Dear California Dictionary Project, My 3rd grade students and I would like to thank you very much for the wonderful gift of dictionaries you provided to our class & school. It is such a worthwhile & generous program to help further the educational needs of elementary aged children. And, the fact that the kids absolutely LOVE their new dictionaries is a win-win for us... Read More

Dear Ms. Mitchell, Please accept my thanks to you and express my appreciation to the North Little Rock Women’s Club for their kindness in remembering the third graders at Sherwood Elementary with dictionaries. I was sorry to have missed the presentation assembly but understand it was very nice. What a surprise to return from my literacy meeting to find that you had also blessed... Read More

 Dear North Little Rock Women’s Club, Thank you so much for your wonderful kindness to our students last week. They absolutely love those fantastic dictionaries. They are reading them voraciously! All the information in the back particularly fascinates them. We have students from all walks of life. Some had dictionaries at home, some did not. Never underestimate the power of a book. Again, our... Read More

Dear Ladies Auxiliary: Thank you so much for the dictionaries the third grade received this year. They are a very useful tool in the classroom and at home. The students have been using them to look up vocabulary words in reading, science, and social studies. They have been learning about guide words, syllables, and pronunciation in spelling/ phonics. We will be doing a unit... Read More

 Dear Evelyn, Thank you so much to the Legion Auxiliary for the dictionaries. The students enjoy receiving them each year. My students this year were looking through them any spare moment they had for a couple days…even taking them outside at recess to read though different words. So they definitely are excited to use them, and they come in handy in the classroom. Thanks... Read More

 Dear Mrs. Jolly and friends, Thank you so very much for the student dictionaries! The children have been thrilled to use them, study them, and own them. I have never seen them so eager to find new words! Thank-you for the Spanish-English dictionary, too. It will be a huge help to me as I have two students with extremely limited English. Even teachers can... Read More

Dear Mrs. Sherwood, Thank you so much for coming to see us again this year! The students are already showing me how they have learned to look up words on their own and how proud they are to own their own dictionaries. Please come again, Mrs. Ruiz  

Dear Mr. Utchen, Thank you so much for presenting each of my students with a dictionary.  I was watching their faces as you explained the value of dictionary skills, and they were totally captivated.  The demonstration and practice that you provided got the students enthused and interested in using their new dictionaries.  Thanks again for taking the time to present such a useful tool.... Read More

 I think the program is wonderful. Every year my class has gotten these, the students have been very excited to see them and have them as their own. They love looking up words and all the extra information. Gail Harris (Riverside Elementary)

 Dear Rotary Members, Thank you so much for the gift of dictionaries you gave to the children and our classroom. They are thrilled to have them and are anxious to use them at any given moment. They often compete to see who can find a word first and share the appropriate definition. I showed them a dictionary that I have had for many years,... Read More