The Cove Connection 

Sunday, May 22th, 2022

Issue #36

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Principal's Message Dear Families,

I hope that many of you will join us for our Tinker/Maker Day on Wednesday, June 1. I am so excited to have our first Tinker Day since 2019!  

Tinkering/ Making is one of our Cove Signature Practices. Tinkering helps develop creativity and innovative thinking. The first step is to allow children to explore materials (Tinker with them) and learn a variety of skills (sewing, coding, hammering, drilling, building circuits, cooking, building, etc). The next step is to give them a provocation or prompt where they use their tinkering skills to create/ design (Make) something. Then, with experience and time to explore their curiosities, children can then begin to ask their own questions and design their own responses or solutions (Innovate).  

During our Tinker/Maker Day, 2nd-5th grade students are set free to explore in their own personal areas of interest. They will have a variety of options to choose from. K-1st graders will participate in tinkering activities in their classrooms that morning. 

We need you!

• Sign up to volunteer 9:00-12:00 (or a portion therein) that day.

  • Your teachers will need volunteers for their stations. Sign up through your teachers for those stations.

  • We also need lots of volunteers for general Tinker Day activities from 9:30-11:30AM. Want to join?  Have a tinker skill to offer? Please sign up here to run a station- no prior experience needed (for most)! Cove Tinker Day Sign up sheet

• Save supplies- bring them in on May 31 or June 1. We need the following: 

  • socks for puppets 

  • fabrics/ yarn

  • old electronics or items that kids can safely disassemble

  • cardboard boxes, egg cartons

  • Masking tape, Duct tape

  • Please send a bag of clean items to share (clean recycling, tubes, any crafty items)

  • No glass!

• Suggest an idea- email info@covepto.org and put it on the sign up sheet.

To generate excitement and give you a sense of what the day brings, here is a link to a 5-minute video with pictures and some video snippets from one of our early Tinker Days in 2016! Here is a link to some great pictures from our last Tinker Day in 2019. 

Sincerely,

Michelle Walker, Principal

Join SPARK Board Next Year Would you like to get more involved with SPARK? We are looking for a secretary, two Hall Co-VP’s and a 2nd person to join Annual Giving as a Co-Chair - all of these positions will sit on the Executive Team, And of course, we have many additional opportunities both big and small for parents to help for the 2022-2023 school year. Email info@SPARKschools.org if interested and learn more here.

Order Left Bank Meals Today for dinner on Monday! May 23rd menu: Chicken paella, mixed greens, steamed broccoli. Feeds a family of four for $50 and 20% will go back to SPARK. To order, click here.

Biz Partner Sage Educators is offering SPARK families $50 (Code: SPARK2022) off one week of its incredibly popular Nature Navigators summer camp! Designed for grades K-5, students will experience the benefits and joys of learning and playing outdoors working on their Naturalist Skills, brushing up on California Geography and Natural History, and getting creative with Nature art. If you’re looking to take outdoor exploration, imagination and fun to the next level this camp is for you. Weekly sessions June 20-August 13; 9am-3pm with early- and after-care options available! Enroll today here. 

Thank you Biz Partner Dipsea Realty A newly formed boutique real estate brokerage founded by two pairs of sisters and the mother of one pair.  Dipsea Realty is the sister company to Seadrift Realty, which has served the Marin community of Stinson Beach since 1973, and this new venture travels over the Dipsea Trail in the greater community of Marin (Sausalito to Novato) to help families find their dream living. 

District News

LCMSD Board Update On May 18 the Board was presented with a Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) draft, an update on the interdistrict permit agreement with Reed Union School District, and a COVID-19 update. LCMSD retirees, Jeanne Felton and Lisa Ferguson were celebrated for their commitment and service to the students of LCMSD. All agendas can be found here.

Measure E The Larkspur-Corte Madera Board of Trustees placed Measure E on the June 7, 2022 ballot. The measure would renew the existing parcel tax at current rates over a ten-year term. This parcel tax generates approximately $4 million in annual funding for The Cove School, Neil Cummins Elementary and Hall Middle School and allows for senior exemptions. For more information on Measure E please review the County of Marin Voter Information Guide.

Community News

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

• Corte Madera Park & Rec Happening

• Derby Den Camp is Back this Summer!

• Broadway Training Programs 

• Steve and Kate’s Camp

• Camp Integem is the #1 AR Camp for K-12 students

• Super Cool Summer School

• Gun Buy Back Program

• Top Drives Sports Baseball Teams & Camps

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