What’s a Read-a-thon, you ask?
The Erving Elementary School Read-a-thon is community-wide annual event. The goal of this event is to promote community literacy and to raise money to supplement the technology and library budgets.
Who participates?
Everyone! All members of the wider Erving community read, write down the number of pages, and send their tally sheets in to the school! Even children who are too small to read may participate; parents, grandparents, older siblings, and friends can read to small children and record the pages for them.
What kinds of materials count?
You may read just about anything: novels, textbooks, journals, magazine articles, newspapers. Our goal is to get everyone reading!
Our Sponsor
Our local corporate sponsor, the Housen Foundation, has pledged one penny per page read. This adds up! The funds raised through the Read-a-thon make us able to provide our students with so much wonderful reading and instructional materials. The efforts of our sponsors and our community members who read have enabled us to nearly triple our library budget in some years! To these wonderful folks, we can never stop saying ‘thank you.’
Special to this year
Our theme this year is
Read to Succeed . . . in Life!
Erving Elementary students will be exploring all the kinds of careers there are in the world. Erving parents and community members will be visiting our classrooms to tell us all about the work they do and how important reading is to all of them! If you are interested in speaking with a classroom about your job, please contact Robin Shtulman in the school library.
Learn all about the work of x-ray technicians, surgeons, physical therapists, medical laboratory scientists, and other medical professionals at Blood and Guts! This is a hands-on evening of fun for all ages. This special event is brought to us at no charge by the wonderful people at Franklin Medical Center, and is coordinated by the Erving Elementary Health Program, Wellness Committee, and School Library. This is an evening event. The public is invited! Details will be in the school newsletter and the February edition of the Around Town.
Read-a-thons past
Read-a-thon Dates to Remember!
| 2 January |
Read-a-thon begins |
| 5 January |
Marion Overgaard, sign language interpreter |
| 10 January |
Ed the Wizard's Reading is Magic |
| 16 January |
Andrew Goodwin, Senior Director of Application Development , ES3 |
| 17 January |
Jay Fidanza, WHAI DJ |
| 18 January |
Beth Bazler, Public Environmental Program Coordinator at Northfield Mountain Recreation and Environmental Center |
| 23 January |
Marty Garcia, Head of Operations and Maintenance, U.S.G.S. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center |
| 23 January |
Stacy Adams, Physical Therapist, Erving Elementary School |
| 24 January |
Lori Swanson, Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society |
| 30 January |
John Putala, sports coach |
| 31 January |
Morris Housen, President and CEO, Erving Paper |
| 2 February |
Blood and Guts program |
| 6 February |
Cyd Scott, DJ, Custom Entertainment and WGAW Talk Radio 1340 am |
| 7 February |
Ms. Bridgewater's 6th grade poets |
| 13 February |
Beth Lux, Law Student |
| 26 February |
Dr. Joan Wickman, Union 28 Superintendent |
| 28 February |
Mr. Rubin's First Graders |
| 2 March |
Read-a-thon ends |
