The Cove Connection 

 Sunday, March 8th, 2020

Issue #25

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UPCOMING DATES

• March 10- LCMSD Board Meeting - Open Session, 6:00pm-9:00pm, Hall Library

• March 11- PTO Board Meeting, 8:30-9:30am, Library

• March 11- 2nd Grade Music Concert,11:45-12:30, Cove Gallery 

• March 11- Lunchtime Garden Club, Grades 3-5, 12:30pm, Cove Garden

• March 11-17 SPARK Spring Online Auction Open

• March 12- Site Council Meeting, 3:30pm-5:00pm

• March 12- Frozen Jr. Derby Den, 6:00pm doors open, 6:30pm show, Cove Gallery Stage

• March 13- School Tour for Incoming/New Families, 9:00-10:00am 

• March 16 - No School - Professional Development Day for Teachers

• March 18- Coffee With Principal Walker, 8:30am, Music Room

• March 20- Cove Tinker Day 

• April 2- Cove Open House, 6:00pm-7:30pm

• April 3- Deadline to order Cove 2019-2020 Yearbooks

• April 3- Early Dismissal, 1:15pm

PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

Dear Families,

Have you ever been to a Maker Faire?  Imagine one at your child’s very own school! Our famous Tinker Day is just around the corner...just 2 weeks away!Here are pictures from last year’s Tinker Day to give you a picture of what it looks like.

On Friday, March 20th from 9:30am-11:30am our school transforms into a Tinker/Maker Fair for 2nd-5th grade students.  K-1st grade students will be tinkering in their classrooms. 

We need your help!  Here’s what you can do:

• Volunteer by completing this form here.  Lots of helping hands needed!  This is separate from volunteering at your child’s classroom station (teachers are requesting those volunteers separately).

• Collect useable treasures for our general tinkering area.  Please send a bag of items (clean recycling, tubes, any crafty items) to school with your child on the morning of Friday, March 20 (not earlier, please). They should leave these items on the painted earth in the center of the courtyard on Wednesday morning. 

• Contact Diana Nay (dnay@lcmschools.org)  if you have items you can donate such as fabric, masking tape, glue guns, or anything else that might be used for tinkering! We need the following items: socks for puppets,fabrics, old electronics or items that kids can disassemble, cardboard boxes.

This event takes a village. The kids will forever remember Tinker/Maker Day.  Please help make it happen! This event is made possible through your SPARK donations. THANK YOU!

Sincerely,

Michelle Walker, Principal 

Chris and Kristen Slowe, Parent Tinker Day Coordinators

School News

At last week’s assembly, we kicked off The Great Kindness Challenge. To promote kindness, Student Council will be collecting “Kind Coins for Mexico” which is this year’s focus project. Any coins your child brings in will go toward building a school and friendship center in Tijuana, Mexico. We will also be celebrating kindness with a series of Spirit Days:

• Monday: Ocean of Kindness Day- wear your favorite shade of blue

• Tuesday: Let Kindness Shine Day- wear sparkles, shiny things, bright or neon colors

• Wednesday: Crazy for Kindness Day-wear crazy hair, hats, or crazy socks

• Thursday: Team Kindness Day-wear sports team attire

• Friday: Dream of Kindness Day-wear pajamas

Cove 2019-2020 Yearbook On Sale Now! Order forms will be sent home with your student shortly. You may also order online here. Yearbooks will be delivered to students who order them in class. Deadline for ordering yearbooks is April 3rd!

The Art Room is looking for donations of clean or unused large brown grocery bags to send artwork home by the end of the year! Bags may be dropped off at the office or the art room from now through the last week of school. Thank you for all of your support, Ms.McKee 

Derby Den's Production of FROZEN Jr. is coming to our Gallery StageThursday, March 12th, 6:30pm! General Admission tickets sold at the door and are $7 (cash only) per person. Doors open at 6pm. Show begins promptly at 6:30pm. 

LCMSD Board Updates During the February 12th, 2020 Board Meeting teachers and staff members shared the impact of last year’s budget reductions on their current work. The Board and District will continue working with staff on collaboratively identifying solutions. The Board took action to approve the revised 2020-21 and 2021-22 calendars, as well as the installation of cameras at all school sites. Law enforcement, Verkada (camera company), and insurance providers worked with our Director of Facilities to identify locations wherecameras will be installed. The next Board Meeting is scheduled for March 10th. The second interim budget and physical fitness test results will be presented. For specifics on the state of the LCMSD budget, please see the February newsletter here. 

PTO UPDATES

• The Variety Show was a Smashing Success! It was amazing to see so many talented performers give it their all in front of their family and friends! A big “Thank You” to our Variety Show team Elena O’Brien, Amber Smith-Gaulding and emcees Jason Zwerner and Josh Peterson -- you made it happen this year! The show could not have gone on without our MANY volunteers-- check out this amazing list of stage hands and helpers!

SPARK NEWS

Spring Online Auction Opens Wednesday, March 11 at 12pm. From kids camps and activities, dining, sports and entertainment, beauty, health and fitness and of course, the much-loved parent-hosted and teacher and staff-hosted parties, there’s something for everyone!. Sign up parties are first-come, first-serve so don’t miss out!  Last year this event raised more than $100K for our schools, so we encourage everyone to bid high and bid often - it’s for the kids! More information can be found here. 

All About Sign-Up Parties The online auction features many fun social opportunities while raising money for our schools! These parties range from fitness-based activities (Mountain Biking, Hiking or Yoga to name a few) and interests (i.e cooking, or ping-pong) to traditional cocktail or dinner parties and casual gatherings. Spots are available on a first-come-first-serve basis and the cost is at a set-price. Many of these parties can sell out quickly, so make sure you’re in the know! 

Save the Date! May 2nd, 2020 is the SPARK 40th Anniversary Ruby Ball!Featuring a Live Auction, Paddle Raise, dinner and dancing, this is our biggest fundraising event of the year! Exhibit Hall, Civic Center, 6:00pm-11:00pm. 

Annual Giving We’re inching towards our year-end goal of $1.5M and are asking families to make their Annual Giving donation if they have not done so yet. We’re so grateful to pledges received during the fall participation challenge and have begun our outreach to collect those pledges that are due now. Money raised this year funds programs this year. We appreciate donations of any amount! Make a donation here. 

COMMUNITY NEWS

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

• Spanish Immersion Summer Camps with Viva el Español at The Cove School

• K-6 Wood Working Class

• Just Dance Academy

• Learn Swordplay 

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