The Cove Connection

Sunday, September 29th, 2019

Issue #6

UPCOMING DATES

October 2- Walk and Roll To School Day
October 2- Cove PTO Board meeting, 8:30am-9:45am Cove Library
October 2-4- 5th Grade Outdoor Science Education
October 3- School Site Council Meeting, 3:30pm, Cove Conf. Rm
October 7- SPARK Meeting,7:30pm-9:00pm, Hall Library
October 9- No School
October 10- Cove Fall Family Picnic, 5:00pm-7:00pm, Cove Blacktop
October 11- Coffee with Principal Walker, 8:15am
Oct 14-18- Conference Week, Early 1:15 Dismissal
Oct 14-18- Scholastic Book Fair, Cove Library
October 17- CA Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

International Walk and Roll To School Day is This Wednesday And...It’s the Final Day of The Green Sneaker Challenge! Our Goal: NO cars in the loop on Wednesday

The Cove School is joining millions worldwide for the International Walk and Roll to School Day! Our Safe Routes to School team has organized ways for everyone to participate- whether you live close or far!

Bike, Scoot or Walk from the neighborhood.
Bike train from Larkspur- meet Mrs. Walker and Safe Routes Parent volunteer Greg Ulin for the bike train at the Tamal Vista Blvd & Wornum Drive intersection at 7:35am.
Park and Walk! You can park in the neighborhood and walk a couple of blocks. This still counts as a green route to school. See map here for ideas.
Try the bus!

Our 5th graders will be leaving for Outdoor Science Education on Wednesday so they will have extra items. Perhaps you could send those items in a “luggage” carpool with another family!

Our table will be out in the courtyard and we hope to see you all walking, rolling, scootering, cartwheeling, carpooling...Any green way! Children who travel a "green way" to school get stamps on their cards for the big raffle! Any number of stamps qualifies you for a small prize, or fill out your whole card and enter the raffle to win a new scooter or some of our other Safe Routes prizes.

Let's fill up the sidewalks and bike racks as much as possible this school year. Thank you for teaching your child the importance of green travel --- it's a lifelong lesson!

SCHOOL NEWS

The Cove Site Council is pleased to welcome new parent member Jessica Donehower. You can read her bio here. She brings an excellent skill set and energy to our council. We have our first meeting this Thursday in the conference room and anyone is welcome to join us as a member of the public!

On Wednesday, Oct 9, there is no school. This is a workday for teachers. They will be busy preparing meaningful curriculum for your children!

Halloween is another day of learning at Cove. We are looking forward to a fun and safe celebration on Thursday, October 31st. Here are details about what is and is not allowed at Cove on Halloween: All students in grades K- 5 may wear costumes that do not interfere with their learning, No blood/ gore, weapons, face paint, masks, and no props/accessories allowed in school. Please make sure that costumes are age-appropriate for K-5 and respectful of different cultures. This is a note about our Kindergarten Halloween Parade.

Calling All 5th Grade Artists - Announcing the 2019-2020 Cove School Yearbook Cover Design Contest! The winning entry will appear on the front of the yearbook and the winner will receive a free yearbook. All entries due in the office by 3pm, Friday, October 25th and voting will take place at lunchtime on Thursday, November 7th. The winner will be announced in June. All 5th grade students will receive official rules in their classrooms this week. This year's yearbook theme is: "Not All Superheros Wear Capes" – The things that make us different, those are our superpowers. For more information email: coveyearbook@gmail.com.

PTO UPDATES

The Cove School’s Annual Fall Family Picnic (& Costume Party!) is Thursday, October 10th, 5pm-7pm. Fun event times on the blacktop: 5:30pm Music with Megan Schoenbohm and 6:00pm Zumba led by our own Lisa Shields! Additional Activities include: Steve & Kate’s Camp Games, Face Painting, Spirit Wear sale, Magic and more! Dinner by the delicious Abel’s Mexican Food Truck (cash only), plus treats for sale by The Cotton Candy Girl. For planning purposes, kindly RSVP in advance. Questions contact Kari Stiffler, Cove PTO VP, Events. Join our Cove Community and Don’t Miss the Fun!

Good Eggs Fundraiser is back for the month of October. To join, visit here, enter our code coveschool20 and place your first order. Shop for produce, meat and fish, baked goods, easy dinner kits, and more –– delivered same-day. Be one of the first 5 new families to join our fundraiser this week (10/1-10/6) and win a flower bouquet from Good Eggs!

Spirit Wear Fridays are Back! Buy online anytime- Click here to purchase from our store on Zazzle.

SPARK NEWS

Annual Giving Did you know that money raised this year goes directly to funding programs and materials for this school year? Make your 2019-2020 donation online with a single payment, automatic monthly installments or by pledging now and paying later.

Biz Partner Opportunity Learn about becoming a Biz partner here. Deadline is Friday, October 4th, 2019.

SPARK Needs Volunteers Like You There’s a lot that goes on to raise $1.5M for our three schools and support the Foundation’s mission of providing a quality education for our kids. We need your help to make it happen! Learn about volunteer opportunities here.

Are you an expert on Excel? SPARK has a small short term project for someone who knows their way around a spreadsheet merging data fields for the SPARK directory. Please contact info@SPARKschools.org if you are interested.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Please click link to view Community News that includes updates from:

Kids Coding Class
Registration for St. Patrick CYO Basketball
The North Bay Science Discovery Day
An Evening With David and Nic Sheff, local authors of Beautiful Boy and Tweak, moderated by Michael Krasny of KQED
Motherload Screening
Dance with Cove in Motion’s Lisa Moore Shields at PAAM

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