Young students get dictionaries courtesy of New Milford Area Rotary
The New Milford Area Rotary participates in The Dictionary Project by providing dictionaries to third graders attending Susquehanna County schools. The Rotary recently distributed dictionaries to students in the Lathrop Elementary School and Choconut Elementary School in Montrose Area School District. The students are pictured in the accompanying photographs. Lathrop Street Elementary Third Grade β […]
Message from Paul Minton, Noblesville, Indiana
I gave a dictionary to my 3rd grade great granddaughter and she was very excited to receive it and when she showed it to her classmates, they wanted one. They attend Hamilton Heights Elementary in Cicero, Indiana. Thank you for letting me purchase books because they are very exciting for the students to read. Thanks […]
The Rotary Club of Cochran
April 19, 2016, Dear Sir or Madam, The Cochran Rotary Club has been giving dictionaries to third graders ever since 2001. We give them to the third graders at Bleckley County Elementary School. One year after the students had had the dictionaries for about 5 months the third grade at this school scored first […]
Ms. Nancy Mascio, Bridgewater Grange #153, CT
The dictionaries are great this year. The children love them. I many go back to the classrooms to do a lesson or two on using the dictionary. They also want to see my unabridged dictionaries and my Braille books. It’s so nice to see children excited about words. I taught 2nd grade for 35 years, […]
The Rotary Club of Fillmore Kicks Off Another Year of Participation
The Rotary Club of Fillmore, California, participated in a Dictionary Project this week. Several members visited all five elementary schools in our school district and delivered a dictionary to each third grade student. Two classes were made up of 2nd and 3rd graders so we gave to everyone. In total there were 13 classrooms. After […]
Aileen Ayers, Rotary Club of Caledonia-Mumford, Caledonia, NY
The Third Graders were excited to have their very own dictionary, hugging and clapping. When they saw their names on the books, we received cheers, hugs, and “thank yous.” I look forward to being able to share the dictionaries with next year’s children. Aileen Ayers
District Governor Rod Chisholm, Lions of Texas
PDG Cal and Lion Joyce Lawson of the Converse Lions Club, on behalf of their grand-daughter Isabella Lawson, donated student dictionaries to her class and four other grade classes at Longs Creek Elementary School. Principal, Mr. Ford, and teacher Mrs. Carlin (project coordinator) presented letters of appreciation as well as thank-you notes from all the […]
Carla Till, Rotary Club Of Rome, NY
All of the dictionaries have been delivered. The teachers and students are happy!
Frances Applegate, Hays, KS
Dear Good People, I am sending some of the letters that I received as a thank you from the 4th graders at Washington Elementary in Hays – to whom I give dictionaries. The school principals here decided the books would work best with the higher grade when I started 10 years ago. I think these […]
Joe McKay, Lifetime Learning Program, Greenport, NY
Thanks to you all for making the Dictionary Project a big success in this, our tenth year. We now distribute about 325 personalized dictionaries to Third Graders at 9 schools on the North Fork plus East Quogue and Shelter Island. Everyone loves the Dictionary Project! β¦ the teachers, staff and principals who help us here […]