Read-A-Thon - 7th Grade Set Some Goals!!

Hopefully you noticed in your family envelope last Friday that our students are participating in a Read-A-Thon to raise money for our new science curriculum. Seventh grade was lucky to be able to pilot the Foss program this year already and has reaped the rewards of learning from one of the top curriculums currently available. We are excited to be able to expand our implementation throughout the school, and the Read-A-Thon is one avenue to accomplishing this!
Each class is setting goals, and we also have some school-wide prizes. After some voting this week, the 7th grade has set a couple of goals. If everyone in the class brings in at least one collected pledge, the class will get to spend some "Fun Time with Mr. Schiemann" (just what they'll be doing is up to the guest of honor!). We also set a reading goal - 200 hours for the class. This equates to approximately 1 hour of reading per student per day for the 17 days of the Read-A-Thon. Reading literature for class and book reports counts as well. They should be keeping track of their time on their tracking sheets that came home with the packet last week.
School-wide prizes include $25 in free books for the top pledge earner in the school, $10 in free books for the top readers (most hours logged) in each of the three grade groups - primary, intermediate, and middle, and an opportunity to throw water balloons at Mr. Schiemann if every student brings in a collected pledge.
Please help us by encouraging your child to read and collect pledges!!