We are excited to announce the theme for this year’s Read-a-thon, 3,2,1,Read! The purpose of the read-a-thon is to encourage students to develop good reading habits, and to help raise money for the PTA’s projects and budgeted items to benefit the entire Horace Mann School community. 

This year we are moving the Read-a-thon from February to October.  The Read-a-thon will replace our former fall fundraiser.  We will no longer sell items from the Geckler Company.  Although the school received a percentage of the profits from Geckler, a Read-a-thon better fits the mission and vision for the school.  We are hoping that all Mann families will help make the Read-a-thon an even greater success than in years past because we must replace the Geckler profits. 

Each successive year of the read-a-thon the students have read more minutes than in the past year, AND raised more money.  Our goal for this year’s read-a-thon is for the students to read a combined total of 500,000 minutes and to raise $13,200 for the PTA.  This money will be used to support the library, pay for field trips for students and support the many other programs the PTA sponsors, such as Art Adventures and Bravo.

As in the past, students will attend an opening ceremony in the gym to learn about the Read-a-thon.  This year’s opening ceremony will be on Wednesday, September 30.  Students will bring home their packets of information on that day, and the Read-a-thon begins on Thursday October 1. We thank you in advance for supporting the Read-a-thon.  Your efforts have helped raise a tremendous amount of money for Horace Mann School, in addition to getting children excited about reading!  If you are interested in helping with the Read-a-thon, please contact a committee member.

TRACK READING:

October 1-31, 2009

   CALENDAR TALLY AND  PLEDGE SHEETS DUE:

November 2-6. 2009

Turn in weekly minutes totals each Monday in October

CLOSING CEREMONY:

November 12  1:30 pm