Flint Hill Elementary School PTA

2024 Read-a-thon results!

Thank you to all who participated in this year's Read-A-Thon! 297,479 minutes were read (which is about 3x last year) and $15,200 were donated (which is about 2x last year)! The amounts raised will go directly to supporting FHES PTA programs and initiatives that cultivate and foster the FHES learning community for both students and teaching staff alike. Congratulations to our winners and to all of the great effort our FHES students put into reading and tracking those minutes!

The FHES PTA Read-a-Thon is back! Our goal is to encourage your student’s love of reading while raising funds for our school. In the last FHES Read-A-Thon, students read over 100,000 minutes and over $8,000 was raised for the FHES PTA.

How do I participate?

Your student can choose to personalize his or her page with a picture, record and track minutes read, and share his or her Read-A-Thon page with extended family and friends to help raise money for FHES. Your student’s Read-A-Thon page can only be viewed by yourself and those who you choose to share the link with via email, Facebook and/or Twitter. Students will receive a free prize for simply creating their FHES Read-A-Thon reader page.

When is the Read-A-Thon?

The Read-a-thon will occur March 1-29th, 2024. Start tracking your minutes Friday, March 1!

WHY DO WE HAVE A READ-A-THON?

The PTA will spend an average of $100 per student on resources and programs that directly touch each student at FHES. 100% of the money collected from the Read-A-Thon will be used to fund important school wide programs such as classroom technology, field trips, staff development, reading resources, assemblies and the list goes on.

Do I have to collect donations to participate?

NO. While raising funds to support our school is one of our goals, the Read-A-Thon is first and foremost about encouraging students to read. Students do not have to collect donations to participate in the Read-A-Thon. Every student is encouraged to participate and everyone who tracks their minutes online or turns in a reading log will have their name featured on the bulletin board in the library. We encourage all students to read and track their minutes.

DID WE MENTION THERE ARE PRIZES?

Last year the most minutes read by a single student was 4,200. They won a digital camera. This year we have upped the prizes as follows:

Grand Prize (most number of minutes read - top readers will be able to choose which of these they want to do in order of total minutes read)
- Extreme sports camera Amazon link
- 3D printing pen Amazon link
- McDonald’s lunch with 2 friends w/Principal Montequila (brought to cafeteria)
- Gift cards to Bards Alley

Grade-level prize for most minutes read

Slime Principal Montaquila - one reader from each grade level will have the opportunity to "slime" the Principal at a school event later this year.

Read-A-Thon Disney Trip Raffle Price
- The Read-A-Thon organization includes the opportunity to be entered into a raffle wo win a trip to Disney if you send 10 texts to family or friends through the Read-A-Thon website. FHES is not affiliated with this prize but it is included with the Read-A-Thon setup!