School Support

Hospitality

The TJS Hospitality Committee provides the teachers, staff, and members of our school community with food and beverages for events throughout the year such as the Teachers' Back to School Breakfast, Parent Teacher Conference Lunches, Veterans Day Celebration, and Teachers Appreciation Week.  The purpose is another way to demonstrate appreciation on behalf of the school community for our valued teachers and staff for all they do each day for our students.  Organizers are responsible for sourcing and ordering food, drinks and decorations within the PTO established budget, coordinating with front office on scheduling, event set up and clean up, etc.

TJS Learning Garden

Our Learning Garden was built in 2018, to provide an outdoor classroom for our children to have an opportunity to bring their lessons "to life".  They LOVE to be outside, get their hands dirty, work together, and see what they can grow.  We coordinate lessons with the teachers to get each class out at least once in the fall and at least once in the spring. Depending on what we are planting, some of the grades come out twice per season, once to plant and once to harvest. Each class usually has a lesson that the teacher does with half of the children, while the Garden Committee runs the garden activity with the other half and then we switch.  We have made insect houses, planted pollinator gardens, learned about herbs and spices, planted and harvested various vegetables, touched the parts of a pumpkin, and have even done a lettuce tasting with the 5th graders every year with their lettuce as some examples. 

Lessons that we have in the garden have ranged from social studies topics, to understanding the food chain, pollinators and our environment, helpful insects, organic gardening, herbs and spices and the history of the spice trade, where our food comes from, labeling and understanding parts of plants and flower bulbs, stored energy, seeds and so much more.