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| Tomahawk Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization |
What is the "March Madness: Hop Into Reading" Challenge?
Very simply it is an academic collaborative reading initiative that
will help the students at TES to achieve reading goals while
doing it in a friendly competitive fun way.
This is how it works:
The Challenge starts on Monday, March 1st and continuing through Wednesday,
March 31st. ALL students will be participating in the “March Madness: Hop Into
Reading” Challenge.
The classes have been divided into six (6) teams.
Each team will read from March 1st through the 18th with minutes being collected
on Friday of that week.
On March 19th the four (4) teams with the most points will advance to the second
round of the play offs against each other. The second round will run from March
19th through March 25th.
On March 26th the top two (2) teams will be in the final read off with Mrs. Elliott and
Mrs. Bradt as the “coaches” for the two teams.
The overall winning team will be declared at a special assembly on Thursday, April
1st at 2pm in the gymnasium. The prize for the winning team will be that team’s
coach kisses a frog!
To encourage all of the students to read the entire month an added bonus
has been included in the “March Madness” program. If the students reach
an overall school wide goal of 300,000 minutes read (roughly fifteen
minutes per night per student for each day of the month) BOTH Mrs. Elliott
and Mrs. Bradt will kiss the frog during the assembly!
To keep the challenge fair, for all teams and students, points will be awarded based
on the number of minutes that are read outside of normal classroom/school work.
Minutes may be earned by reading, no matter the skill level, any book the child
wishes. Minutes for each night, including weekends, will be tracked on a special
form, additional copies of which may be found here, which parents will need to sign
off on and the forms need to be submitted each Friday and on April 1st. It will not be
possible to include late forms in the weekly totals.Late forms may be included in the
overall reading goal.
The goal is to have a weekly average of fifteen (15) minutes per night. Minutes do
not have to be earned each night but may be earned during certain days of the
week based on the family’s schedule. The students need to turn in the signed
forms on Friday morning, of each week, and PTO parent volunteers will calculate
the amount of minutes read and award points to the appropriate teams based on
those forms.
If you have any further questions please contact Debbie Elliott, Principal, or
Barbara Rypkema, PTO President.