Cape Hatteras Secondary School

Welcome to the Cape Hatteras Elementary School Media Center webpage. 2006-07 is proving to be an exciting year for reading and literacy. Clara Scarborough, Diane Brown and I love every minute of our exciting jobs working with the children at Cape Hatteras Elementary. We’re having a tough time keeping up with all the reading going on, and there is never a dull moment!

We are pleased to host a FLEX/FIXED schedule which allows students to visit the library formally every other week, and browse informally at any time on any day. Our reading soars, test scores improve, and book checkout is continually on the rise. At this point, through Fiction Diggers! Current count says 562 books have been read and documented by participating third through fifth graders since September. Way to go, Readers!

Thanks for the opportunity to work with these outstanding children; we in library and technology remain committed to excellence, partnership, and reading. Please look into any of our accomplishments below, and thanks for visiting!

Sincerely,

Shauna Leggat

Media Coordinator

Cape Hatteras Elementary School

· We received a $1500.00 grant to fund reading programs and class sets of books from the NC Bright Ideas Grants. Thank you, Cape Hatteras Electric Co-op!

· We were named the North Carolina IMPACT School of the year for our strides in literacy.

· We are finalists in the International Reading Association’s Reading and Literacy Initiatives Award. Our school visit was February 28, and final award notification will be March 1.

· CHE was invited as one of 65 schools in the state to participate in NC Legislative Technology Day, February 13, in Raleigh where fifth grade students showed our State Politicians the incredible literacy and technological initiatives in our schools.

· …and our newest BRAINCHILD…Fiction Diggers! Our competitive reading 4th and 5th grade program is sweeping Dare County schools and quickly spreading to neighboring and other North Carolina Counties.

· Check out the 16 incredible titles in the first year of the Fiction Diggers! 2006-2007 Program, or check out titles under consideration for Fiction Diggers! 2007-2008. Books are Hot-off-the-press and winning awards daily.

· Browse the Fiction Diggers! Blog and add your voice to those already there.

· Visit the Fiction Diggers! Supplements in art, math, background, and reviews.

· Peruse the newly formed Parents of Penzance monthly support group and participate in upcoming community or faculty reads. The February Selection was 2005 Newbery Honor, Al Capone Does my Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko, and our March reading selection is 2006 Newbery Honor book, Princess Academy by Shannon Hale.

· Partnering with Ms. Trish’s first grade, a group of ten students are writing and illustrating an original book for Scholastic’s Kids are Authors Too!

· Media/Technology week is coming and will partner with Read Across America day on March 2, a nation-wide literary celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Our classrooms will each adopt an author for the week, will visit their website, read biographies and works by that author, and create a unique presentation for the school to be presented on that final Friday.

· Handouts for the Best Practices Conference, February 19, FFHS.