Each year the HPS-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, between October 4th through October 26th, 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, named for children’s authors: Mo Willems, A.A. Milne, Maurice Sendak, Beverly Cleary, Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, Laura Ingalls Wilder, J.K. Rowling, Daniel Handler, Shel Silverstein, J.R.R. Tolkien, E.B. White, and Loren Long.
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 during the week of the Joseph Beth Book Fair and for returning or submitting your forms in at the end.
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
- October 1st: Read-A-Thon Kickoff Rally
- October 4th: Set reading goals; first day to read
- October 4th – 26th: Gather sponsors
- Week of October 11th – 24th: Joseph Beth Virtual Book Fair.
- October 26th: Last day to read
- Oct. 27th, 28th & 29th: Turn in days. Student’s turn in minutes read digitally OR drop off printed sheets, pledge form, and money (if collected) from 7:30am – 7:45am in front of the school entrance or the car drop-off line. Students will receive tickets to the annual Pumpkin Chuck when forms are submitted.
- November 4th: 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 6th: Pumpkin Chuck
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, October 4th – October 26th. 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) or the one on your student’s homeroom Schoology page. We encourage all to use the online resources although there will be an opportunity to submit paper forms at the end of the event.
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 their homeroom teacher’s Schoology page by October 29th. Pledges can be made through your student’s online page (https://app.99pledges.com/fund/hps2021). 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 27th through October 29th outside of the school. Winners will be announced, and individual prizes awarded, at the end of the day on November 4th. Winning classroom team parties will be coordinated with homeroom teachers at a later date.
REMINDER: There are two ways to submit forms and pledges. Stay tuned for all materials online for submission. Reading logs and sponsorship information will be sent home from the school as well as accessible through your student’s homeroom Schoology page.
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 302,980 minutes… that’s 5,050 hours!!… AND raised over $33,000 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 Dr. Seuss. Congratulations Ms. Boada and Msr. Witkowski’s homerooms. Together they read 37,611 minutes!
The team with the highest average of minutes read per student at 946 minutes per student is Team Shel Silverstein. Congratulations Ms. Kohler and Mrs. Sims’s homerooms!
The following classes have earned a Pajama Day and Extra Reading Time for the highest participation: Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Lavelle, Mrs. Neaton, Ms. N. Roberts, Mr. Barker, Ms. Martin, and Ms. Snyder.
And now for the class winners! Because you all read so much this year and we had such a great turnout, this year we will be handing out prizes for second place as well.
Mr. Cassidy:
1st Place: Emmeline Williams
2nd Place: Sam Shepard
Mrs. Forman:
1st Place: Emmett Campbell
2nd Place: Hazel Lukin
Mrs. Ries:
1st Place: Rita Mucha
2nd Place: Alexander Rowe
Mrs. Wineberg
1st Place: Kate Noland
2nd Place: Elise Seevers
Ms. Boada
1st Place: Quinlan Sicnolf
2nd Place: Aaron Lindy
Mrs. Witkowski
1st Place: Amelia Han
2nd Place: Miriam Monroe
Mr. Gallup
1st Place: Maira Sahu
2nd Place: Hannah Hughes
Ms. Martin
1st Place: Audrey Hendrickson
2nd Place: Kash Denton
Mrs. Dibowski
1st Place: Eliot Hanneken
2nd Place: Riley Jones
Mrs. Neaton
1st Place: Grace Nolan
2nd Place: Kahlan Bradley
Ms. Fischer
1st Place: Felix Leslie
2nd Place: Savannah Hay
Ms. N. Roberts
1st Place: Nola Purcell
2nd Place: Alex Hindrey
Mrs. A. Roberts
1st Place: Eva-Joy Johnson
2nd Place: Charley Ramsey
Mrs. Lorenz
1st Place: Grayson Faris
2nd Place: Parker Haynes
Mr. Barker
1st Place: Blair Scott
2nd Place: Cecelia Lundgren
Mrs. Scott
1st Place: Faryan Mazloomi
2nd Place: Livia Monroe
Mrs. Lavelle
1st Place: Cora Alexander
2nd Place: Millie Batten
Mrs. Wood
1st Place: Charlie Miller
2nd Place: Lydia Schulert
Ms. Bidlingmeyer
1st Place: Sofia Costea
2nd Place: Jane DeBruer
Ms. Snyder
1st Place: James Anderson
2nd Place: Finn Hanneken
Mrs. Belcuore
1st Place: Patrick Goshdigian
2nd Place: Jamieson Reed
Mrs. Jaspers
1st Place: Ajay Hill
2nd Place: Nicholas Jellison
Ms. Carroll
1st Place: Lucas Nusbaum
2nd Place: Paxton Ballard
Mrs. Casteel
1st Place: Frost Hankinson
2nd Place: Lily Campbell
Ms. Kohler
1st Place: Daniel Hendrickson
2nd Place: Hunter Faris
Mrs. Sims
1st Place: Skylar Korunsky
2nd Place: Jordyn Thomas
Thank you again for all of your efforts and Congrats! to all the students who participated and help make this such a successful event!