The 2024 Read-a-thon is here!

We are excited for students to participate in the 2024 Swansfield Read-a-thon! We hope that the read-a-thon will inspire Swans to spend extra time reading outside of school and track their reading minutes each day. 

 Students can participate in the read-a-thon in 5 easy steps:

  1. Sign up for a read-a-thon page to track your reading minutes. The process is quick and easy!  https://app.99pledges.com/fund/2024readat/addme Make sure to include your email address since this is required to track your minutes. 
  2. Ask friends and family to sponsor your reading goals (optional). All donations will go towards supporting Swansfield PTA activities and school support initiatives!  Sponsors should select a simple, one-time donation, since per-minute donations are often larger or smaller than expected. Donations can be made anytime between now and Sunday, February 5th.
  3. Record how many minutes you read every day outside of school between Monday, January 15th and Sunday, January 28th. 
  4. Set your goal and take small steps each day! For younger readers, reading with a grownup counts too! Swans meeting their goals will get to pick a special prize!
    1. Preschool – 1st Grade goal: 200 minutes total, about 15 minutes a day
    2. 2nd – 3rd Grade goal: 275 minutes or about 20 minutes a day
    3. 4th – 5th Grade goal: 350 minutes, or 25 minutes a day
  5. Enter your daily minutes on your personal read-a-thon page, which you will receive via email after signing up. You can also track your minutes on the paper reading log sent home in your FISH folder and enter them at the end of the read-a-thon.

Check out our school Read-a-thon page to see who is participating: https://app.99pledges.com/fund/2024readat/ 

Prizes:

All participants will get a prize! Students who meet their total reading goal (200 minutes for Pre-K-1st, 275 minutes for 2nd-3rd, 350 minutes for 4th-5th) will get to choose a special prize! 

In addition, the 10 students with the most minutes and each homeroom with at least 50% of students participating will receive special Swansfield recognition!  The top 10 readers will get to choose from an individual lunch bunch with a teacher of choice, checking out an extra media book, a special picture with LaSwan James, sitting in the special/ rocking chair for the day, reading a book with a staff member outside, or being a guest reader in another class! Homerooms will get to choose from pajama day, no homework day, pick your seat for a day, class lunch bunch, guest reader, or outside buddy reading.

Questions?

Contact Read-a-thon chairs Michelle Li at Readathon@Swansfieldpta.org.