2021 Mystery Read-A-Thon

One of my favorite times of year....the Read-A-Thon!  This year was bigger than ever.  All Eagle Cliffs students participated, kindergarten to 5th grade.  The theme was mystery...

As defending champions, we were NOT going to let that trophy slip away.  The Magic of 3s worked so hard.  What an amazing team of incredible readers! The students were so motivated.  Here are some ways we encouraged each other and kept up our reading. Mrs. Niemeyer gave out snacks because reading is always better with snacks.  Students were also awarded a magnifying glass at 100 minutes, a fedora at 200 minutes and a trophy for reading three hundred minutes.

We also had dress up days through out the read-a-thon.  So fun!  One favorite dress up day was to dress as a favorite book character!

At the end of the read-a-thon, these connected combo kids read 14, 414  minutes in ten days! Two students read over a thousand minutes!  And.....EVERY.SINGLE.STUDENT...read the goal of 300 minutes or more.  Hard to beat 100% participation!  Best of all, I see true improvement in the students' reading.  The extra work has propelled them even further with meeting academic goals.  

The students were honored at a grade level assembly so that we could distance. Out of the whole third grade, our class had the the three reading minutes.  Further, one of our classmates was the second highest fundraiser for the entire school.  Thank you parents for your tremendous support both with fundraising and reading.  I am so proud of these champions.