Immaculate Heart of Mary Library

Dear Parents/Guardians,

I would like to welcome all of our Immaculate Heart of Mary School  families back to begin a new school year.  We are anxiously awaiting our students to fill our hallways and classrooms once again.  Each class from PreK-3 to Grade 6 will have a 45 minute Library class.  The children will learn about the Saints, Themes and Authors of the Week.  Students in Grades 3 through 6 will be asked each week to answer a Writing Piece Question as well as copy a vocabulary word and its definition in their Library copybooks. Over the summer I have purchased books.  A few are "Elephant and Piggie" as well as "Taco and Pizza" books as well as additional Graphic Novels, which the older students have requested.   Students will begin coming to the Library on Monday, September 8.  A Library Schedule will be posted on my website as soon as I receive it.  

An opportunity will be available for the students to celebrate their birthday in the Library as well as take part in the 100 Book Challenge. Letters explaining these two programs will be going home with your students during the first week of school.

Something new that will be going on in the Library this year will be a Lego Reward System.  The children in Grades 1, 2 and 3 will be able to participate.  During Library class the students who are engaged, while in the Library, will be given the opportunity to add a few Legos to a Lego base plate.  Each student will get a turn by the end of the school year.  I am hoping that by adding the Lego Reward System into the Library, it will make the students eager to come to the Library.  

I would like to end this letter with a poem I came across over the summer.  I hope it gives our families encouragement.

      "Always There"

      No matter where we are in life,

                                                          There's One Who's always there.

              In good times and in bad times,

                We're always in His care.

            In times where we ignore Him

            And succumb to great defeat,

            He's still there in the shadows

                To raise us to our feet.

                        When all good things surround us

                                                                     And we're lost in applause,

  He smiles there in the sidelines

    And, too, joins in the laud.

        When hardship strikes and heartaches come

            That bring us to our knees,

                                                                  He wraps His arms around us

    In love, for there He sees

The brokenness that He has known 

    When hung upon a cross.

  He knows of our pains and sorrows. . .

    He knows of our great loss.

What a Friend we have in Him,

    A Friend Who deeply cares;

                Someone we can rely on -

Someone Who's "always there".

If you have any questions regarding the above information, please feel free to contact me via my email address: abinns@iheartmary.org.  Thank you for sending your children to Immaculate Heart of Mary School. May God continue to bless our School and Parish families.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Adele Binns