Thank You and God bless You!

Thanks to all who shared their time, talents and treasures during the spring Scholastic Book Fair. It was truly successful! A special thanks to Mrs. Heather Silvera for working so hard as the book fair chairperson. God bless you.
May you enjoy a happy, healthy and holy Easter Season.

Spring Book Fair

Sisters from the Daughters of St. Paul will sponsor a religious book fair on March 10th in OLM School's library. They will have a wide selection of Catholic books for children. Members of this order will also talk to the children about their vocation.



The Our Lady of Mercy School Library will sponsor a Scholastic Book Fair during the week of conferences (March 16 through March 19). The book fair will be open from 8:00am until 3:30pm each day. A large selection of books, posters, and other items will be offered. Everyone is welcome. We hope to see you there. As always, we appreciate your continued support.

Scholastic Book Fair

Thank you for visiting the Scholastic Book Fair last week. So many people checked out the many books and other educational materials. Thanks to all who helped to make this book fair such a success. There will be another book fair next spring! Keep reading!

Library Notes

Come to the Scholastic Book Fair in November. More information will follow.

Quotes to remember:

The man who enters a library is in the best society this world affords;
the good and the great welcome him, surround him,
and humbly ask to be allowed to become his servants....
Andrew Carnegie, 1895
Related: PBS The American Experience - Andrew Carnegie

"We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable.
It would be wise to use that time adoring our families,
cherishing our friends, and living our lives".
Maya Angelou

Thank you to the students from Mrs. M's 4th grade class who helped me "pick up" the library. You were demonstrating how to be responsible citizens and active faith-filled people. Keep up the good work!

Library Humor

Announcing the New Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge Device, otherwise known as the BOOK!

It's a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It's so easy to use even a child can operate it. Just lift its cover. Compact and portable, it can be used anywhere--even sitting in an armchair by the fire--yet it is powerful enough to hold as much information s a CD-ROM.

Here's how it works: each BOOK is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information. These pages are locked together with a custom-fit device called a binder which keeps the sheets in their correct sequence. By using both sides of each sheet, manufacturers are able to cut costs in half.

Each sheet is scanned optically, registering information directly into your brain. A flick of the finger takes you to the next sheet. The book bay be taken up at any time and used by merely opening it. The "browse" feature allows you to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward and backward as you wish. Most come with an "index" feature which pinpoints the exact location of any selected information for instant retrieval.

an optional "bookmark" accessory allows you to open the BOOK to the exact place you left it in a previous session--even if the BOOK has been closed. Bookmarks fit universal design standards; thus a single bookmark can be used in books by various manufacturers.

Portable, durable and affordable, the BOOK is the entertainment ( and educational) wave of the future, as many new titles are expected soon, due to the surge in popularity of its programming tool, the Portable Erasable-Nib Cryptic Intercommunication Language Stylus...

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Welcome to a New School Year!

Dear Families,

Welcome back! AND Welcome to Mrs. Poole's library blog. That's right! I am serving Our Lady of Mercy School as its librarian!

It is an honor to serve the students, families, teachers and staff of Our Lady of Mercy School in this capacity. It will be an exciting year… as we learn and grow together.

Check out the library blog as I will update it from time to time with library news and information. Thank you and God bless you for your support and prayers.

Yours in Christ,
Mrs. T. Poole

P.S. Check out the article below regarding setting up a library at home.

Set Up a Library for Your Children

By L. Reynolds

Set Up a Library for Children! Books draw us out into the greater world and develop our imagination so that anything is possible. They allow us to learn from minds that are older and wiser than ours. A library of his own gives your child an alternative to the adolescent short-attention-span world electronic media and gives him a physical place where he can think and dream. Books give kids something to imagine and discuss with siblings, improving communication skills. Books give parents a way to share ideas with and communicate values to children, both in what we read with them and in what we chose for them to read. A home library for your child is a good way to build a collection of books so that they will have treasures to share with their children.

Things You’ll Need:

• Bookshelves
• Books

Step1

Start small. Find a little bookshelf at a garage sale or in a ready-to-assemble kit. Paint it to go with the nursery and put any books received at baby showers on one shelf. Use the others to store blankets, display stuffed bears or other shower gifts. As your child receives books, the shelves will fill. The important idea is that your child will remember that there were always books present in her life. Share the books and read them often, even if your child is very young and if you read each book a million times. She will not tire of hearing it and you'll have a challenge to find a new way to make it exciting each time you read the book.

Step2

Enroll your child in a public library reading program as soon as he's old enough. Go to the library and browse with him. These experiences will guide you in choosing books to add to your child's library--and to suggest to family members for birthday and holiday gifts.

Step3

When your child begins to read, give her a children's dictionary and show her how to look things up. It is unimportant that she won't learn to use a dictionary until the next grade in school--she's curious about words now, as she learns to recognize them. Buy new dictionaries as her skills grow. As she gets older, add a thesaurus and a good atlas to her reference collection so she learns that you don't need an Internet connection to browse or look up basic information about your world. When she's fifty, she'll have several good reference books and dictionaries, one or two of which she can use to help her grandchildren learn about the world she grew up in and the language they speak.

Step4

Give your favorite books to your children. I still have copies of "The Wind in the Willows" and all four A.A. Milne books, given to me by my mother and a copy of "The Little Lame Prince", a gift to my father in 1934. They sit prominently between theology and law books belonging to great grandparents, in a place where I can reach for them to read to little people who visit us. I have given my own children other books given to me over the years but these are precious and I will give them away only when my eyes grow too dim to treasure their words.

Step5

As your children grow older, encourage them to choose their own books--and to share the books they no longer want by giving them to friends or the local library's "give-away" table. Help your children to see that the gift of a beloved book is an act of generosity. Through this, they will learn that only when the gift has value to the giver is the giving truly an act of love.

Thank You and God bless You!

Dear Kindergarten Families,
Mrs. Pedrozo and I extend our heartfelt thanks for a wonderful year! Thank you for all your support and prayers. We also thank you for the thoughtful "end of the year" gifts. We hope you have a happy, healthy and holy summer vacation.
God bless you all.