Pledge forms should have come home this afternoon. Students collect pledges ahead of the race and then follow up afterwards to collect money. Here are a few pointers/recommendations I have assembled through the years...
- Have sponsors make a flat donation, rather than sponsoring by lap. It just makes things easier and allows for those kindergartners who might not run so many laps.
- There are prizes available! Simply turning in a form wins you a participation prize. If things like t-shirts are important to you (and they will be to your child on the day they are delivered), please pay close attention to the formula in the golden box on the top/inside of the sponsor form.
- Students need a certain amount of points to earn a t-shirt. Those points are earned through running laps plus the number of sponsors they have.
- The more sponsors you can accrue, the fewer laps your child will have to run. (On average, kindergartners run anywhere from 5-11 laps). To accrue a maximum number of sponsors, consider having everyone sponsor separately (mom, dad, grammy, grampy, little brother, etc).
Please return signed pledge forms before race day. I will return them that afternoon having filled in the number of laps your runner completed.
The race is typically around 1:00 PM and parents are welcome to come watch. I will send out more information as we get closer to the big event.
