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Reading & Activity Challenges
This summer, read beyond the beaten path! Log the minutes you read, share book reviews and/or complete activities to earn digital badges and rewards. Our challenge was built to keep the entire family entertained all Summer long. Inside you will find activities you can do together with family and friends, as well as activities to inspire you while alone. We encourage caregivers of all forms to be the example and participate along with their students, kids, grandkids or siblings.
There is something for everyone!
Earn 5 digital raffle tickets for every badge you complete.
Earn ANY 5 badges to complete the challenge.
Want more chances to win big?
Keep going! Just because you completed the challenge doesn't mean you can't keep earning digital raffle tickets. You have until 11:59 on August 12, 2022 to earn as many tickets as you can.
Use your digital raffle tickets to win incentives like outdoor toys, camping gear, and even kayaks! You heard that right,
K-A-Y-A-K-S
So what are you still doing here? Get outside and Read Beyond the Beaten Path!
Explore our universe with the James Webb Space Telescope Challenge. Learn all about the science behind NASA’s newest space telescope mission, the James Webb Space Telescope. Scheduled to launch this winter, JWST is the most advanced infrared space telescope ever launched and will allow us to look deeper into time and space than ever before!
Here’s How it Works
- Earn your five activity badges by completing science-based tasks between December 18, 2021-July 31, 2022.
- Earn digital raffle tickets to use towards prizes.
1000 Things Before Kindergarten
Reading, writing, singing, playing and talking with your child helps young brains develop like little muscles, getting bigger and stronger the more you and your family interact with your child. We have created a challenge for you and your family based upon the five basic pillars of parenting. The Basics are five fun, simple, and powerful ways to help all our children aged 0-5 grow to be happy and smart.
Derived from the program, 1000 Books Before Kindergarten, 1KTB4K expands the concept to include STEAM and social/emotional behaviors, such as singing songs and nursery rhymes; playing peekaboo; dancing to music; playing with blocks; and counting aloud. Books and activities may be repeated as many times as interests the child, since repetition is a valuable learning tool.
How can I participate?
If you created an account for any of our other reading challenges, log into your existing Beanstack account. If you have not created an account, do so at botetourtva.beanstack.org or on the Beanstack App
What if I don't want to participate online?
Don't worry! Download and print the paper reading log to get started.
Have questions?
Click here to read some of our FAQs.
How to Sign Up
How can I participate?
If you created an account for any of our other reading challenges, log into your existing Beanstack account. If you have not created an account, do so at botetourtva.beanstack.org or on the Beanstack App. Learn how to use Beanstack in this tutorial.