THANKS to the generosity of our Walnut Acres Community, we raised $39,780 for our school. We had 51% participation and a combined total of 211,419 minutes read. That is more minutes read and greater participation than last year.
WAY TO GO WAES!!
Congratulations to our WILD about READING Prize winners:
Most Minutes Read Per Class
TK: Jack Byron (Garcia-Roy), Kothai Suresh (Kading), Emma Ferdianto (Ayllon)
KINDERGARTEN: Charlotte Burton (Lie), Arman Beheshti (Andres), James Nabavi Shaening (Rew), Miles Lozano (Carella)
1st GRADE: Aiden Patel (Kasdin), Zakaria Hussaini (Liebe), Mason Byron (Ng)
2nd GRADE: Rachel Kim (Mierzwa), Jordan Connolly (Gerbacio), Owen Clements (Cowles), Carson Corti (Diebel)
3rd GRADE: IsabellaCamille Byrd (Cattalini), Lavish Agarwal (Graves), Felix Gombeski (Perham)
4th GRADE: Clara Karimoto (Hanko), Zahra Hussaini (Buckingham), Kira Burton (Andrada), Madeleine An (Arenson)
5th GRADE: Hunter Pirtle (Ortega), Liam Fudim (Aring), Sergey Gorovoy (Reamy)
Most Money Raised Per Class
TK: Jack Byron (Garcia-Roy), Leo Cohen (Kading), Myles Magnell (Ayllon)
KINDERGARTEN: Lily Cervantes (Lie), Sean Yang (Andres), Rex Taylor (Rew), Eadric Pham (Carella)
1st GRADE: Ella Gerbacio (Kasdin), Eliza Brown (Liebe), Max Willemsen (Ng)
2nd GRADE: Kai Gambhir (Mierzwa), River Wilcox (Gerbacio), Logan Nguyen (Cowles)
3rd GRADE: Eva Smotra (Diebel), Ethan Fudim (Cattalini), Harrison Emrich (Graves), Hannah Willemsen (Perham)
4th GRADE: Harper Shailendra (Hanko), Josephine Girot (Buchingham), Maya Shailendra (Andrada), Ben Auerbach (Arenson)
5th GRADE: Belle Grayson (Ortega), Liam Fudim (Aring), Milo Clements (Reamy)
Top Fundraising Classrooms
Prize: Class Party
TK,K, 1st GRADE: Mrs. Ng – C1 $3,040
2nd-3rd GRADE: Mrs. Perham – C7 $3,634
4th-5th GRADE: Mr. Ortega – D1 $3,213
Gift Cards will be given out to the winners this week. All students will receive a custom sticker for participating as well.
THANK YOU to our amazing teachers, Principal B and all of you for supporting the 2026 Read-A-Thon.
2026 Read-A-Thon Co-Leads,
Steph Albon, Jess Clima, Carla Pedersen