🌟✨ A HUGE thank you to our amazing Leopard Nation for making the 2024 Fall Carnival a night to remember! 🎃🎉 The vibes were electric, and the turnout was truly heartwarming!

Shoutout to our incredible LemonavePTA and all the dedicated volunteers who orchestrated this festive gathering! 🙌 Your hard work shone bright like our carnival lights! 💡✨ 

And a special nod to Mr. Chris for preparing our campus with so much care! 👏💙 

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We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who visited our second annual garden fundraiser. Your presence brought joy and vibrancy to our garden program community, and we appreciate your support in nurturing our shared environment. Together, we can continue to cultivate and help the. garden to continue to thrive. Thank you for being a part of our gardening journey. Make sure to visit our garden web page if you are still looking to donate or want to spread the word to family and friends on how they can become a Garden Pal Today!

It was so nice seeing new and returning faces at our Welcome Back Fair. Even with the heavy road construction due to major road repaving right out front on Lemon Ave. That did not keep us from showcasing all that we have in store for this upcoming school year. It’s going to be an awesome one!

Photos by Alyssa Lavine Photography

A Lemon Avenue Elementary Tradition and another one for the books to remember. We could not have done this without the teachers staff, PTA and all the parent volunteers. Your dedication and help shines through in our little athletes.

We danced the night away at our Spring Fling 2024 + 80 years of Lemon Ave Elementary. Students and families and alumni from the 40’s to the recent all came together with music and cake to mark the occasion. An 80s theme for 80 years, honoring the past and present. And here’s to the future of Lemon Avenue! Thank you everyone you came and celebrated our radical night.

Complimentary Photo Booth Downloads by Joey Augstin Photography

Garden Pals fundraiser and celebration on reaching our $25,000 goal to sustain our garden program for next school year. We could not have done it without your generous support and help!

PTA was super happy to invite Jared Eberwein back. His brave, skillful talent and inspirational message was highly enjoyed for a second year. This year we got to watch Mr. Chris take the hot seat on the Harley Bike. Jared’s unique setup has been thought up for years, and he travels all the way from Riverside to show us his creation in one of a kind jumps and tricks. What a beautiful day to watch this after a few rain checks.

What an amazing art show! Thank you Art Docent chairs, Sheridan Brownell and Patty Jones, for planning and organizing this night of art for our kids! Did you know every month Art Docents volunteer to teach art in our student’s classrooms? This show was made possible because of their efforts! Thank you, Art Docents, for working with the kids to install this beautiful art show, and for your ongoing dedication to art education! Photos by Alyssa Lavine Photography

Thank you families for coming out to support this year’s movie night! We had such a great turnout for Trolls Band Together. Special thanks to movie night chair, Lynn Kelly, for organizing, and the Lemon Ave PTA for sponsoring, this beautiful family night! Photos by Alyssa Lavine Photography

We have had a wonderful week on the Avenue! The PTA brought a meaningful Literacy week to our children with the book fair, dress up days, guest readers, finger flashlights and a visit by Cat in the Hat! Friday we had great fun and a huge turnout with our families joining us for our literacy picnic. Special thanks to Lemon Ave. dad, and award-winning author, Minh Le, for Monday’s amazing student assembly and thank you to Lori Hamblen, our Literacy Week chair, for organizing such a special week for our school! Photos by Alyssa Lavine Photography.

Please help congratulate this year’s Fun Run t-shirt design contest winner, Henry Bullock! Henry is in Mrs. Autio’s third grade class and his design will be featured on all the PTA Fun Run shirts for 2024. Every child at Lemon Avenue will receive a t-shirt, courtesy of the PTA. Thank you to all the students who participated in the contest. We received over 40 entries, and it was a tough decision. Way to go Henry, and way to go Lemon Ave!

This year’s Variety Show was a SMASHING success and the talented performers melted your heart! Each year the PTA holds 5 practice sessions to coach students for a family-and-friends evening show and two school-wide assemblies. Participation is open to all Lemon Avenue 4th-6th graders. Thank you to all our super talented kids who performed this year and to Lori Hamblen, our Variety Show chair, who helped organize this one-of-a-kind special event for Lemon Avenue! Photography by Alyssa Lavine Photography.

