The Cove Connection 

 Sunday, March 22nd, 2020

Issue #27

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UPCOMING DATES

• March 17 - April 2nd School Closure; Remote Learning

• April 3- Last day to order yearbooks

• April 6-10 Spring Break, No School

PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

Dear Cove Community,

The teamwork that I observed this week was nothing short of incredible. Every member of our community (parents, students, teachers, custodians, and the entire staff team) stepped up to the challenge of providing distance learning to our students. 

Thank you all for your messages of support and gratitude. Through this common shelter in place experience, everyone is having vastly different experiences in their own homes and families. We are doing our very best to support your children and families while also supporting our own households. Some families want more work and more structure. Others want more flexibility and less work. This is a new cadence, and we are jumping in and adjusting as we go. There is a balance to be found, and I am confident we will find it.

I had the fortune of joining a Zoom call with Lucy Calkins (Readers and Writers Workshop curriculum author) on Thursday. In that call, she said, “Now is better than perfect.” I have taken that to heart. We are in this together and trying out new things---some will not work out and others will be surprisingly successful. As we work through this, I am so grateful to be working with this incredible team!

Importance of Movement: As we all know, movement is a powerful tool - one that we need now more than ever.  A daily dose of positivity and fun exercise will go a long way to make us feel and think better.  Movement is also a powerful tool to relieve anxiety. If you are not doing so already, we strongly encourage you to get up and get moving!  Go for a brisk walk, grab a jump rope (or pretend jump rope), turn on the Cupid Shuffle, or do a little PB & Jelly Time.  

• Cove in Motion is Happening! Join Lisa Shields each morning and get your Coyotes moving. The PTO will post the link on our Facebook Page and also send an Actionaly (formerly Blupods) announcement. Join us live or on your own time!

• And...My School In Motion (the company that brought us Cove in Motion) is working on preparing 15-20 minute movement sessions that they hope to post by next week. In the meantime, some movement routines are currently already available on their Training Page.

Sincerely,

Michelle Walker, Principal

SCHOOL NEWS

We are all missing each other right now, but luckily many wonderful memories made together at the Cove will be captured in the 2019-2020 Yearbook!  So order yours NOW!  And you don’t even have to leave your house to do it! Order online here. The deadline for ordering yearbooks is April 3rd!

From The Art Room Join Ms McKee’s Silly Daily Drawing Cove Art Challenge: For the next 5 days choose 1-5 drawing prompts per day and draw them anywhere! Send photos of your drawings here to be featured in the Cove Connection (parents, siblings, and students are all welcome!)

Draw… 

Animals 

• a coyote singing 

• a whale relaxing 

• a seahorse in a blizzard 

• an octopus reading 

• a mouse driving a car 

• a flamingo teaching 

• a shark playing 

• a butterfly swimming 

• a lizard wearing a backpack 

Food 

• a watermelon in space 

• a skateboarding taco 

• a rainbow of sprinkles

• a cookie with eyelashes 

• a doughnut eating breakfast 

• a flying vegetable 

• a pineapple walking it’s pet 

• a banana reading the paper 

• an egg rollerblading 

• toast doing homework 

• a sandwich doing laundry 

• a flying hot dog 

• a lemon throwing a football 

• a garden of lollipops 

• a house made of candy 

• a mountain of ice cream 

Such Fun! We can’t wait to see what you all draw!

Shelter in Place/ Social Distancing Message from Dr. Geithman We ask that you follow the strictest social distancing practices as much as possible during this uncertain period of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are directing this to students as well as to adults and families. Please do not allow your children to congregate with others.

Parents, we need you to support your children by keeping them AND others safe. The CDC has been clear and common sense requires this response. We all have a responsibility to do our part to make sure we keep the entire community safe. The major reason for LCMSD’s closure is to engage in social distancing. Although families will need to make their own decisions, I advise you strongly to be mindful about gatherings and multiple contacts between students and suggest no congregating in ways that can help spread this virus. Thank you for making this a priority. Working together, and individually, we can help support the health and welfare of the larger community. 

PTO UPDATES

We want to give a BIG Thank You to our principal, teachers, paraprofessionals, learning specialists, parents, and students. While these may be trying times we have heard of FaceTime playdates, Google hangouts, emailing and a whole lot of digital learning. While these aren’t the days we hoped for, we are getting through it and our Cove Community is better together! With love and hand sanitizer, The Cove PTO

SPARK NEWS

Thank You! Online Auction Despite the remote learning and everything else going on, thanks to your support, we raised over $100,000! Information on pick up times for winners to pick up their auction items can be found here.

COMMUNITY NEWS

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

• Viva el Español Spanish Immersion Summer camp at The Cove School

• K-6 Wood Working Class

• Just Dance Academy

• Learn Swordplay 

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