The Cove Connection

Sunday, January 19th, 2020

Issue #19

UPCOMING DATES

January 20th - No School - MLK Holiday
January 23rd- Pajama Day and 2nd Readathon Assembly
January 23rd- Cove School Tour for Incoming Families, 9:00am
January 23rd- School Site Council Meeting, 3:30-5:00pm, Cove Conference Rm
January 27th- Ms. O’Reilly’s Class Music Share, 11:45am, Music Room
January 28th- Ms. Long’s Class Music Share, 9:35am, Music Room
January 29th- LCMSD Special Board Meeting - Budget Study Session, 6:00pm-8:00pm, Hall Library
January 30th- Dress as Your Favorite Storybook Character Day & 3rd Readathon Assembly
January 30th- Ms. Cortright’s 1st Grade Music Share, 1:20pm, Music Room
February 3rd-7th-1:15pm Early Dismissal Week for Reading Assessments
February 4th - Coffee w/Brett 8:15am - 9:15am, Room 20
February 10th- LCAP Committee Meeting 3:30pm-5:00pm, Hall Rm. 301
February 12th- LCMSD Board Meeting- Open Session, 6:00pm-9:00pm, Hall Library
February 14th- DELAC Leadership Team Meeting 9:00am-10:00am, Hall Room #401
February 17th-February 21st- No School- Mid-Winter Break

PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

Our Cove Teachers and Staff have the Coolest Swag! A Huge THANK YOU to everyone for helping gift our teachers and staff their new Cove hoodies. They love them and so appreciate the gesture! If you would like to order Cove merchandise for yourself or someone you love, click here.

Progress Reporting at Cove

Our goal at Cove is for you to understand how your child is doing and what we (student, parent, teacher) can do to help further their growth.

As a school, we share progress more formally at the following checkpoints:

for different classes. The key criteria for success? That you understand how your child is doing and what the student, you as parents and the teacher can do to help further their growth! Your teacher will communicate to you whether they will be holding conferences or sending home progress reports. Your conference or progress report will include qualitative and quantitative data on your child’s progress toward the most essential standards.

You can find more information about Progress Reporting at Cove in this letter. We value you as partners in your child’s learning and will ask for feedback about our progress reporting in early March. Thank you for your engagement!

Sincerely,

Michelle Walker, Principal

SCHOOL NEWS

Our school just finished up our first full week of fundraising for The Cove Readathon! Remember, the Readathon is the primary fundraiser for the Cove PTO; raising money that is exclusively for our school! For class standings (there are awesome class incentive prizes!) click here.

We want 100% participation in both minutes read and donations raised. We have awesome prizes for both!

A few FAQs:

Do minutes spent reading during class time count toward minute logs? No. However, reading during recess does count
Does listening to audiobooks count towards my minute logs? New this year-Yes!
Can I have a paper reading log to log my minutes? Yes! You can print one here. Remember, each Tuesday you will receive a Blupods activity asking you to enter weekly minutes read.

For more information about our Cove Readathon, please visit The Cove Readathon! We can do this for our school!

Safe Routes 20th Anniversary! Check it out here for updates and great tips!

PTO UPDATES

More Books = More Reading! Did you know our public library has an amazing app, like Amazon’s bookstore but free? Scan the barcode on any book, and a couple of days later pick it up on the library’s will-call shelf. It finds the book anywhere in Marin, and they truck it to your preferred library.

You can also see which books are due soon and renew them from your phone, a real lifesaver when you’re busy parenting. And of course you can browse and search.

Here are the links to use:

iOS; Android; On a computer

SPARK NEWS

Save the Date Spring Events

Art Show Feb 7-12
Spring Online Auction: March 11-17
Spring Spotlight Gala: May 2

SPARK Art Show The show will feature local artists and showcase LCMSD student art at our pop-up gallery at the Town Center and run from February 8th-12th from 12:00pm-5:00pm. An Opening Night event will be held on February 7th from 5:30-8:30pm.

NEW! Registration deadline extended to January 27
Learn more about submissions, eligibility and how you can help here
Contact artshow@SPARKschools.com with questions.

Spring Online Auction Needs Volunteers

Join the auction solicitations team and help with donations.We'll provide you with the forms, email script and contact information.
Do you own a local business, vacation home or are willing to make a wine donation? Fill out an online auction donation form here.
Parent-hosted parties are always popular and a great way to raise money for our schools.Got an idea for a sign up party? We’d love to hear from you! Learn more here.
Contact info@SPARKschools.org if interested in helping with any these events

Coupons for Free Shakes from Shake Shack! November’s Giving Day Participation Challenge was a success, now it’s time to celebrate! At the request of Shake Shack, the distribution schedule is as follows: Cove School was the week of 1/13, Neil Cummins will be this week and Hall the week of 1/27. Redeem at Larkspur location only.

LCMSD UPDATES

At the January 15th Board Meeting Mr. Saibel, Hall Principal, presented on standards-based grading, Ms. Rigney shared the 2018-19 audit that revealed no significant findings, students participating in Hall’s leadership program were celebrated, and the school accountability report cards (SARCs) were approved. Here is the full agenda. The January 29th meeting will consist of a Board Budget Study Session. Please note, reductions are not anticipated.

COMMUNITY NEWS

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

After School Classes at The Cove
Just Dance Academy Classes in Corte Madera
Corte Madera Parks & Recreation Brochure for Winter/ Spring
Measure B

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