Thank you Lemon Avenue Families for your generous contributions to PNO, our annual silent auction fundraiser. All the auction baskets were a huge hit with families who attended. Special thanks for Alyssa Pease, PNO event chair, and Thao Crockett, our basket donation chair, for all the planning and hard work that went into making this night a success! Photos provided by Alyssa Lavine Photography.

Success with happy and full belly's for all). Everyone raved! There were even enough subs for the Head ESS Leaders. Thank you Lemon Ave 1st and 2nd grade families!

Classes had so much fun at this year’s annual PTA Holiday Workshop. This is the 3rd year PTA has hosted this special week-long event. Students create holiday cards and crafts and the PTA provides treats and hot chocolate AND every student was gifted a new book to take home! THANK YOU SO MUCH to the chairs of our Holiday Workshop, Thao Crockett and Patty Jones, for all your time and love to give our students such a wonderful experience. Happy Holidays, Lemon Avenue!

During the week of November 13-17th the PTA sponsored Lemon Avenue’s annual food drive for the San Diego Food Bank. A big THANK YOU to Lynn Kelly for organizing this remarkable event! Photos provided by Alyssa Lavine Photography.

Tuesday night our Lemon Ave PTA hosted its annual Reflections art celebration in the library. Students who entered the Reflections art program and their friends and family were invited to a special art show showcasing their student’s artwork. This year’s theme was, “I am hopeful because…” and the Reflection’s art installation is available for viewing in the library through this Friday, Nov. 5th. The Reflections program was founded on the very principal that every child deserves to be celebrated and recognized for their efforts. If you have a creative child who loves to make art (music, dance, visual, photography, film or writing), Reflections is a place for them to belong and to shine. Consider supporting your child’s Reflections journey next year in September when the 2024 theme is released! Participation is free and open to all Lemon Ave students. Photo gallery of this year’s Reflections ceremony taken by Alyssa Lavine Photography.

Lemon Ave’s biggest event of the year was a spooktakular success! Thank you all for coming out and helping support or school with one of our largest fundraisers of the year.

Photo credit by Alyssa Lavine Photography & Devon Lima Photography

Friday, Sept 30th, marked Lemon Ave’s inaugural Garden Pal’s fundraising gala, complete with a harvest moon. Thank you to all the families who joined in support of Garden Pals, a program whose sole purpose is to raise money to sustain the future of our garden for all Lemon Ave students. It was a beautiful night hosted by our PTA Garden Chairs: Heather Melone, Alyssa Crampton and Valeria Schweer. Families enjoyed Ms. Angela’s fried rice, cucumber salad and fruit-infused waters, scavenger hunts and tours through the garden, raffled prizes and a very special live music performance by keyboardist, Kevin Krohn. All money raised goes to the Lemon Avenue Garden. Visit our Garden Pals page to learn more.

What a fantastic start to the 2023-24 school year! Food, friends, games, good cheer, and the anticipation of what awaits! It was great to see so many Lemon Avenue families enjoying time together and as a community. We are very fortunate to have moments like these! Thank you to our PTA for sponsoring this fun night, our board volunteers for planning, prepping, serving and cleaning, and to all our families who joined in celebration and made it so much fun. Lemon Avenue Elementary is amazing! Photos taken by PTA historian, Alyssa Lavine Crampton.

Faster. Higher. Stronger! The spirit of Olympic Field Day challenges students to be the best they can be and celebrates the end of another great school year! This year’s event proved to be no exception! Opening ceremonies delivered heartfelt student performances and inspirational speeches by both the major of La Mesa, Dr. A, and 2X Olympian track and field athlete, Chris Benard. Thank you Helix High pipe band for the outstanding bagpipe performance and Mireya Gill, PTA president and event chair, for planning and sponsoring this wonderful event. Thanks also goes out to our volunteers, guest speakers, teacher’s and staff, for bringing this most memorable day to life for our kids!

4th-6th grade student performers dazzled us with their talents at this year’s annual Variety Show Thursday night (May 25th)! Thank you to all of our amazing performers and their families for supporting a beloved event at Lemon Avenue and thank you to Lori Hamblen, our Variety Show program chair, for bringing back this treasured classic! Students will perform again for their peers Friday morning/afternoon during two school-wide assemblies! Lemon Avenue’s got talent!

