They call it a dictionary, but several flips through the pages of the lexicons third-graders in Henderson County are receiving these days, and you could say it`s much more than that.
Last fall the Potsdam Elks Lodge visited 10 local elementary schools to give dictionaries to their third graders.
Lodge members distributed 74 dictionaries to third-grade students at Central Elementary School. Pictured with their new dictionaries are third-grade students Ellee and Blaine.
The Johnson City Rotary Club and the Benevolent Order of the Elks, Johnson City, worked together this year to present dictionaries to all third graders at Johnson City Middle School, Oxford Central
The Fort Scott Rotary Club recently completed its seventh year participating in the third-grade dictionary project.
The Woodson County Republican Women visited with Yates Center Elementary School third graders.