BEAT-THE-TEACH CONTEST! Spring creek’s annual BEAT-THE-TEACH CONTEST!

The Beat-the-Teach contest started many years ago at Spring Creek The Beat-the-Teach contest started many years ago at Spring Creek. It has changed some over the years, but the point of the contest has remained the same. The purpose is to get students to read more and have a little friendly competition at the same time.

Here is how it works: 1. Come into the library and sign up under one adult’s name during the sign-up period (there will be a folder on the counter). 413 people participated last year. 2. Any pages you read during the contest period (approximately 7 weeks) can count. You will turn in the pages to your Language Arts Teacher each week along with the title & author. He/she will give you the form you need to log your information on. Your teacher will verify your information and submit it to me. 3. Each week there will be a prize for the person that has read the most pages THAT ROUND. 4. At the end of the contest, every active, honest participant that has read at least 200 pages and turned in information at least 3 of the 7 weeks will receive a donut. Each person that Beats-the- Teach will also get a book or poster, and if a student Beats-the-Teach AND all the students in his/her group, he/she will also get another prize from the community!

Our top prizes usually include: Our additional donated prizes come from business and are greatly appreciated. Our top prizes usually include: A FAMILY, SEASON PASS TO THE AQUATIC CENTER (worth hundreds of dollars) Beaver Mountain Ski Passes Multiple $25 gift certificates Hastings gift certificate Movie Passes Fun Park Passes Eccles Ice Rink Passes Firehouse Pizza Passes Other passes If you know someone that would like to donate a prize, please let me know or have them contact me. The more prizes, the more fun we’ll have! Last year we gave out about $1980.00 worth of prizes!

RULES: 1. Read books that you haven’t read before. 2. Read books that are approximately in your reading and/or interest level. 3. Only count the amount of real pages read & true time spent (take out the portion of the pages that are blank or have pictures). 4. You can count 2 pages for every one page read of a) newspapers b) textbook c) scriptures. 5. Audio books cannot count unless you are reading along with it. It has to be true reading for this contest. 6. Pages & time spent must be turned in to Language Arts teachers on or before the due date (unless you are absent). Others should be able to check the competition.

If we get 30 prizes from the community, we will take the top 30 student readers in our school and have a drawing for those big prizes. We hope this will make it more fun for you. We want you to push reading, but we don’t want you to feel any pressure to maybe stretch your pages and time in order to get a specific prize. PLEASE be totally honest in your reading. You should not just be skimming. You should be reading every word so it is more fair for all participants. It takes most good readers at this age about 1 hour to read 50 pages.

GOOD LUCK and HAPPY READING!