1. Riverside Library Read-a-thon

2. Why do we have a fund-raiser for the library? Raise money for: buying new library books (students are surveyed for specific titles they want.) buying prizes for Book Bugs program, books for our Chew ‘N Chat book club, etc. What else??

3. “Read-a-thon” Raise money by reading books!

4. How does this work? 1) Get money pledges from family, friends of the family, people that you know. 2) Read for 2 weeks and record the number of books read. **Since you read longer, chapter books, every 25 pages of a book will count as one book. 3) After the 2 weeks are up, collect money from pledges and return it to the library.

5. When are we doing this? Starts Feb. 1 st – Feb. 12 th Collect pledge money by Feb. 19 th

6. Reading Packets… Packets have an envelope to collect pledge money, a pledge sheet, a reading tally sheet to keep track of books and a letter to parents explaining the Read-a-thon.

7. Chapter books… Every 25 pages of a chapter book will count as one “book” on our tally sheet…

8. PRIZES Those who read without fundraising will receive a lollipop. 4 th place winners – Those who READ AT LEAST 10 books AND COLLECT AT LEAST $15 – receive a bookmark and lollipop.

9. PRIZES 3 rd place winners – Those who READ AT LEAST 15 books AND COLLECT AT LEAST $25 – receive an engraved bronze medal, a $2.00 Barnes and Noble Bookstore gift certificate and a lollipop.

10. PRIZES 2 nd place winners – Those who READ AT LEAST 20 books AND COLLECT AT LEAST $35– receive an engraved silver medal, a $5.00 Barnes and Noble Bookstore gift certificate and a lollipop.

11. PRIZES 1 st place winners – Those who READ AT LEAST 25 books AND COLLECT AT LEAST $50 – receive an engraved gold medal, a $10.00 Barnes and Noble Bookstore gift certificate and a lollipop.

12. GRAND PRIZE The student who has raised the largest amount of money will receive a $25 gift certificate to Barnes and Noble and a trophy.

13. Examples of library books that were purchased from student suggestions…

15. Animal Ark Pets

19. Students suggestions… What titles, authors or series can you come up with that you would like to see added to our library?

20. In the past…. At other schools students who participated read over 1,000 books and raised over $2,000! How did they do it?

21. Any Questions???

22. LET’S GET READING!!