Read-a-thon 2024: Fall in Love with the Magic of Reading 

Dear Rock Creek families,  

This year we will again be having a read-a-thon fundraiser at Rock Creek. Because our Read-a-thon and Literacy Night occur in February, we are putting a spin on our magic theme for the year for this fundraiser: "Fall in Love with the Magic of Reading." We are encouraging students to work as a team with their class and READ READ READ!    

The Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) is excited to continue this fundraiser and with your help this has become a great way to give our students an opportunity to make and achieve reading goals. Students are only to count their minutes read at home for the read-a-thon; reading completed at school does not count. Our goal is to increase the amount of time students spend reading outside of school. The funds from this year's read-a-thon will be used to purchase books for classrooms, stock the book vending machine, support the Student Lighthouse team, improve Rock Creek facilities and learning tools, and so much more.    

Fundraising Packet Includes: 

Reading Log Calendar: 

●     Please record your student's minutes read each day at home on the log provided.    

●     Remind them to bring it to school every day!  This is how we will track how many minutes have been read at home, and it will be totaled each day in their class to help them track progress to their goal!  

Donation tracker: 

●     Cash/check donations are recorded on the donation tracker  

●     Your donation (cash, check or online) is made payable to: Rock Creek PTO, which is a non-profit organization. Rock Creek PTO is a 501c(3) tax exempt organization (Federal and State tax identification number: 47-1515741).  

●     Online donations are accepted at http://RockCreekElementaryPTO.fundmonkey.com. To donate online go to the webpage and click on the blue "register for this event" box on the far left. This will give your student a unique donation code that you can give to friends/family so they can donate online under your student's name. This will ensure all donations made online are credited to your student.  For all donations made online 9% of the donation amount does go to the fundraising site to cover fees associated with allowing online donations.    

Important dates to remember:  

Friday, February 9: Read-a-thon begins! Packets are distributed at school. Students may start their reading and fundraising!  

Thursday, February 22:  Last day of reading minutes to be counted toward goal.    

Friday, February 23: Donations, donation tracker, and reading logs are due back at school. To ensure your student's minutes and money raised counts, please make sure they get donations and reading logs turned in on time! 

Student goals  

10 minutes/day at home - Kindergarten & First Grade Students 

20 minutes/day at home - Second- Fifth Grade Students 

$50+ total raised per student  

School-wide goals 

150,000 minutes read at home by students at the end of the read-a-thon  

$15,000 raised by the end of read-a-thon including online and cash/check donations