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Winona Rotary Club donates lexicons to Winona County third-graders
By: Britt Johnsen Winona Daily News
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Donor: Winona Rotary Club |
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Ask 30 third-graders what they want to be when they grow up.
NASCAR racer, said one student Friday at Washington Kosciusko Elementary.
Monster truck driver, another yelled out.
But try spelling those words. An adult volunteer did, and he spelled them wrong on the chalkboard: `NASCAR raser, monsdr trek driver.`
Luckily, the students all had dictionaries in front of them.
Members of the Winona Rotary Club are donating dictionaries to every third-grader in Winona County. Volunteers handed out 648 Thursday and Friday at public, private and charter schools.
The project is a first for the service club, which hopes to continue it in the future, though they don`t have specific plans just yet.
The idea started in South Carolina in the early 1990s, and service clubs such as rotary organizations are doing such projects all over the country now.
`It`s something that everyone feels good about,` said Rod Baker, a member of the Rotary Club and chairman of the dictionary project committee.
The idea is to promote literacy to students who are learning about spelling and alphabetical order, said Donna Helble, former Rotary Club president and current member. This is a critical point in their education, she said.
She said she received dictionaries at this age that she kept until after she graduated from high school. Even Washington Kosciusko principal Judy Davis said she kept her first dictionary throughout her school years.
Baker said that`s one way he hopes this project makes an impact on these students.
`We hope they`ll be able to use these for years to come,` Baker said.
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Original Article available at :
http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2007/04/14/news/01lead0414.txt For more information, please contact :
Britt Johnsen can be reached at (507) 453-3519 or bjohnsen@winonadailynews.com. |
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| We request that any clubs that have implemented the
project send copies of the newspaper coverage or pictures that they want to
share to: The Dictionary Project, Post Office Box 1845, Charleston, SC 29402 .
Articles and photos will be added to the website to share with other clubs.
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