PTA February 2015 Lemon Road Elementary From the Principal’s Desk … DON’T FORGET! Monday, March 16 NO SCHOOL! Teacher workday Monday, March 30- Monday, Apr 6 NO SCHOOL! SPRING BREAK! This has definitely been an interesting winter to say the least. I know that the consistency of the district making the calls on cancellations has been frustrating for you as parents. I understand it seems like there is no rhyme or reason for how FCPS makes these decision. However, to the contrary, FCPS follows an outlined protocol when making a decision as to whether or not to open school. The pro- cess looks at multiple factors. The chal- lenge, this year, has been snowfalls and temperatures that have been unusually unpredictable making the decision process much tougher. Hopefully, warmer temperatures are coming around the bend and we can get back to concentrating on teaching and learning! We have a great Multicultural Night planned for Thursday, March 5 at 6:30 PM with over 30 cultures from around the globe represented through musical performances and cultural tables. A huge thanks to our Multicultural Night Committee, led by teachers Ms. Mortson and Ms. Patterson, for coordinating this event. We are strong at Lemon Road because of our diversity and the rich fabric of cultures. This diversity provides our stu- dents with an enriching environment, preparing them for their futures in our global society. We are very fortunate and it is definitely fun and worthwhile to celebrate this aspect of our school environment. Thanks, and please stay warm and safe! Andy UPCOMING EVENTS March 5 Multicultural Night 6:30 PM March 6 Boosterthon Fun Run March 27 Assembly Reptiles Alive! Custodian Appreciation Week! Take time to thank Dora Amaya, Blanca Avila, Francisco Nolasco & Nathanial Spencer f.or all they do for our school. Eat Pizza and Raise Money! Mark your calendars— join us at Ledo’s Pizza Restaurant Night, Tuesday, March 24 & Wednesday, March 25. The Lemon Road PTA will get a percentage of all sales. 7230 Idylwood Road, Falls Church, Virginia 22043 ● 703-714-6400
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PTA
February 2015
Lemon Road Elementary
From the Principal’s Desk … DON’T
FORGET!
Monday, March 16
NO SCHOOL!
Teacher workday
Monday, March 30-
Monday, Apr 6
NO SCHOOL!
SPRING BREAK!
This has definitely been an interesting
winter to say the least. I know that the
consistency of the district making the
calls on cancellations has been frustrating
for you as parents. I understand it seems
like there is no rhyme or reason for how
FCPS makes these decision. However, to
the contrary, FCPS follows an outlined
protocol when making a decision as to
whether or not to open school. The pro-
cess looks at multiple factors. The chal-
lenge, this year, has been snowfalls and temperatures that have
been unusually unpredictable making the decision process much
tougher. Hopefully, warmer temperatures are coming around
the bend and we can get back to concentrating on teaching and
learning!
We have a great Multicultural Night planned for Thursday,
March 5 at 6:30 PM with over 30 cultures from around the globe
represented through musical performances and cultural tables.
A huge thanks to our Multicultural Night Committee, led by
teachers Ms. Mortson and Ms. Patterson, for coordinating this
event. We are strong at Lemon Road because of our diversity
and the rich fabric of cultures. This diversity provides our stu-
dents with an enriching environment, preparing them for their
futures in our global society. We are very fortunate and it is
definitely fun and worthwhile to celebrate this aspect of our
school environment.
Thanks, and please stay warm and safe!
Andy
UPCOMING
EVENTS
March 5
Multicultural Night
6:30 PM
March 6
Boosterthon Fun Run
March 27
Assembly
Reptiles Alive!
Custodian
Appreciation
Week!
Take time to thank
Dora Amaya,
Blanca Avila,
Francisco Nolasco &
Nathanial Spencer
f.or all they do for our
school.
Eat Pizza and Raise Money!
Mark your calendars— join us at Ledo’s Pizza Restaurant Night,
Tuesday, March 24 & Wednesday, March 25. The Lemon Road
PTA will get a percentage of all sales.
