Our Rotary club has been donating this dictionary to all 3rd grade students in Beverly since 2005. It is a wonderful program that our community looks forward to each year.

The dictionaries are distributed to students at an assembly for the third grade students. After the distribution of dictionaries I give a short talk about Rotary and volunteering and give the students words and things to look up. It’s great fun.

We think this is a very worthy project, kids love getting them.

The Cisco Rotary Club has been donating dictionaries for about 4 years now. The children are awestruck to have their very own dictionary and all the cool information inside. The elementary teachers absolutely love the program and have high praise for Rotary and the Dictionary Project!

We’ve been participating for five years – it has become our favorite project! The students love receiving dictionaries, and are especially excited about all of the extra civic lessons, math and science facts, and maps in the back of the book. Our club started an endowment (The Fern and Elmer Graber Kiwanis Fund for Children)to pay for the project each year. Several club members... Read More

This is our second year for this project. Enjoy the brightness in the children’s eyes when they are receiving the dictionaries.

‘Kiwanis Clubs changing the world one child, one community at a time’ is our motto. The students are so appreciative when we hand them their book. Its great to see the excitement in the children. What a great program!

This is our Annual Dictionary Project for 3rd Graders. It is our gift of Literacy for the students in the surrounding districts. This is a great project!

We will be distributing the dictionaries to each of the third grades. The teachers are thrilled to have us in the room and spend time introducing us and letting us tell about the work of Rotary. We also ask each class to find something in their new dictionary (map of the US, fact from the pages at the end of the dictionary and a... Read More

The Pahokee Rotary is a service organization serving a small farming community in Pahokee, Florida. By providing dictionaries to all 3rd grade students, we give them a “leg-up” on their educational needs.