The students at Our Lady of Mount Carmel recently completed a read-a-thon program called “Reach for the Stars” sponsored by Usborne Books & More. The students were challenged to read at least 300 minutes over a two-week time period. There were 234 students who participated in this program, and they read a total of 166,166 minutes. That’s an average of almost 710 minutes per student, which is more than double the minutes required.
Students who read over 1,000 minutes in 2 weeks were given special recognition as “Star Readers,” and they were:
1st Grade – George Hein, Lily Power, and Alex Preston.
2nd Grade – Owen Ashley, Grayson Baker, Adam Balcer, Gus Dorsel, Mallory Knott, Joey Kunkel, Carson Mace, Luke Moster, Elias Niccum, Colin Payne, Christian Sosa, Lydia Sullenberger, Connor Sweeney, Thomas Van Woerkom, and Sam Woodward.
3rd Grade – Sophia Brown, Clara Fletcher, Jacob Hein, Ava Kinney, Ella Kuykendall, Robert Nies, Mackenzie Sheldon, Alex Soucie, Kathryn Tiplick, and Ian Wolf.
4th Grade – Ally Downey, Hannah Fletcher, Elisabeth Green, Olivia Kinney (not pictured), Grace Schiller, Christina Swidan, Olivia Van Dyke, and Patrick Wolf.
5th Grade – Dylan Balcer, Peter Bedford, Sarah Bushue, Anne Conway, Alex Gardner (not pictured), AJ Greven, Tommy Hartman, Olivia Kunkel, Matthew McIllvenna, Celeste Morow, Danielle St. Louis, Ellie Sullenberger, and Grace Sullivan.
6th Grade – Christian Hein (not pictured), Aidan Legg (not pictured), Claire Rancourt (not pictured), and Caroline Seaman (not pictured).
7th Grade – Daniel Cloran, Lizzy DiBlasio, Faith Goodin, and Megan Kaster.
8th Grade – Michael Legg, Duncan McGraw, and Joseph Miller.
Medals were awarded to the Top 3 Readers:
Tommy Hartman – 4,718 minutes
Ella Kuyendall – 4,120 minutes
Hannah Fletcher – 2,865 minutes
Medals were also awarded to the Top 3 Collectors:
Landon McHaffie
Anne DeBone
Matthew McIllvenna
Great job to the students of Our Lady of Mount Carmel! We are proud of you! Keep reading!
For more information about the “Reach for the Stars” program for your school or organization, contact Jan Thayer at [email protected].
