Nichols Hills Elementary School has an annual Rattlesnake Run to help raise money for their school. This money goes to furnish things for the kids at the school. It even helps pay for bus drivers so the children in this school can go on field trips. Each child is ask to get at least $25.00 in donations. Each student then pledges to run at least 1 mile. Since the elementary school does not have a track, the students are bused to one of the middle schools that does have a track. It takes many volunteers to run this race. Three years ago I volunteered to help for an hour and ended up staying all day. Last year Mike and I volunteered to help and stayed all day. This year Amanda, Mike and I all three helped with this. We had so much fun watching kids from 4 years old to 12 years old run at least 1 mile. One four year old ran 1.5 miles in about 20 minutes. Some of them are amazing. Others struggle, but they smile when you encourage them and tell them they can do it. Many parents come just to watch their child run and you can see it on their face how excited they are to have mom or dad there to watch them.
This year many of the middle school students, some who went to this elementary school, came out to cheer on the runners. The cheerleaders dressed in the cheer outfits and stayed out there all day cheering on these little kids. The kids loved it.
Someone else donated water and snacks for the students. They come one grade level at a time. The Pre-K and 6th grade ran together and the rest of the grades were just that one grade. Of course this fun raiser also promotes a healthy lifestyle. I was happy to see that even the students that one might consider over-weight were still able to run/walk their mile. I was proud of them and I know they were proud of themselves.
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