Dear Covington Parents & Community Members,

I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and enjoyed the warm weather. We have just 12 more days of school left this year, yet a great deal of celebratory events you won't want to miss!

This Friday, May 30th we have a busy day of celebrations:

8:00am Volunteer Breakfast
8:40am PTA Awards
4-7pm Multicultural Festival

- At 8:00 am all parents are invited into our Multi for a delicious breakfast prepared and organized by our staff.

- At 8:40, immediately after the flag assembly, our PTA will be presenting awards to our amazing volunteers.

- From 4-7pm our school blacktop will be transformed into an international celebration. Our families have been hard at work organizing over 18 different booths representing many different countries with food, activities, performances, an international parade and a photo booth where kids can take pictures for free.

All are guaranteed a great time this Friday and our staff and PTA hopes to see you at any or all of the events this Friday.

Next week the K-3 Concert takes place on Wednesday, June 4th, at 10:30am.

Friday, June 6th, is our traditional Field Day and minimum day.

Thank you for your ongoing support and I look forward to seeing you this week!

Kind Regards,
Erin S. Green

Upcoming Important Dates:

May 30 – PTA Volunteer Breakfast
May 30 – Spirit Day: International Day
May 30 – Covington Multicultural Fair, 4pm-7pm
June 4 – Primary (K-3) Music Concert 10:30am-11:30am
June 6 – Field Day/Minimum Day
June 12 – Last Day of School
Early start at 8:15am
6th Grade Promotion
Minimum Day – 11:15am Dismissal For All!
August 20 – First day of School!

­­­­­­­­­Multicultural Festival, this Friday, May 30th, 4-7p. Covington playground!!! Don't miss the fun! Food, activities, entertainment, photo booth, and other booths representing 18 countries! Come dressed in a cultural outfit or wear a soccer jersey representing your family's country :-) this is a free PTA sponsored event.

Hot Lunch Survey: Covington is considering switching Hot Lunch vendors next year. It's not a decision taken lightly and we need your input. Please take a moment to fill out the brief survey here: http://tinyurl.com/mrg5sb5. Thank you!

Field Day 2014 is quickly approaching. On Friday, June 6th from 10:00 - 12:00 all students will be participating in Field Day. If you haven't had much of a chance to volunteer this year, this is the event for you! Field Day is a fun filled two-hour event where the children participate in tons of games, face painting and a blow-up obstacle course. We need your help to make Field Day a success. Please sign up on the Google doc found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VUa_Xxjl6rEQIwJYJ4m-eV3Jw-UnicPCfKDtkwddc8c/edit?usp=sharing

We need at least two parents from each class to help!! Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you! Louanne Gonzalez (louannegonzalez@gmail.com)

Hello ladies: The little black dress is almost sold out! Join us on Saturday May 31st. 7-11pm at Jenny's house (318 S. Gordon Way). Email me (ughosheh@gmail.com) if interested. Ladies Only Night! Dust off your stilettos and deck yourself out in your favorite little black dress to party with 50 other fabu- lous ladies for an end of year party. Enjoy yummy cocktails and tantalizing Dish Dash food. We even have a great DJ to get us all dancing (after a few cocktails-of course!) Relax and let your hair down with the ladies with a much-earned night off. Be prepared because we are going to celebrate!
Restrictions: Limit 50.

Dodge Ball Derby with Mr. Heeb. Kids, join our wonderful Mr. Heeb for an action-packed game of dodge ball! This Covington fundraiser is being held on Thursday, June 5th right after school in the green field. The game for 1st - 3rd graders happens from 2:30 - 3:30; the game for 4th - 6th graders runs from 2:45 - 3:45. Cost is $30 per student. Please email sonia_brunner@yahoo.com if your child is interested in joining. Spots are limited.

The School Toolbox Store is Open! To enhance the educational experience of all of our students, we are requesting sufficient donations of supplies and materials to provide for each child at Covington. We do this through your online orders to School Toolbox. Our online School Tool Box store is now open for the 2014-2015 school year! The store will remain open until June 6, 2014. Orders are online only. School toolboxes are $60 for First Grade, $75 for Fifth Grade, and $70 for all other grades. Toolboxes include all the supplies your teachers have requested. Toolboxes are offered as a convenience to families wishing to donate school supplies to their child's classroom and supplies are purchased in bulk, which saves costs. School Toolbox also donates a meal through "Feed My Starving Children" for each toolbox sold. So please go online to www.schooltoolbox.com and order today!! Just register at the website and follow the easy instructions. Thank you from Covington PTA!

MEDICATIONS AT SCHOOL – Please pick up your child's medications from the office on June 12- the last day of school.

Medications cannot be stored over the summer. If your child is attending summer school, please pick up their medications and paperwork and take them to summer school on the first day. Thank you! Any questions: please email us. Thank you kindly,

Monica Sidher RN, BSN, BA District Nurse

Last day of school celebration! Parents, just like last year, let's host an end of the year celebration for the kids as they walk up the hallways for dismissal. At the end of the two hallways there will be a "Welcome Summer" sign that the kids can walk through/under. We, parents, will line the corridors wearing our craziest hats, glasses, mardi-gras beads, boas, hawaiian shirts, blowing bubbles, noise makers, musical instruments, spray bottles, whatever you want to do/bring to be crazy. You get the picture? While the kids walk up the hall we'll cheer, blow bubbles, use spray bottles, basically make lots of noise and fools of ourselves. In 2013, this proved to be a fun, memorable last day of school send-off, not only for our wonderful kids but a great time for the parents. Once through the "corridor of crazy" the kids can grab a free Otter Pop before they head off to summer.

So if you're planning to be at 11:15am pick-up, arrive a few minutes early (with all your party-garb) and get ready to make some fun memories for our students.

If your child attends CCLC, you might tell your child (& his/her teacher) they can walk up, through the corridor on the last day and then head to CCLC from there. Miss Lori is aware of the celebration, so she knows their arrival might be delayed.

Hope you're in! Questions... Jen Roy McGuigan 650.248.9532

Lost & Found – Claim your items before the last day of school. Everything left here will be donate on June 13th!

First Annual Great Grizzly Fun Run on Saturday, May 31!! This will be the first school sponsored fun run in all of Los Altos and it will be a terrific community-building event. We are welcoming all of our local elementary schools to participate with us, as well as neighbors and friends and family. This 5k (3.1 mile) run/walk will take place in the beautiful hills around our school and will end at our upper field with refreshments, prizes, smaller runs for the younger kids and a visit from our local fire department. Strollers, dogs, wagons are all welcome! All proceeds from this run will go directly to the LAEF - benefiting all of our district's wonderful schools.

Hope to see you there. You can register and find more details here:

http://www.active.com/los-altos-hills-ca/running/distance-running-races/gardner-grizzly-fun-run-2014

Thank you LAEF donors! This year LAEF made its largest grant in the history of the foundation: $3.2 million. Your donations supported programs that parents in our district value highly: art, PE, libraries, Living Classroom, music, reduced class sizes, literacy aides, junior high elective choices, and innovative new programs such as the STEM labs and instructional/curriculum coaches for teachers. For 32 years the parents of Los Altos School District have remained committed to excellent education and a strong community through support of the Los Altos Educational Foundation. From the 4,600+ students enrolled in our nine schools this year, THANK YOU!

District & Community News: http://www.lasdk8.org/PDF_Files/Current_School_News.pdf

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