
Last Friday, the Family Resource Center hosted an Open House to show off its new space. Erika Sequiera, third from left, runs the center for all of FCCPS from the area at TJ. She s...
Would you like to see your artwork on the cover of the 2019-2020 TJ Yearbook?Then grab your crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc...and start designing!The Details:Cover must incl...

Early bird TJ yearbook sales have started! If your family would like to buy a yearbook at the $20 rate, you may order online at:
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The $20 ...
Dismissal is at 1:15pm on most Wednesdays. Which Wednesdays have a full day of school?
The general rule is that Wednesday is a full day of school when there are other days off sc...

The "Prize Patrol" had a very busy Wednesday! The Falls Church Education Foundation was out in the schools awarding Super Grant funds for 16 requests, totaling over $68,000 in Supe...
Like other schools across the country, TJ is participating in Red Ribbon Week.
We have chosen to take a more nuanced approach to the week, broadening our efforts to celebrate and...

The Mid-Atlantic Association of IB World Schools (IBMA) is recognizing stellar IB programme contributors with the IBMA Faculty Excellence Award at each of its quarterly meetings.
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In the small groups for guided reading in third grade, these students are learning to communicate without raising their hands.
The class discussed how at home most of them don't ...
Thomas Jefferson Elementary is hosting the Math Kangaroo Competition again this year. We have made the testing site private. When you register, click on the “by invitation” tab and...
The first TJ Student council meeting will be held Wednesday, October 16 in Ms. Hicks room -- 318 -- before school. This meeting was initially slated for October 9, but was pushed ...

It's time to sign up for Odyssey of the Mind again! In effort to go paper-less, we have an online sign-up form that can be accessed here - https://forms.gle/HR3HRvtpGf2nBkZd8.
The...

Library and technology alternate weeks this year in the schedule's rotation at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. On library week, classes, including this third grade one, visit f...

Building Reading Stamina, One Page at a TimeFriday was National Read a Book Day, and these third graders took out their book bins for the first time. Each then found comfy places a...
Look in the Tiger Links menu to find all the Extra-Curricular Music Programs information including Chorus, Strings, Beginning Band and the Advanced Band.
TJ Strings Club will begi...
NOTE: Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, students in Second Grade will attend Mt. Daniel Elementary School. Students in Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade will attend Thomas Jef...
Dismissal is at 1:15pm on most Wednesdays. Which Wednesdays have a full day of school?The general rule is that Wednesday is a full day of school when there are other days off scho...
All adult visitors to the classroom and field trips must fill out a Volunteer Form found in the Parents Info or Tiger Links menu.All visitors to the school must register at the sec...
Per the School Board Policy 9.22, absences of 3 consecutive days or more must be approved by the principal.The request must be in writing as far in advance as possible but no less ...
Beginning last school year, Schoology became the primary Parent Communication Tool for us here at TJ.
Please check out the video more information (5:18 minutes) - https://vimeo.c...