Students at Hillcrest Elementary School raised more than $14,500 during a read-a-thon held late last month, according to a press release.
All of the money raised during the event, which ran from March 18 to March 27, will go back into Hillcrest classrooms through the Hillcrest Parent Teacher Organization Stipend Program, which supports purchases like accessible seating, science experiment supplies and student incentives.
The money will also pay for all field trip transportation for every single classroom and support a kickoff donation to the Hillcrest New Playground Project, the release says.
“The Parent Teacher Organization arranged a celebrity guest reader for all classrooms, and the kids were so excited to have the Chippewa Falls Fire Department, local author Joe Niese and Jessi Peterson from the Chippewa Falls Public Library in their classroom.” PTO president Anne Hamland said in the release. “You could feel the buzz of excitement through the school, and most classroom reading goal thermometers were maxed out.”
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Students read a total of 105,000 minutes throughout the read-a-thon, with fifth-grader Aliyah Rude leading the way with 2,165 minutes and Afton Sarauer’s fifth grade class hitting 14,659 minutes as the top reading class.
First-grader Tiegan Custer was the top reading fundraiser with $500, and Colleen Kunsman’s second grade class brought in $1,940 as the top fundraising class.