Parents of rising kindergarteners are invited to join the Lemon Road kindergarten teachers for our annual kindergarten orientation on Monday, April 26th at 9:30 AM. As this is a virtual event, we are planning an in-person opportunity for our future kindergarteners to tour the building and meet school staff in August. Parents can enter the BBCU room by clicking this link. Please note, we have pushed our start time to 9:30 to allow our kindergarten team to support our current Monday Morning Meetings.

Be sure you have registered your child for Kindergarten! Completion will help us with placement information and ensure that we have proper staffing based on enrollment. To ensure that you receive future communications, we encourage you to self-enroll and subscribe to News You Choose and select Lemon Road.  We look forward to seeing and meeting your child in 2021-2022. Please share the kindergarten orientation information with any neighbors who may have kindergarten aged children. 

Every year, our staff collaborates regarding student placements for the next school year.  This year, we had many factors that weighed into the decision making process.  Please note that we continue to take into consideration many factors such as friendships, gender, academics and personalities. You may choose to provide input for the next school year, but please note that we cannot make guarantees but will take your information under consideration. The google form to provide input is here.  If you haven’t already, please click this link to let us know your child’s plans for the 2021 – 2022 school year and pass this link onto any family with a new student OR a child ready for Kindergarten!  Thank you for your input!

The Lemon Road Read-a-Thon starts Monday, April 12! If you haven’t activated your reader’s account yet, please be sure to do so as soon as possible by clicking this link and following the simple instructions. 

Along with raising funds to buy books for the school and classroom libraries, there will be individual, class, and school rewards for participation. 

Prizes: For every dollar your student raises, they will receive 15% in their Read-a-Thon account to buy items from the prize store. Additionally, the PTA will offer a prize for the student per grade who reads the most minutes and the student per grade who raises the most money. The class that collectively reads the most minutes per grade will win a virtual lunch bunch with the participating specialist of their choice. Lastly, look for Mrs. Castillo and Mr. Birge to up the ante by offering to do something extra special and crazy if we can raise $5,000 and to take it over the top if we raise $10,000! 

Nightly Read-Alouds: We don’t want to leave our wonderful teachers out so they are getting in on the fun too by hosting nightly read-alouds. We know how much all the students miss their teachers and to make this even more special, each grade will get one read-aloud with the teaching team from their PRIOR year. This means if your child is in first grade, the kindergarten teachers will read to them, the first-grade teachers will read to the second-grade students, and so on. Kindergarten students will be read to by our sixth-grade team. Read-alouds will take place at 7:00 PM and will be accessed through your student’s Monday morning meeting/grade-level special link on Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. See the full schedule below. 

We hope EVERYONE participates in this great event and helps us raise money for this great cause. If you have any questions reach out to the PTA at lemonroadpta@gmail.com.

The Thomas Jefferson PTSA Diversity Committee is pleased to announce it will be hosting a virtual event on May 15, 2021, an online virtual conference featuring several area STEM education providers, including those that offer free and reduced fee services for low-income households. The purpose of this event is to inform the community of those services available for aspiring TJ candidates currently in Elementary and Middle School.

Some of the key providers at this event include:

Ø  Black Student Fund

Ø  Girls Who Math

Ø  Junior Scholars

Ø  Humanitas4All

Ø  Huntington Learning Center

Ø  Dr. Eddie Neal

Ø  Cathy Colglazier

Ø  And more…….

Event Details

When: May 15, 2021 08:00 AM – 4:00PM EST

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ocOGspj0iGNbRRum6ZFebdy22lLcAVpLR

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Next week, we'll learn about fairness. For a 1-page character card overview, click here. And, for P2 for Families (password: P2), click here.  Fairness means you believe that all people have value. You approach situations with an unbiased mindset and treat everyone with respect.  ​​​Fairness combines both the head and the heart. It is the product of moral judgment – the process by which people determine what is morally right and what is morally wrong.