Rotary Club Delivers Dictionaries to Jackson Intermediate School in Alabama
This past November, 14 members of the Rotary Club of Jackson delivered 696 dictionaries to all third graders in Choctaw, Clarke, and Washington counties. Each dictionary includes a Rotary label with the Four-Way Test and is hand presented to each student. During the Rotary’s presentation, members explain that the Four-Way Test is the Rotary’s business code of ethics which helps individuals make ethical decisions... Read More
Catoosa Citizens for Literacy Conducts Seventh Annual Dictionary Project
Catoosa Citizens for Literacy recently conducted the seventh annual dictionary project. Catoosa Citizens for Literacy purchases approximately 800 dictionaries each year and distributes them to the third graders at every elementary school in Catoosa County. During the presentation, Phil Ledbetter, co-chairman for Catoosa Citizens for Literacy stresses the importance of graduating from high school. The motto of the school system is always included in the... Read More
Rotary Club of Redlands’ Service Projects Include Giving Dictionaries to Third-Graders in Redlands Unified School District
Rotary Club of Redlands delivered free dictionaries to third-graders in 16 elementary schools in the Redlands Unified School District. To fund the project, members host an annual “Red, Wine and Blue” event and have even auctioned off a car. “It is a great project for all involved, we get several letters from the students and the parents telling us how much they appreciate the... Read More
Waseca Lions Donate Dictionaries to Third-Graders
Waseca Lions Club recently distributed dictionaries to all third-graders in Waseca’s three elementary schools. Lion Jay Sopkowiak is shown with Mrs. Altmann’s Hartley third graders. Lion Diane Beckmann and Lion Becky Dennis also gave out books at the three schools. With each student owning a book, the teachers will have the opportunity to emphasize pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, reading, language and writing skills needed for... Read More
Charleston, WV Elks Distribute Dictionaries to Kanawha County School District
The Charleston Elks Lodge #202 in West Virginia participated in The Dictionary Project again this fall, donating over 400 books to students in Kanawha County School District. Both teachers and students look forward to the Elks’ presentation each year. The Elks spend time in each classroom talking with the students and explaining the importance of a dictionary. By giving the gift of a dictionary,... Read More
Mater Dolorosa School Class Gets Dictionaries
Tangipahoa Volunteers for Family and Community Busy Bees, an all-volunteer arm of the LSU Extension Service, visited Karen Wilder’s third-grade class at Mater Dolorosa School in Independence last month to celebrate National Dictionary Project Week. The Bees presented each student in Wilder’s class with a new dictionary. Mary French founded the Dictionary Project in 1995 to provide dictionaries for third-graders in the South Carolina... Read More
Rotary Club Distributes Dictionaries to Local Students
The Rotary Club of the Slate for the third consecutive year as part of the Dictionary Project gave dictionaries to approximately 400 third grade students in all the Slate Belt School Districts and School. This project was the club’s first project when it began. Club members visit the schools and present the dictionaries to the students either in an assembly or class by class.... Read More
Kiwanis Club Makes Annual Dictionary Delivery
Kiwanis Club of Canton once again has completed its annual donation of dictionaries all across the Plymouth-Canton school district. All of the elementary schools from Allen to Workman were recipients of this year’s book distribution. Walker-Winter Elementary in the Wayne-Westland School District was also included, since it has a large Canton population enrolled. “Students get to discover all of the fun facts in their... Read More
Winona Rotary Provides Free Dictionaries to Area Third-Graders
Winona-area third-graders this week awaited an early holiday gift: a free dictionary, just for them. Thursday and Friday, members of the Rotary Club of Winona supplied and delivered free dictionaries to every third-grade student – public, private and charter – in Winona County. They did it as part of the club’s dictionary project, now in its ninth year, designed to help promote literacy among... Read More
Students in Wa-Nee Community Schools Receive Dictionaries from the Rotary Club of Nappanee
he Rotary Club of Nappanee has participated in The Dictionary Project for five years, donating over 1,000 books to students in Wa-Nee Community Schools. This year, Dennis Martin, dictionary project chairman for the Rotary Club, presented the books to ten third grade classes. He opened the presentation by asking students if they knew anything about Rotary. Martin explained to each class that Rotary is... Read More