Poetry Display: It's National Poetry Month! Students are encouraged to check out some exquisite books of poetry and fictional novels that are written in verse. Scroll down for information on our upcoming Poem in Your Pocket Day festivities.

The champion of LMS's Mach Madness VRC Book Tournament is Jonathan Stroud's The Screaming Staircase. This book was also Longfellow's pick for the statewide Virginia Reader's Choice contest, garnering the most votes of any of the books in this year's lineup. The four LMS students who made the most accurate bracket predictions are receiving prizes courtesy of the PTA.

Congratulations to Ms. Miller's 8th grade Lancer Time students for winning the third quarter SSR pizza party! The fourth quarter pizza party is still up for grabs, so students are reminded to bring independent reading books with them to LT on Tuesday afternoons. If we catch classes reading, we will award them with a sticker on their Reading Card. The classes with the most stickers at the end of the quarter will be entered into a raffle to win the next pizza party.

In honor of Poem in Your Pocket Day, students who show Ms. Polidoro or Ms. Hedge that they have a poem in their pocket on Thursday, April 27th will receive a tasty treat in the library!

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.

Interested in helping out in the LMS Library?

If you have any questions about volunteering, please contact Nicole Yakatan (nyakatan@aol.com), the PTA’s awesome volunteer coordinator. We always have plenty of projects in the library!