Reading Rally starts oct. 10!
Blast off into reading
Friday, October 10th through FRiday, October 17th
(donations will continue through Monday, OCtober 20th)
Warm up your readers, gather your books, and get ready to play reading BINGO to raise funds for Talley! Here’s how it goes:
Register your student(s) on the fundraising platform:
2. Start gathering pledges. Ask grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and neighbors to pledge an amount per square on your reading bingo card. We suggest $1-$10/square.
Share our Reading Rally campaign:
https://talleypto.betterworld.org/campaigns/talley-2025-reading-rally
3. BINGO cards were sent home in Thursday folders today, the 9th. They are also available here to download in case it gets lost.
4. On Friday the 10th, start reading to complete your BINGO activities. Try to complete as many BINGO square activities as you can!
5. Parents, share your child’s fundraising page far and wide online.
6. Keep reading and bingo-ing through midnight on Thursday, October 16th. Bring in your bingo card on Friday the 17th to turn into your homeroom teacher.
7. Keep collecting donations and pledges through Monday the 20th.
There are prizes!!:
The joy of reading: We love this event because of the excitement and diversity of reading activities it brings to our students. We think a big part of the fun of reading rally is the READING!
Participation: Everyone who turns their bingo cards back in on Friday the 17th will receive 3 house points!
Class Level: The 1 student in each homeroom with the most number of BINGO squares will win a gift card to a local bookstore. If there are ties, we will hold a drawing in each of those classes.
Grade level: The class in each grade with the highest total number of bingo squares completed will receive their choice of a class party.
House Level: All six houses will receive points, ranked by total number of BINGO squares completed (1st place = 30 pts; 2nd = 25 pts; 3rd = 20 pts; 4th = 15 pts; 5th = 10 pts; 6th = 5 pts).
School wide: the 1 class in the whole school with the most Bingo squares will win the coveted reading rally trophy, bragging rights, and a class party!
Why Do we have a REading Rally?
Our fall Reading Rally is a fun way to promote literacy while also raising funds to support teachers, staff, and students at Talley throughout the year. These funds raised will help:
Fund clubs and afterschool programs for students
Support community events like the popsicle social and more
Sponsor the True Book Fair and the 5th grade trip to Tybee
Support all other PTO missions and goals.
“Readathons are a fantastic way to help students reduce screen time, transport the to faraway galaxies, and make them learn a million new things in a highly captivating manner. “
Register:
Extra Bingo CArd:
Questions:
Feel free to reach out to the PTO at general@talleypto.org.
