Thank you to all the students and teachers who read and collected pledges for this year’s Read-A-Thon. Together, HPS students read over 467,539 minutes… that’s 7,792 hours!!… AND raised over $25,000 for the school!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Now for this year’s winners:
The team with the most amount of minutes read is Team Ramona Quimby and Beezus. Congratulations Ms. Roberts and Mr. Gallup’s homerooms. Together they read 47,559 minutes!
The team with the highest average of minutes read per student at 1,563. minutes per student is Team Thing 1 and Thing 2. Congratulations Ms. Belcuore and Ms. Bidlingmeyer’s homerooms!
The following classes have earned a Pajama Day for the highest participation: Ms. Lorenz, Ms. Roberts, Ms. Wood, Ms. Eby, Ms. Saporito, and Ms. Boada.
And now for the class winners!
Homeroom Class Winner Runner Up
Eby Remi Theis Eloise Adams Ries Jane Sonnenberg Emme Williams McFarland Nora Seger Moniksha Thalla Neaton Dax Goodburn Amelia Dewey Casteel Fiona Fischer Lydia Schulert Sims Emilia Suglich Declan Bedard-Thomas Bowen Joanna Brownlee Paxton Ballard Forman Eleanor McElroy Eleanor Murphy Cassidy Cesia Perez Rexnoso Elliot Orszak Lorenz Lincoln Sattler Florence Adams Carroll Cilla Harrison George Stephens Quinn Kahlan Bradley Hadley Gregoire Fischer Davis Ballard Flash Godsey Lavelle Mia-Grace Dobson Georgie Harrison Chasnoff Ella Hammond Rocco Ricciardi Jaspers Grace Nolan Cora Alexander Gallup Lillian Shuman Laila Wilson Roberts Noah Hillenmeyer Zoe Spaulding Witkowski Lilly Dribin Quinlan Sicnolf Wood Laureli Mayne Greta Huber Back Calvin Hogan Anna Han Saporito Quinn Molleson Evie Alexander Belcuore Elise Herbst Ramona Hattemer Snell Bidlingmeyer Aiden Richardson Parker Haynes Boada Ariana Wilson Elsie Mattox Dibowski Ajay Hill Charlie Miller Endres Knox Hammond Simon Lucas Wozniak Jocelyn Herbst Claire Vandivort
Thank you again for all of your efforts and congrats to all the students who participated and helped make this such a successful event!
Each year the Hyde Park School PTO organizes a Read-a-Thon to help raise money to support field trips for our kids and to meet classroom needs identified by our teachers. This year, beginning on September 30th and through October 22nd, the entire school will participate in a contest to see which team of students can read the most. Classes will be paired in cross-grade teams, celebrating teamwork and friendship in our favorite children’s stories.
We kindly ask for your support, by sponsoring a reader, encouraging your student(s) to read, and helping to make this fundraiser a fun experience for the kids. Prizes will be awarded for the team with the highest amount of minutes read, the team with the highest average of minutes read per student, as well as the top reader in each homeroom. There will also be participation prizes for returning or submitting your forms at the end. We hope that every family will participate, as this is our second largest fundraiser of the year and provides so much for our school community!
Every child is encouraged to participate no matter how much money they raise. Homerooms with the highest participation (meaning reading logs completed, with or without pledges) will earn a pajama day at school, and free reading time during ELA period on pajama day.
Important Dates
- September 24th: Read-A-Thon packet goes home in Tuesday folder
- September 30th: Read-a-Thon Kickoff Rally; set reading goals; first day to read
- September 30th – October 22nd: Gather sponsors
- October 22nd: Last day to read
- October 23rd-25th: Turn in days. Students turn in minutes read via the Google Form OR drop off printed sheets, pledge form, and money (if collected) from 7:30am – 7:40am in front of the school entrance or the car drop-off line. Students will receive game tickets to the annual Pumpkin Chuck when forms are submitted.
- October 31st: Literary Character Parade
- November 1st: Winners announced at the end of the day. Group picture of winners from each homeroom taken at the end of the day with their prizes.
- November 2nd: Pumpkin Chuck at 12 pm!
Read-A-Thon Instructions
Setting a Goal: Help your child decide on a realistic number of minutes that s/he can read (or be read to) during the reading period, September 30th – October 22nd. Record this at the top of the Reading Pledge Form. Only minutes read outside of school (including for homework), count towards this goal. Your student may include time spent reading, being read to, or listening to audiobooks.
Sponsors: Sponsors are people who agree to support your child’s reading by pledging a dollar amount to the Read-A-Thon. This year, we will be sending an online link for your student’s team, to make it easier to share with family, friends, and neighbors. Sponsors may pledge either a certain amount per minute OR a flat pledge, paid if the child meets his/her reading goal. Use your student’s donation page link provided by their homeroom teacher to collect pledges or Pledge Form to record each sponsor’s pledge and the amount collected.
Completing Your Reading Log: Students will keep track of their minutes on the enclosed Reading Log (an adult must initial each day).
Collecting Pledges and Turn-In Days: All students are able to submit their final minutes read through the Google Form that will be available on through your child’s homeroom teacher. Pledges can be made through your student’s online page (https://app.99pledges.com/fund/hps2024). In the case that online is not convenient for your family, students are able to drop off their paper forms, cash, and/or checks (made out to HPS PTO) from October 23rd through October 25th outside of the school at the walker door and car line door.
Prizes are awarded for reading!
The team with the most minutes read by all students in the class and the team with the highest minutes read per student (averaged among the number of students) will win a pizza party. The top reader in each homeroom will receive a book store gift card. Homerooms that have the highest participation (classroom reading logs submitted, pledges are not required to win) will earn a pajama day & extra free reading time in class. Simply for turning in their forms by October 25th, students will receive game tickets to be used at Pumpkin Chuck on November 2nd. Winners will be announced, and individual prizes awarded, at the end of the day on November 1st. Winning classroom/team parties will be coordinated with homeroom teachers at a later date.
If you have misplaced the documents that were sent home, you can download and print them by clicking the links below: