Promoting and strengthening the relationship between home and school
Giving your children the best
environment to thrive and learn
Join us for a fun school fundraiser that inspires students to embrace the joy of reading for life! As they dive into their favorite books, students will keep track of all the time they spend reading.
Meanwhile, friends and family can cheer them on by making donations to support their reading journey. Plus, there are fantastic prizes up for grabs as a reward for their hard work! Let's make reading an exciting adventure together!
About this fundraiser:
Please help support your student during the Barranca Bookworms Read-a-Thon! Encourage K-2nd students to read 20-minutes a night and 3rd-6th students to read 30 minutes a night for 10 days (March 3rd-12th) by contributing to their campaign! Students can earn fun prizes such as personal-pan pizzas, SALA movie tickets, and Pie a teacher in the face for reading as a school!
All students who read an average of 20-minutes/night (Pre-K-2) or 30-minutes/night (Grades 3-6) will receive a FREE Papa Murphy’s personal pan pizza
All students who read an average of 60- minutes/night will receive a $5 coupon for free book at March Book Fair! + prize for reading 20/30-min per night (free pizza)
Top Reader in Each Classroom (most minutes read) will receive a Free Movie ticket to SALA
The class with the most minutes read in each grade will get to pie their teacher in the face
Top Reader in school (most minutes read) will receive a $25 gift card to choice of favorite local spot (golf course, Studio on the Mesa, Galaxy, Papa Murphy’s, SALA Sugar and Cream, for free Bobcat Spirit Wear, etc!)
Level 1: Read a total of 100,000 minutes (average of 20- minutes per day for Pre-K-2 and 30 minutes per day for grades 3-6)
Level 2: Read a total of 125,000 minutes
Level 3: Read a total of 150,000 minutes
Level 4: Read a total of 175,000 minutes
Level 5: Read a total of 200,000 minutes
Next PTO Meeting (Mar. 12th) at 6:00 pm at SALA Event Center
Join us March 12th, 2025 for our monthly PTO meeting at 6:00pm at SALA EVENT CENTER at 2551 Central Avenue Los Alamos, NM 87544.
Join the PTO
We had an amazing year last year! We raised nearly $30,000 for our school, and we had a blast.
We want to do even better this year. In order to achieve that, we are hoping that every Barranca parent will help with one event this year.
Ways you can volunteer:
Volunteer at an event
Support our website or social media site
Help plan one of our events
Many hands make light work—so please join us!!
You can also Donate!
If this isn’t a season where you have time to volunteer with PTO, please support our efforts by attending our events and donating to the cause!
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BMES READ-A-THON
March 3rd -12th
Details still being ironed out, but this event will coincide with Dr. Seuss’s birthday and will include a spirit week! Stay tuned for further details!
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BMES FIELD DAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 25th 2025
School-wide event during school hours, PARENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Email MR. KRIS P, our PE teacher, he is heading up this event!
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Bobcat Bonanza
Friday, May 16th 4:30-7:00pm
Our fun school carnival style event with even more inflatables!
Upcoming events.
About Barranca Mesa PTO
Membership in the PTO automatically includes parents and legal guardians of the students currently enrolled at Barranca Mesa Elementary School,
all Barranca Mesa Elementary School administrators, teachers and support staff, members of the organization shall be eligible to participate in the business meetings or to serve in any elective or appointive positions.
Barranca Mesa Elementary PTO is a 501(c)(3) non -profit organization committed to an environment that is free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability, gender, sexual orientation or age.
Our mission is to promote and strengthen the relationship between home and school to give the children of Barranca Mesa Elementary the best environment to thrive and learn.
