The LMS Library is gearing up for our annual Scholastic Book Fair! The book fair will be held in the library from December 5th-9th (next week!!), and students will be attending with their English classes. Students may also visit the fair before school (7:10-7:25), after school (2:15-3:00), and during Lancer Time and all lunch periods (with a pass from a teacher).

Parents and students are encouraged to shop our online book fair. The online fair is open from December 2nd-December 9th. Any books ordered online should be delivered in time for the holidays.

Interested in helping out?? We would love to have more parent volunteers to make sure this year’s book fair is fun and successful! If you have any questions about volunteering, please contact Nicole Yakatan (nyakatan@aol.com), the PTA’s awesome volunteer coordinator. If you have any questions about the book fair itself, please feel free to contact Longfellow’s head librarian, Jennifer Polidoro (jepolidoro@fcps.edu).

These past couple of weeks, we've been busy working with teachers and students on a variety of projects. We've worked with...

• 8th grade English students on their Ashoka research project. Students are investigating an Ashoka Fellow (from the Ashoka.org website) and researching the global issue he/she is working to improve.
• 8th grade Science students on their research projects related to the Elements.
• 7th & 8th grade students on research skills lessons: evaluating websites, conducting keyword searches, using the FCPS databases, avoiding plagiarism, and using Noodle Tools to create Works Cited pages.

As a reminder, Battle of the Books (BOB) meets on Thursday afternoons in Room 121--across from the library. We are currently reading and discussing this year’s Virginia Reader’s Choice books (in no particular order). We are asking all BOB members to fill out this form for each of the books that they read. Ultimately, the book questions that they generate will be used for practice rounds of our competition. To find out more about this club, please visit the Battle of the Books Website.