The Race for Education is just one week away — on Friday, October 28 — and sponsor donations and pledges are now close to $25,000. There is plenty of time left for students from PreK2 to the 8th grade to ask family members and friends to sponsor them in the Race. We’re getting closer to our goal of $40,000, so please keep emailing and calling family, friends, and local businesses to ask them to be a Race Sponsor.
Event Coordinator Christian Delacruz has been visiting classrooms around the school campus to present dozens of green-and-white Race for Ed Sponsor Sneakers to students who have raised $50 or more from a sponsor. The sneakers are on display on a bulletin board in the Multi-Purpose Room hallway. There is still room for more sneakers — so let’s keep reaching out to prospective sponsors. All proceeds will go into the ACS Annual Fund to support our educational programs in this school year.
There are also some great student and class prizes for those who raise the most money in sponsor donations, including a fun class outing to the Atlantic City Aquarium, Get Air Trampoline Park, and Storybook Land, an individual season pass to Ocean City Water Park or Storybook Land, pizza and ice cream parties, Five Below Gift Cards, and Dress Down Day passes.
Giving to the Race for Education is easy — just visit our Race website — www.race4ed.com/acs/
Sponsors can give any amount, but if they donate $50 or more, the student they are sponsoring will receive a special Race sneaker sign with the sponsor’s name and the name of the student they are sponsoring. Donors can also be a “Classroom Sponsor” (for a gift of $200) or an “Event Sponsor” (for a gift of $400). Individual yard signs with the names/logos of Classroom and Event sponsors will be placed around the edge of the track on Race Day to encourage all of our runners. In addition, the names/logos of our “Event Sponsors” will go on a banner hung at the school for the week prior to and on Race Day.
CLICK HERE to go to the Race donation website to make a gift.
Our kindergarten classes enjoyed a fun-filled day at Storybook Land on Friday, October 7 and the following Tuesday celebrated Mother Goose Day — two favorite fall activities that helped our students learn all about the role of characters in nursery rhyme, fairy tale, or other story.
On Mother Goose Day, the students dressed up like Snow White and her dwarfs, Little Miss Muffet, Little Bo Peep, Jack in the Beanstalk, Jack and Jill, and other favorite nursery rhyme or fairy-tale characters and paraded through the school hallways and visited elementary classrooms. During their classroom visits, students were challenged to name the characters that the students represented based on their costumes.
The final results are in and our 2021 Race for Education raised $44,107 for our Annual Fund, exceeding our goal by 10% and raising over $4,000 more than last year’s Race. Thank you to our 20 Event Sponsors, 30 Classroom Sponsors, and hundreds of other donors, our student and teacher participants, and volunteers for making our 2021 Race for Education fundraiser a super success. Event Coordinator Christian Delacruz congratulated Jenna Howard, in Mrs. Kelley’s PK4A class, as the Student Grand Prize Winner during the December 10 Early Ed/Kindergarten Chapel.
Our kindergarten classes enjoyed a fun-filled day at Storybook Land on Wednesday, October 10, a favorite annual fall field trip. They rode the nursery-rhyme themed rides, went on a hayride, and picked and decorated pumpkins. Students have been learning that stories are made up of characters, and so they spent the day identifying characters from favorite stories who were in the park. Thank you to kindergarten teachers Hayley Price and Julie Reilly, their aides, and our parent chaperones for helping make great memories with our students.
