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
San Bernardino Rotary Club Launches Its Annual Dictionary Project
Rotary Club of San Bernardino kicked off its Dictionary Project last week at Lincoln Elementary School in San Bernardino. Every year, Rotary International members donate dictionaries to third-grade students across the nation. The Rotary Club of San Bernardino serves local students by providing a personal dictionary to every third-grader in the San Bernardino City Unified School District, according to a club news release. According... Read More
Kinderhook Elks Lodge #2530 Completes Annual Dictionary Project
The Kinderhook Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has again donated combination dictionaries/thesauruses to students at Berkshire Jr./Sr. High School. This marks the third year in a row the Elks have provided these important learning resources. Two years ago, as the school was launching its “Writing to Inform” strategy, the Kinderhook Lodge placed more than 100 dictionaries into the hands of... Read More
Lusk Elks Lodge #1797 Donates Dictionaries
Lusk Elks Lodge # 1797 donated dictionaries from “ The Dictionary Project “ to the fifth grade class at LEMS on December 2nd. The Dictionary project is a non profit organization that the Lusk Elks Lodge sponsors to help further Lusk students with their studies. Pictured with the fifth grade class, Class of 2021, is LEMS Principal Rodney Wilhelm, 5th grade teachers Sandra Johnson... Read More
Catalina Mountain Elks Lodge Gives Students Dictionaries
The Catalina Mountain Elks Lodge gave the gift of more than 300 dictionaries to Oro Valley children over the last several weeks. Students at Casas Christian, Copper Creek, Immaculate Heart, Mesa Verde and Wilson elementary schools were the recipients. Catalina Mountain Elks Lodge has participated in the Dictionary Project for 11 years and has provided local students with more than 3,000 dictionaries. Read more:... Read More
The Wausau Noon Optimist Club Donates Dictionaries During American Education Week
Optimist Clubs across the country are dedicated to “Bringing Out the Best in Kids” and doing their part through community service programs. For 11 years, the Wausau Noon Optimist Club in Wisconsin has fulfilled this mission by providing dictionaries to third graders in the public and private schools of Wausau School District. This year the Club donated 727 dictionaries to 18 schools in Marathon... Read More