The Fun Run

One of the great things about Jackson's school is that they only do one fundraiser a year. After doing at least 30 fundraisers over the last three years at the preschool, this was quite a delightful surprise. (It's not even October and the fundraisers are over!)

Each September, the children ask for people to pledge to donate money for each lap that they run. They are given a certain amount of time depending on the grade. The kindergartners were given 15 minutes this year. They started out the race by playing the Olympic song and having the kids stretch. There was music playing to pump them up. It was such a cute activity. Jackson had so much fun and was very serious. He ran very hard. At the end of each lap they were given a rubber band. By the end of his time, he had run around 12 times. The lap was pretty big and I thought that he might run around five times but oh how wrong I was. Of course, there were parents cheering. I tried to entice Luke to get in on the action, but he wasn't having it. He would have loved to be in bed napping and once he saw the giant Sponge Bob character running around, he was utterly terrified. The kids were even given t-shirts, a nice idea, but in my opinion they could have saved on that and kept more money for the school. It was a fun day and a nice healthy idea.