Terraset Read-A-Thon Rocks

Tracy Grant and Devon Boatwright, Read-A-Thon
coordinators, celebrate reaching the Read-A-Thon goal!

February was all about reading at Terraset and the Read-A-Thon was front and center! With a goal to read 1,000,000 minutes we had our work cut out for us. But Terraset tigers don’t get scared easily. They were ready to make a mark in the annals of Terraset’s read-a-thon… all three years of it! And this year’s participants have turned themselves into legends. The Terraset community read 1,373,590 minutes and raised over $6,000.

The Read-a-Thon’s pirate theme made its way into everything. Kindergarten was singing the “Subtract like a Pirate” song, first through third grade classrooms were full of pirate stories, and fourth-sixth grade… well they’re pretty much pirates all year round anyway!

Principal Lindsay Trout visits a first grade
classroom with treasure for ALL
 

What were they really reading for… the prizes of course! The biggest prize of all was having Principal Lindsay Trout dress and speak like a pirate all day on Friday, March 8^th because “we reached our goal!” Other awards included prizes for individual readers and fundraisers, as well as awards for the classes that read the most!

 

 

Congratulations to everyone that made our read-a-thon a success this year. The kids could not have done it without the help of their teachers, parents and grandparents. It was a true community effort. We also need to acknowledge all those volunteers who helped collect, enter and collate both paper and online reading logs. We need to give a special shout-out to Brian Davidson who hosted and developed our online logging system at read.terrasetpta.org. But special thanks go to Devon Boatwright and Tracy Grant. They planned, coordinated, and executed the whole shebang, and anyone who has been involved in a program like this knows just how much behind this scenes work that entails. Thank you both so much, especially for indicating you may be willing to do it again next year! Yey!

Max Estrada - Top overall
fundraiser for 2013!

	Top Readers	Minutes	Top Fundraisers	$
Overall	Margaret Goetz	8,895	Max Estrada	445.00
K	Noah Goetz	4,126	Taryn Dougherty	180.00
1	Rebecca Goetz	5,716	North Karas	181.92
2	Alex Walters	2,310	Elliott Berg	200.00
3	Margaret Goetz	8,895	Max Estrada	445.00
4	Krishna Patel	4,671	Katie Falcone	173.10
5	Kathryn Goetz	8,597	Carlo Nassar	144.50
6	Zachary Rice	3,459	Lexi Reuling	155.00
K-2	Top Class: Ms Kirk’s 2nd grade: 38,311 minutes
3-6	Top Class: Ms Childers’ 6th grade: 52,777 minutes