Louisiana Pass
password: tiger
Louisiana Practice Assessment/Strengthen Skills (PASS) system! PASS allows students to practice skills that are similar to those on the LEAP 21 and GEE 21 and provides instruction to help strengthen those skills. PASS includes multiple-choice, short answer, and essay questions. However, one PASS test does not cover all the skills assessed on the LEAP 21 and GEE 21. Includes grades 3-5. Teacher recommended.

Online Databases for Students
These databases have been purchased by the state and parish for the use of students.

 
World Book Online
user name: louisiana      password: elementary
Online access to the World Book Encyclopedia. Search the many articles and topics for up-to-date information.

EBSCO
user name: ouachita    password: system
EBSCO Publishing offers a wide variety of reference and literacy resources for students and teachers in K-12 schools. These award winning, Web based products combine user friendly interfaces with quality full text content from popular magazines, education journals, newspapers, news wires, transcripts, pamphlets, reports, primary source documents, biographies, almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, photos, maps, flags, and other reference sources valuable to today's schools. Includes NoveList, a database with options to search for books to fit your interests, and Searchasaurus, a database designed to be easy for younger users.

GaleGroup/Infotrac
password: pelican
A  database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use this database to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. Includes easy to use options for elementary students.

Library Programs

Accelerated Reader
AR is a computer based comprehension program that evaluates student's ability to understand books they have read. Students choose books and ten take a quiz about events from the book on computers. Students are encouraged to participate in the program with incentives, recognition, point challenges, and point goals.

Book Character Day
Students and all members of our faculty and staff come to school dressed as their favorite character from their favorite book. Teachers take advantage of this day to have students make oral presentations about what they have read. Members of the community are invited to come and visit in the classrooms sharing their favorite children's book with the students. Each classroom has at least one special visitor.

Visiting Author
Each year a published children's author or illustrator is scheduled to visit our students. They share with our students how they became authors and illustrators. students are amazed o learn that these published, famous people were once kids just like them, and most grew up in small towns similar to ours. The idea they push with our students is "If I can grow up to become famous, you can grow up to be anything you want to be!"
This year s visiting author was Michael Sampson. He read some of his books to the students, talked about some of his upcoming work, and inspired some students to be future authors.
Visitors in the past have included Jim Aylesworth and James Rice.

Louisiana Young Readers Choice Award
The Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award has been established to encourage children of Louisiana in grades 3-5 to read and to vote for their favorite book from a list of titles suggested by librarians, educators and other interested individuals in Louisiana. The book receiving the most votes from children in grades three through five will be the winner. The purpose of the award is to foster a love of reading in the children of Louisiana, and to give them the opportunity to participate in the selection of books worthy of receiving an award for literary excellence. The award seeks to excite children about reading by encouraging them to read and compare high quality books, and to honor the authors of outstanding books for children. Students at Central have been able to use voting machines to vote for this award the last two years. This is a very educational and fun learning event. Please visit the link to learn more about the contest. Click here to get descriptions of the 2003 Book List and the 2004 Book List.
SCHOOL WINNER: MY DOG, MY HERO by BETSY BYARS

Battle of the Books
Battle of the Books is a reading incentive program designed to encourage students to read quality literature. Teams of students work together to read 10 books with varying levels of difficulty. The teams work together to decide who is responsible for becoming "experts" on each of the books. After a few weeks the teams compete against each other to answer questions about the events in the books. The team that lasts through all the rounds is Battle of the Books Champion. This is a fun opportunity for all students to read and test their knowledge. Check back for further information concerning dates and the books to be read.

Scholastic Book Fair Each fall and spring the library hosts a Scholastic Book Fair in the library. Students browse through the Book Fair during library time and have a chance to choose books they would like to purchase. Family Events are planned throughout the week for students and parents to come and choose books together. The money raised from this event goes to help purchase books, AR tests, and fund other library events. Check back here for information about upcoming Book Fairs.
 

HELP the Library Out
Visit this page to learn how you can send in your "trash" and we can trade it in for CASH!

 

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