Jan Morrow, Rotary Club of Barstow, Barstow, CA
2011 marks our 8th year in partnership with the Dictionary Project to provide a dictionary to every 3rd grade student in eight elementary schools in Barstow Unified School District and three elementary schools in Silver Valley Unified School District. The Rotary Club of Barstow is committed in working to improving literacy in our community and these dictionaries make that possible. Thanks to you and... Read More
Ralph Colfer, Augusta Elks Lodge # 964, Augusta, ME
We are in our 5th year of this project and the purpose of the project is to provide each student with a dictionary that can be used at school and at home to help them with their daily work and improve their English, spelling, writing and vocabulary skills and hopefully help to reduce the high rate of illiteracy reported in these schools and affiliated... Read More
James, Springfield Elks Lodge # 51, Kenwood Elementary School, Springfield, OH
Dear Mr. Schilling and Elks Lodge, Thank you for the dictionary! I think you are very nice. I like the book because it has a lot of words I could not even write. Words like dice and Tennessee. I always wanted a dictionary and now I finally have one. Now, I can look up words wherever I go. It helps me pronounce words, too.... Read More
Mckenzie, Springfield Elks Lodge # 51, Kenwood Elementary School, Springfield, OH
Dear Mr. Schilling and Elks Lodge, Thank you the dictionary. I wrote the date so when I look in my dictionary in twenty years from now I’ll know I got this dictionary on December 1, 2010. I like this dictionary because it has lots of words, sign language, and it has information about the presidents all the way up to Barack Obama. So, thank... Read More
Patricia Henninger, Prairie Grange # 1832, Garden Prairie, IL
We love this project and so do our students and teachers.
Julie Trost, Black Hawk County Republican Women, Waterloo, IA
RWBHC has participated in this project for the last five or six years. RWBHC will continue this project because it is a great learning tool for 3rd graders. You can tell how excited they are when each student receives his/her own to use at home and school.
Tom Heanue, Rotary Club of Hattiesburg-Sunrise, Moselle, MS
We have done this for many years and love it.
Carole Wolfe, Williams County Retired Teachers Assoc., Bryan, OH
We love the dictionary project.
Michael, Rotary Club of Mountainside, Deerfield Elementary School, Mountainside, NJ
Dear Mr. Mortimer and Members of the Mountainside Rotary Club, Thank you for the thesaurus! I have been using it every day in my writing. One time I looked up the word "great" and I got "spectacular." My writing has gotten a lot better. Every day I bring it to and from school, so I always get super words. Thank you for the thesaurus... Read More
Lola Rickey, Diamond Lake Grange # 506, Newport, WA
Our 3rd grade teachers really appreciate the dictionaries.