2024 Wildwood Jog-A-Thon!
March 28, 2024
This newsletter is your "one stop shop" for all the information about Wildwood's 2024 Jogathon! Please take a few minutes to read through as well as fill out forms for your student(s) and register on Get Movin. This Wednesday, February 28, students will come home with their pledge sheet as well as a few other flyers with this information as well! We're very excited for all the fun themes, prizes, and activities planned for our Wildwood Tigers.
Tigers Run Wild
Thursday, Mar 28, 2024, 08:30 AM
Wildwood Elementary School, Velarde Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
Get Movin' Fundraising
Once again, Wildwood has teamed up with Get Movin’ Fund Hub to help collect credit card donations from family and friends who live out of town! Each page is secure, and you will control what information will be displayed for your child. Only people you share the link with can view your child’s fundraising page. Get Movin’ Fundraising will take a small percentage of any online credit card donations made. We also allow and encourage corporate matching!
Wildwood will keep 100% of all cash and check donations.
You can find Wildwood’s 2024 Jog-a-Thon website HERE or via the QR code
Every student receives a Wildwood Jogathon t-shirt thanks to the PTA! Please fill out this form by Friday, March 1, indicating your child's size as well as permission to participate in the jogathon.
During the jogathon kickoff assembly this week, classes will randomly draw for their color shirt & then will come up with a creative class name!
Schedule of Events
TK/Kinder/1st
Warm Up - 8:30-8:40
Jog - 8:40-8:55
Cool Down - 8:55-9:05
2nd/3rd
Warm Up - 9:05-9:15
Jog - 9:15-9:30
Cool Down - 9:30-9:45
4th/5th
Warm Up - 9:50-10:00
Jog - 10:00-10:15
Cool Down - 10:15-10:30
Volunteers Needed!
Tally Punchers: will be assigned to a small group of students to punch their tally card as they complete each lap!
Emcee: Broken down into shifts based on grade levels running. Feel free to sign up for one 45-minute shift for a different grade level so you can watch your child run!
Cool Down Station: Help pass out otter pops & bananas after running.
Please use THIS LINK to sign up. Any questions, reach out to tracyoder@gmail.com
Don't forget volunteers and visitors must sign in at the office. Thanks in advance for your help!
Important Dates
Friday, March 1: T-Shirt sizes and permission slip due!
Thursday, March 28: Jogathon event for all students
Tuesday, April 9: All Jogathon Pledge Money Due
Friday, April 19: School-wide BBQ if donations are received from each state
Friday, May 17: Food and Fun Night for Top Earning Grade
Friday, June 7: All School Futboleros assembly for reaching $65,000 goal
Friday, June 7: Slime assembly for meeting goal of $250
Banners
In addition to banners, we also have yard signs! You can pick up a blank one in the office, take it home & decorate it with encouraging words/phrases, and return to campus where they will be displayed around the track during the jogathon. You can leave a suggested donation of $10 when you pick up your yard sign.
Sample Yard Sign
Sample Student Banner
Event Goals
- The Jog-A-Thon is our largest fundraiser of the year and has allowed us to reduce the number of fundraisers over the years. In previous years, the event has brought in over $80,000.
- With your help, we hope to raise enough money to allow Wildwood PTA to continue to fund much-needed enrichment programs that are not provided by the school district – PE, STEAM, Art Masters, Red Ribbon Week, Abilities Awareness, Computer Lab, and Instructors as well as fun and educational assemblies for our Tigers. Without your generous support, these programs would not be possible for our students.
***For the top 3 earners: In the event of a tie for 1st place, the winners will split the 1st and 2nd place prizes. In the event of a tie for 2nd place, the winners will split the 2nd and 3rd place prizes. In the event of a tie for 3rd place, winners will split the 3rd place prize.
In an effort to be more earth-friendly we are asking that students bring their own water bottles to Jog again this year. Water bottles will stay with each class, but please LABEL your student's water bottle so we can return it if it gets misplaced. We will still have water stations around the track for the runners during the jog-a-thon!