Comet Chase Lap-a-thon (Annual Jog-a-thon)
Description
Comet Chase Lap-a-thon
RESCHEDULED DUE TO RAIN, NEW DATE IS APRIL 7, 2025
General Event Info
Attention: The Comet Chase Lap-a-thon (Ladera’s annual jog-a-thon) was originally planned to be on Friday, March 14 and is our school’s biggest fundraiser of the year! The date had to be postponed due to rain and the new date is now April 7, 2025.
Comet Chase donations help pay for our Garden Teacher, Maker space & its specialist teacher, Music Specialist for the lower grades, and some Creation Rotation classes like Snapology & more! They also offset costs for Field trips for every grade level, pay for some Assemblies, and put on the fabulous Family Fun events like Movie Nights, Big Boo, Cupid BINGO, and so much more! Thats right, it's the PTA that pays for these wonderful programs that our kiddos have all come to know and love so we really need everyone's help to make it a super successful fundraiser and event.
Even better, because we run this event ourselves, 100% of the profits stay at our school to pay for the cool programs and specialist teachers as mentioned above. Every single student at STARS Academy benefits!
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Lap-a-thon T-shirt Info
WINNER of the T-shirt contest:
Nila from 5th Grade Mrs. Keatt's Class!!
*PLEASE NOTE: All students & staff will receive ONE FREE Lap-a-thon t-shirt.*
*T-Shirt ordering is now closed*
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Participation
** ALL students will participate in this event as long as the PTA receives their permission slip. EVERY child will also receive a popsicle after the race if they want one.**
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Prizes - Individual, School-Based, Classroom-Based, & 'Day Of'
Individual: there are individual prizes students can earn depending on how much they are able to raise. A weekly report is pulled on Saturday evening, sorted on Sunday, and then delivered to classes every Monday during the course of our Comet Chase fundraising. Classroom delivery days will be: 2/10, 2/18, 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, & 3/18
Winners of the top earner prizes (1st, 2nd, 3rd & top earning family) will be announced at the awards ceremony 3/14. **2nd UPDATE: Due to it being postponed, fundraising has been extended until Monday April 7, 2025. Prizes will continue to go out every Monday until then (3/24, & 3/31, 4/7, & 4/14) !
School -wide: there are also many school-wide prizes that ALL students get to experience (no matter if they are able to individually earn) based on funds raised school-wide. These are super fun activities and it is our hope that we are able to raiser enough money to ensure our students get to experience all the various fun school-wide prizes we have in store of them!
Classroom based: The different classes often also have prizes they can earn too based on class standings. Plus the top earning class from TK-2 & 3-5 get the highly coveted GOLDEN SHOE award!! Top Classes to be announced at the awards ceremony 3/14.**UPDATE: Due to it being postponed, fundraising has been extended until Monday April 7, 2025. Top Classes will be announced at the closing ceremony.
Day Of Awards: The runners with the most laps (boy & girl) from every class get an award at the closing ceremony. Every grade top runner (boy & girl) also gets an additional award! Day of Awards will be announced at the awards ceremony 3/14. **UPDATE: Due to it being postponed, these awards will be given out during closing ceremony of the Comet Chase which is now scheduled for Monday April 7, 2025.
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Collecting Pledges (raising money)
Funds can be raised via cash or check using a paper pledge form
Funds can also be raised via online! This year we are continuing to use 99pledges. Families were sent a email on 2/7/25 with their admin page for each child. You can also locate a child's page via going to 99pledges.com/funds/laderastar1 and then inputting the childs name. There you can click to donate or click to share the page via email/social media. For more info about 99pledges, there is a quick start guide.
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Volunteering
We need volunteers from EACH class 'Day Of' to help with lap marking, popsicle distribution, and spraying hair! If you can help please contact your room parent to coordinate this.
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Race Schedule
PLEASE NOTE: Due to rain we had to postpone so the Comet chase is no longer going to be March 14. New DATE IS NOW APRIL 7, 2025. The below schedule will be the same
* please note: opening ceremonies where the classes parade around their class banners will be at 0830 and lasts approx 10 mins or so *
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Other fun options available for purchase
Shout Outs: For $1 each, families can purchase a shout out(s) for their child(ren) to be announced overhead during their racing time.
Blue Hair Spray: Students can also get the top of their hair sprayed blue, green, or red after their race for $1 as another option
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Progress Updates
$ 50,603 RAISED SO FAR... We made our goal! Lets keep Going!
Earned prizes
Free dress Day - Feb 28
Dress your Fav Decade Day - March 13
Wild Hair & Mismatch Day - March 25
Mrs. Dove Surprise - Date TBD
School-Wide Domino's Pizza Party - set for May 9
Movie's in your PJ's Day - set for June 11 during school
Foam Party - set for May 30
Location
Ladera STARS Academy
Date/Time(s)
Monday, April 7, 2025
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