Ready, Set, Read!

When

The whole month of February 2025

Mission

A fun school community event that celebrates reading while empowering students to participate in fundraising for PS 372. All of the money raised will go directly to fund our school, and at least 10 percent of the total raised will directly support our school libraries at all sites.

How It Works

Our goal is to make this event accessible to every member of our school community. Like Readathons past, everything will be managed online. However, we are switching to using Rally Up as our platform (it’s also being used for our auctions, teacher raffle and other fun stuff) this year.

All students have been pre-loaded to their classrooms on Rally Up.  We will invite the email address used for last year’s Readathon to administer the student’s page. If you didn’t receive the email (it will come from: noreply@rallyup.com with “Your participant registration is confirmed” as the subject line so please check your spam folder) or would like to use a different email address, please reach out to readathon@ps372pta.org

Students participating in Ready, Set, Read! record their minutes read (outside of the classroom) every day in their virtual reading log. Books count! Reading on a tablet counts! Magazines count! Comics count! Newspapers count! Homework reading counts! Students who are not reading independently should include the minutes they are read to by an adult (or other independent reader) or otherwise engaging with books.

Team Readathon will send updates about how class participation is progressing throughout the month. Milestone Minute Badges will be awarded at the end of the Readathon and in early March, we’ll place students into the appropriate Milestone Minute drawings and announce the winners schoolwide.

If internet access is an issue, paper logs are available at the PTA desk or you can download them here: English Flyer | Spanish Flyer | English Log | Spanish Log

Rally Up Logging Instructions

Sponsors

Students can ask family and friends to sponsor students for either an amount per minute of reading or with a lump sum donation. Sponsors can donate at any time between now and the end of February 2025.

Milestones & Prizes

  • Students will be awarded badges to showcase Milestone Minutes read. They are: Participation (any amount of minutes logged), 125 minutes, 250 minutes, 500 minutes, 1,000 minutes & 2,500 minutes
  • Students who reach each Milestone Minute mark will be entered into drawings to win bookstore gift certificates.
  • Classes with the most participation in every grade will help choose a new book title for our libraries with Ms. Jackie.
  • Prizes will be awarded to classes who have 100% participation!

Questions?

Having technical issues or have other general questions? Email readathon@ps372pta.org and we’ll help you out.

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