What a fun night of music, dancing, performances and prizes, sweet and salty treats, photo memories, and time spent with friends and family! Over 400 attended Friday night’s school dance and good times were had! A special thanks to our Spring Fling planning committee - Alyssa Crampton, Lauren Knuth and Sheridan Brownell for putting together a night to remember, balloon artist Reyna Tenorio with Lola Mia for donating our gorgeous balloon decor, our Leopard DADS for providing event security, concession volunteers from Helix High and Sporting San Diego Soccer, and Alyssa Crampton/Devon Lima for the beautiful photos linked below! We love Lemon Avenue and hope you enjoyed this year’s Spring Fling!

On May 11th PTA hosted a free paint night for Lemon Avenue families to spend quality time and get creative together! The event featured four self-guided art projects. In the photo above families were invited to create a community circle mural that will be on display at this year’s Spring Fling. With over 100 attendees it was wonderful to see so many happy faces and families enjoying themselves! View more pics through the photo gallery below.

Spring into a good book! Over 1,300 books were sold this week bringing roughly $5K in scholastic dollars to Lemon Avenue! Scholastic dollars are used to buy books for our school library, classroom libraries, and gifted to students to foster a love of reading. If families weren’t able to attend (or find a book they wanted) our online fair is still going on until 5/21. Shop from the book fair website: bookfairs.scholastic.com

PTA hosts week-long teacher and staff appreciation! Monday’s Grand Slam breakfast was sponsored by our 2nd grade families and the remaining week’s eats and treats were provided our PTA’s hospitality team! Thanks for hitting it out of the park, Lemon Ave!

Welcome to the Square1 Art Fundraiser! Your child created a very special art masterpiece that you may purchase on unique gifts and keepsakes to enjoy for a lifetime! Art Projects are lead by volunteer art docents that bring art to your child’s classroom each month!

Coming home to you soon will be your child's custom catalog for the Square 1 Art fundraiser. Get a head start, and start ordering keepsakes and gifts featuring your child's art online NOW, if you like!

Simply search for your child's art using Art Search, and enter state, school name, and your student's name. Your student's art and code will appear, and you may order!

Order by: 4/28/2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED: 5/5/2023

Upload additional art if you like, using Art Upload!

Money raised supports our school and your child’s art program!

Thank you to all the families who joined us Friday for movie night! It was great to see so many friends and families spending time together!

Thank you for helping us bloom and Grow!

March 23rd kicked off the Lemon Avenue Fun Run fundraiser with an amazing school wide pep rally and today our kids ran their hearts out at the big event! Thank you Lemon families for your contributions to this year’s fun run and for coming out to support our amazing kids! They had a blast! Our goal was to raise 35K and we did it for our beloved garden 🪴 and much needed facility’s upgrades. Go Lemon Ave! You are superstars!

Each year the Art Docent program puts on a school wide art show for Open House. This year’s theme is Under the Sea! We hope you love seeing your child’s artwork as much as they loved creating it for you! Thank you to all the Art Docents who bring art to our kids each month and brought this year’s show to life!

Congratulations to Ranya Boubetana from Mrs. Davis’ 6th grade class for her winning Fun Run design. Ranya’s art work will be featured on the front of this year’s Fun Run t-shirt. There were 29 entries in the Fun Run t-shirt design contest open to 4th-6th graders. 6th graders voted for their top 3 picks and the PTA voted on the final winner. The Fun Run will take place Friday, Mar 31st and every student and staff member will receive a Fun Run shirt!

What a week! Every day the PTA plans fun activities to support our children’s love of reading. Celebrated author and Lemon Ave parent, Minh Le, started the week out with a reading of his book, Lift, in a school-wide assembly. The kids are loving it!

The LMSV District office will be holding a special Reflections art celebration to honor the following Lemon Ave students for their outstanding art achievements in this year’s Reflections art program. In the category of Literature, congratulations to Elle Richmond and Hazel Caldwell. For Photography, congratulations goes to Lilith Scott, Macey Caldwell and Robert Brownell, And lastly for Visual Arts, congratulations goes to Anya Edwardson, Gia Espinoza, Lucy Carter, Learic Cowell and Zoe Brownell. All Lemon Ave families and friends are invited to attend the art show case in celebration of these wonderful student’s artwork.