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Reading to Kids News
November 2, 2023
 

Dear Friends of Reading to Kids,

Prince Selvage is one of our rock star volunteers at Charles White Elementary - and at our October 14th reading clubs he got a delightful surprise from one of the 4th graders he read to that morning!

Cynthia Montes 100th Name Badge
Click on the above to see it full-sized!

27 MORE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
FOR NOV. 11TH READING CLUBS!

Reading to Kids at Politi Elem.

Our Seasons & the Natural World reading clubs are filling up, so submit your RSVP today!

If you join our November 11th Facebook Event your friends will see you'll be attending, which may inspire them to join you.

Please also print out this flyer and post it where lots of folks will see it. Make it a personal and fun social event by including the school at which you'll be reading. 

You can also use this easy message template to reach out to your friends and co-workers.

November is our college spirit month, when we count the college logos volunteers wear that morning to see which college shows the most spirit. Will you recruit the most volunteers from your school and win the competition?

Volunteers wearing their college logos at Reading to Kids
(Above image is from before the pandemic.
Click on it to see it full-sized!)
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PLEASE STEP UP TO A BIGGER VOLUNTEER ROLE
AT OUR NOV. 11TH READING CLUBS

Veteran volunteers help out with logistics

With only three employees at Reading to Kids, you can see we rely on dedicated Site Coordinators to keep our program running smoothly each month.

We also need experienced volunteers to help train new and returning volunteers, be a GLC, or especially to be an Operations Helper and reader at any of our schools.

If you can help in any of those roles, please visit our home page at www.readingtokids.org and submit your email address in the yellow box, as usual!

Then, e-mail us at info@readingtokids.org to tell us the above role you would like to take on to help create wonderful reading clubs!

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READING TO KIDS AMBASSADORS
WANTED NEXT WEEK!

Volunteers at Charles White Elementary

Next week for an hour or two between 7:30am and 2:30pm, we need your help conducting quick classroom walk-throughs to encourage kids to come to our November 11th reading clubs.

This can be a lot of fun and we'll provide everything you need. Please reply to info@readingtokids.org or call the office at (310) 479-7455 if you can be an Ambassador for an hour or two next week!
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READING TO KIDS
25TH ANNIVERSARY
PARTY PLANNERS WANTED

Our Special Events Committee is in the early planning stages of creating our 25th Anniversary party next year on May 11th!

Please e-mail us at info@readingtokids.org if you would like to help plan that party!

Reading to Kids Annual Fund Drive

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EIGHT RUNNERS WANTED FOR THE
2024 LA MARATHON,
13.1 MILE CHARITY CHALLENGE,
OR 5K!

Do you know any runners? Are you a runner? Please forward this email to them and ask them to join Team Reading to Kids in the 2024 Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday, March 17th!

 Team Reading to Kids logo

This is our 10th time running the marathon, and we're looking for at least three more marathon runners and five Charity Challenge runners (the last 13.1 miles of the course) to join us in one of the best marathons in the country.

If either of those distances is too daunting, you can join us in the LA Big 5K (that's just 3.1 miles) near Dodger Stadium the day before the marathon on Saturday, March 16, 2024.

You can share this Facebook group with any of your runner friends to encourage them to join our team!

If you or a runner you know is interested in becoming one of our fundraising runners or creating a fundraising team, please email Chris Martin at marathon@readingtokids.org!

IMPORTANT NOTE: To register to run on behalf of Reading to Kids, you MUST receive from us a special web address to use when registering on the Los Angeles Marathon website.

Team Reading to Kids 5K runners
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Thank you very much, and we really hope to see you and your friends at our November 11th reading clubs!

Sincerely,

Charlie Orchard, Yancy Rodriguez Coe, & Ciara Kelly
Reading to Kids
1600 Sawtelle Blvd, Suite 210
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 479-7455
(310) 479-7435 (FAX)
info@readingtokids.org
www.readingtokids.org
www.facebook.com/readingtokids
www.twitter.com/readingtokids
www.readingtokids.blogspot.com

Make a donation:
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NOVEMBER 2023
Reading Club RSVPs
School RSVPs Capacity
Alta Loma 25 25
Esperanza 29 29
Gratts 20 20
Los Angeles 33 41
MacArthur Park 32 32
Magnolia 34 38
Politi 22 28
White 20 30
TOTAL 216 243
NOVEMBER Books. . .
Kindergarten book
Kindergarten
First Grade book
First Grade
Second Grade book
Second Grade
Third Grade book
Third Grade
Fourth Grade book
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade book
Fifth Grade

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