The Cove Connection 

 Sunday, April 26th, 2020

Issue #30

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UPCOMING DATES

• March 17 - June 11 School Closure; Remote Learning 

• All Mondays-  Lunch Pick-Up, Hall Middle School, 11am-12pm

  • Para información sobre almuerzos sin costo clickee aquí

• April 28th, Tuesday- 8-11am

  • Return Library Books in the box outside of school

  • Lost and Found Accessible outside

  • Teacher Boxes of materials outside- optional, only if your teacher emailed you

• All Fridays- Cove Zoom Assembly, 12:00pm

• May 2- SPARK Virtual Spring Spotlight Gala, 8pm

• May 4-8th- Teacher Appreciation Week- Save The Date 

• May 25th- Memorial Day Observed, No School

PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

Teacher Appreciation Week, May 4-8th. 

While teacher appreciation week this year will look different, we still plan to celebrate our amazing and dedicated teachers and staff! The PTO will be using funds from their budget to provide each teacher and staff member with a token gift card. 

We are asking for each family to help us create a slideshow video for our school! We plan to show this at a Friday’s Assembly (May 8) during Teacher Appreciation Week. Add a photo of your family with a poster here. In addition to your class teacher, please add names of teachers, specialists, paraprofessionals etc. Here is a complete list of teachers and staff that your children know and love. 

Of course, we encourage you and your children to send emails of thanks and to celebrate your teacher in any additional ways you wish! Let’s show our appreciation!

Virtual Meeting Expectations This is an important document that I am asking you to review together with your child(ren): Virtual Meeting Expectations. We continue to hear concerns from parents, students, and staff about online behavior and Zoom/Google Hangout protocols. Please be sure to take the time to review these Virtual Meeting Expectations that apply to both full class and small group virtual meetings.

Wishing you health, safety, and connection,

Michelle Walker, Principal

SCHOOL NEWS

April is Autism Awareness Month! At Friday’s assembly, students learned about autism. This comic strip explains how to understand the Autism Spectrum. It was shared by one of our Cove families. You can also watch this video to learn more about Autism.

Sora is here! The library staff has been busy getting an online library up and running for our third - fifth-grade students. This is one elementary online library that students from both elementary sites will access. We have been adding online books and creating Sora accounts for our third - fifth-grade students. An additional bonus is that Sora is allowing additional access in addition to LCMSD’s purchased content. Ms. King will be teaching students how to access Sora in her lessons this week!

LCMSD Lunch Service: All LCMSD students are able to receive lunch at no cost. Mondays at Hall Middle School from 11-12pm. No prior ordering required.For more information click here.

Para información sobre almuerzos sin costo clickee aquí *Para ayuda en español por favor contacte a Florencia Frankenberg castelanellif@yahoo.com or617-971-7785. 

PTO UPDATES

We miss everyone! While we’re apart let’s try and stay together. Visit our website and Friend us on Facebook and stay in touch! Remember, Cove in Motion is still happening! Visit our PTO Facebook Page to join in. HUGE thanks to Lisa Shields for keeping our Coyotes moving!

Thank you to all our teachers and staff...Cove Teacher Appreciation Week,May 4th-8th. Please add your photos holding posters here! The PTO is purchasing gift cards for all teachers and staff. Of course please feel free to show appreciation any way you are able!

Nominations for the 2020-2021 Cove PTO Executive Board are Open!Interested in joining us? We promise we’re fun!  Please lick here to read a letter from the Board and a full description of each position. If you would like to talk about your interest and/or to nominate a Cove parent for a Board position, please contact incoming PTO President, Kristen Slowe

SPARK NEWS

Support our teachers: Now more than ever, SPARK needs your help. Reaching the $1.5M fundraising goal is critical this year, as SPARK provides essential funding for teacher salaries and benefits. With approximately $300K still to raise in this school year, please consider making a monetary donation to the Annual Giving Campaign if you haven’t already.

SPARK Virtual Spring Spotlight Tune in the evening of May 2nd to support SPARK as we come together and fund the gap. This online event will feature a Live Auction, Paddle Raise, comedy, musical acts and appearances by local celebrities. The fun starts at 8pm - and there’s no ticket to buy and you don’t need to get out your of your jammies! Zoom link will be sent District-wide byFriday, May 1st. More details here. 

Sign up Party Updates Teacher Parties have been canceled for the 2019-2020 school year.  If you would like to request a refund for these parties, please fill out this form here  

If you have been notified that a grade level hike has been canceled, you may also request a refund here.

We are in the process of contacting hosts of parent hosted parties to find out whether they will be rescheduling their parties or canceling them and as soon as this is complete we will communicate that to guests. Thank you for your patience!

COMMUNITY NEWS

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

• Virtual Capoeira Classes for Everyone

• Community Assistance for Marin’s Vulnerable Populations

• Comcast offering Free WIFI

• Marin County Free Library Links

• The Marin County Free Library’s Kids at Home Series 

• Town of Corte Madera Virtual Recreation & Resource Point

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ABOUT THE COVE CONNECTION The Cove Connection is a digital bulletin published by the CovePTO and distributed to The Cove School community each Sunday via email. To submit content to the Cove Connection, please email info@covepto.org. To receive a subscription to The Cove Connection, or to change your email address, send a note to  covesecretaries@lcmschools.org.