The Cove Connection

Sunday, February 2nd, 2020

Issue #21

UPCOMING DATES

February 3rd-7th-1:15pm Early Dismissal Week for Assessments
February 4th - Coffee with Brett 8:15am - 9:15am, Room 20
February 4th- Danielle Svetcov Author Visit at The Cove, 4th & 5th Grades 8:15am
February 5th- Global School Play Day
February 7th- 100th Day of School
February 7th- SPARK Art Show Opening Night, Town Center, Suite #325 5:30pm-8:30pm
February 10th- LCAP Committee Meeting 3:30pm-5:00pm, Hall Rm. 301
February 10-SPARK Board Meeting, 7:30pm - 9:00pm, Hall Library (Note date change)
February 12th- Walk & Roll Wednesday
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

Cove will be participating in the 6th Annual Global School Play Day (#GSPD2020) on Wednesday, February 5. Students will engage in play with toys that do NOT require batteries or electricity. No devices. Teachers/ Adults don't organize anything for students, don't tell students how to play with the toys/games, and don't interfere with students unless they see something unsafe. Let’s give the gift of learning through play to our students!

More and more research underscores the critical importance of play in the emotional, social, intellectual and physical development of children - including this study from 2018 from the American Association of Pediatrics. Cove (along with Hall Middle School and Neil Cummins) has embraced this for years - and on Wednesday, February 5, our district will celebrate the 6th annual Global School Play Day along with children from around the globe. This is also being officially adopted by the Marin County Office of Education. Last year over a half-million kids participated in 72 countries; This year the projection is one million. Check out the "play-fomercial" that Hall’s Leadership students created to inspire schools locally and globally to take part!

SCHOOL NEWS

Congratulations to Ms. Maher’s Class! Two weeks in a row! They are on fire! They read the most minutes last week-- can you believe these 25 students read a whopping a total of 9,305 minutes! Their class wins the Week 2 popsicle party!

We are in the Homestretch! This is our last week tracking minutes and donations are due Monday, February 10th. Remember, there are prizes for each grade, for individual classes, for the teachers and individuals. When you read and raise, we all win!

Our goal of $70,000 remains unchanged from last year, but we need you to help get us there! The Cove PTO cannot do all we do for our children and school alone! Visit our Readathon Donation Page to find your child and our visit PTO Readathon Page for FAQs and prizes!

Post and share your child’s 99Pledges page —think texting friends and family, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!
Help your child ask family, friends, neighbors, or your coworkers to donate by sending them their 99Pledges page link.
Encourage your child to read, read, and read some more!
Encourage your child to write thank you notes to family and friends who sponsored them.
Honesty! While it’s tempting for students to inflate the number of minutes read, we hope parents can use this as a valuable opportunity to teach the importance of honest, hard work.

No after school classes during early dismissal week, February 3rd-7th due to the assessment schedule. Viva Espanol will be holding classes since they do not meet in a classroom.

Valentine’s Day Many classes will be celebrating Valentine’s Day on Friday, February 14th. Please respect any communications from your child’s teacher/s around classroom celebrations. Students are welcome to bring Valentine’s cards with pencils, colorful erasers, stickers, tattoos, etc…but no candy or food items please! Here are more ideas if you are interested.

From the Cove Garden Last week students created bags of kale and lettuces for our students to take home and enjoy. What a local, fresh and healthy thing!

Help our Garden When you shop at Sloat Garden Center during their Growing up Green Week, February 7th - 16th, mention the Cove School and a portion of the sales goes back to our garden!

Coffee with Brett – Parent Feedback Session: LCAP Join Dr. Geithman and Paula Rigney to share your feedback on LCMSD's goals. Identifying district strengths and areas of growth will help inform us as we draft the 2020-23 Local Accountability Control Plan (LCAP). Please feel free to join any of the three sessions next week. All sessions are from 8:30-9:30 AM.

Tuesday 2/4 Cove Library
Thursday 2/6 Neil Cummins A2
Friday 2/7 Hall Room 401

PTO UPDATES

Variety Show Be sure to Save the Date and watch our talented students shine on Friday, March 6th. More details to follow.

Our Readers are going strong for our Cove PTO Readathon! Here are some helpful links: Cove Fundraising Site and our Readathon Website

SPARK NEWS

The SPARK Art Show is here! Opening Night is this Friday, February 7th, 5:30pm-8:30pm at our pop-up gallery at the Town Center, Suite #325. The show will be open February 8th-12th from 12-5pm every day and features local artists and LCMSD student art!

Spring Online Auction is March 11-17 and Needs Volunteers

Solicitations: We'll provide you with the forms, email form letter and contact information.
Donations: Do you own a local business, vacation home or are willing to make a wine donation? Fill out an online auction donation form here.
Contact info@SPARKschools.org if interested in helping with any these events

SPARK Board Meeting Date Change Monday, February 10th, 7:30pm-9:00pm at the Hall Middle School Library.

COMMUNITY NEWS

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Measure B
Larkspur Library Presents: Craft Workshop - Pop-up Cards!
5G Mid-Winter Break Camp- Sign up now!

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