Tonight we got to celebrate McKenzie's success at a Read-A-Thon Fundraiser Party. Over a 10 day period from February 28th to March 9th she set a reading goal to read 200 minutes in those 10 days. She collected pledges beforehand and over the 10 days we read 232 minutes. She was able to collect $168.20. For the money she raised, we got to go to a party tonight. They had pizza for dinner, a coloring corner, face painting, a storybook corner, and if you brought a can of food to donate you got a raffle ticket for one of many prizes. She also got to collect the prizes she earned. For prizes she got an extra raffle ticket, skittles, a free ice cream cone, a giant cookie coupon, a bookmark, a movie pass, $6 to spend at the upcoming book fair, a "Reading Sparks the Imagination" T-shirt, a book and a bean-bag chair. (She was one of less than about 15 kids from her whole school that earned enough for all the prizes!)
Chad won a hat and I won a refill mug from the raffle. McKenzie also won a 2nd book! Poor Brooklyn didn't win anything but she had so much fun with all the other stuff going on she didn't even notice. Everyone who pledged and donated $20 or more gets a book donated in their name to the school library. All together the students read 26,731 minutes. It was one of the best fundraisers I've ever seen. Much better that buying a roll of wrapping paper or some other over priced item from a silly catalog! We are so proud of McKenzie for doing so well with it and can't say THANK YOU! enough to those of you who pledged and gave money for this!
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