7230 Idylwood Road, Fal ls Church, Virginia 22043 ● 703-714-6400
Dear Parents,
What a winter! As if life with children isn’t chaotic enough, now
we’re trying to manage what we’re doing on which day with which
kids and with what last-minute delays or cancellations – it’s all a
great game of Whack-a-Mole, isn’t it? But let’s assume the worst
is behind us: the first day of Spring is less than a month away!
I want to thank Lemon Road staff for everything they’ve done to
keep classes and kids on track through this chaos. If you hang out
in teachers’ workrooms (you know, while copying, stuffing folders, all that fun stuff parents can
help with), you overhear them reworking their lesson plans, rescheduling their classroom pro-
jects, worrying just as much as parents – and maybe more -- about how to pull it all back togeth-
er. And I’ve seen our Principal and Assistant Principal huddled over laptops open to the full
school calendar, trying to figure out how to reschedule all the delayed events without upsetting
any future schedules, making sure no one loses out on an opportunity to succeed at Lemon Road.
Thank you all for the extra effort these past weeks!
And a very special thank you to our custodians Dora Amaya, Blanca Avila, Francisco Nolas-
co, and Nathanial Spencer, who keep our school beautiful inside and out. While parents were
bringing kids to sled behind the school one day last week, the custodians were out front, shovel-
ing the steps and sidewalks to keep our kids safe – thank you, and Happy Custodian Apprecia-
tion Week!
The PTA has been busy, between cancellations, organizing this year’s Boosterthon, our biggest
annual fundraiser. We bring in an outside company to run this, because the Boosterthon team
has more energy and engenders more excitement than any parents I’ve ever known! They get
kids excited about their lessons in character building and exercise – and parents take it to the
next step by helping kids get pledges for the Fun Run! There’s lots more info on that in this
newsletter. What Lemon Road earns will go towards supporting the PTA budget, updating school
technology, and other school improvements.
We’ll see you at our big events in the next few weeks, just before the start of Spring!
Mary Clare Murray, President, Lemon Road PTA
From The PTA President
PAGE 2 LEMON ROAD ELEMENTARY FEBRUARY 2015
A Shout Out to our Sponsors! Boosterthon t-shirts this year are specially made
for Lemon Road -- and provided courtesy of a selection of our favorite local businesses! Our fan-
tastic PTA Community Business Liaison, Nancy Wanzer, contacted countless companies, asking
them to support the Lemon Road PTA Boosterthon. So we thank Nancy and those companies who
invested in our school! Here they are, be sure to check out their ads in this newsletter, bring
them your business and thank them for supporting Lemon Road!
Poolservice Company Rock Hard Excavating
Title Boxing Shreve/McGonegal
Holland & Knight Enshin Karate
Growing Smiles Bowers Design
Ayoub Carpet Essential Health Center
Kumon Amazing Smiles
Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram Vantage Fitness
McLean Hardware
PAGE 3 LEMON ROAD ELEMENTARY FEBRUARY 2015
Lions Share
Lemon Road Lions continue to serve the community through our Lions Share programs! The
Lions Share Food Recovery program collected 161 pounds of food in January, all of which
went to our own families! Be sure to check out the awesome banner in the cafeteria celebrat-
ing our program, donated by Food Bus, Inc.
This week at Multicultural Night, the PTA will have a Lions Share table selling bottled wa-
ter. All proceeds will go to Lions Share grocery cards, which will be used to help needy fami-
lies within our school. So be sure to stock up on water at Multicultural Night, March 5! All
that excellent food will make you very thirsty!
Looking for another way to help your local community? You may not know that Falls Church
City has a homeless shelter. Check it out at this website:
http://www.fallschurchshelterfriends.org/donate/. The shelter is open through March and
takes donations of supplies (not clothes).
Parenting in the Digital Age
Our January PTA/Community meeting included a
presentation by Lemon Road Parent Liaison Pame-
la Huffman called "Parenting in the Digital Age."
Pam gave parents information on which media are
most popular right now, what risks kids may face
using them, and how parents can manage computer
use at home. A Spanish translator was also present
for Spanish-speaking parents. Check our PTA web-
site for a copy of her presentation.
Interested in Girl Scouts? A new brownie troop is forming at Lemon Road for second and third grade stu-
dents! For more information, please contact Jamie Tomik at