This is our 8th year doing the dictionary project and we have distributed over 2,000 dictionaries!

We go into each classroom, gym, or media center and give out the books, along with color books, bookmarks, and info on our Drug Awareness Programs, through the National Elks Organization. Red pencils given out also when in conjunction with Red Ribbon Week; if we give out books in October we give out Halloween Bags. “Crime Prevention” McGruff the Dog. This is a special... Read More

Fourth year of participating! The kids LOVE the dictionaries. Last year a fifth grader came running down the hall to great us and “show us where to go”, and she proudly waved her dictionary at us and said she “almost knows every word in it”.

This is a great service project that we look forward to each year. We raise the money to fund this project each year by selling poinsettia plants. The teachers look forward to the students getting the books each year now. We have participated for over 5 years. We cover the City of Osceola’s school district while another club takes care of the county school... Read More

I am a teacher and I received dictionaries last year. We used them so much I wanted some for my students this year. So I decided to buy them and donate them myself.

I think this is about the 4th year we have done this. The 3rd graders look forward to this every year. Sometimes their older siblings or friends have had the dictionaries.

The children love the dictionaries, and our club really enjoys this project. Thanks for helping us reach all the third graders in our community.

We have been doing this for seven years, adding Ezra Eby School, where it was not being done, three years ago. It is so well received that the children expect and await our arrival when they reach the 3rd grade.

We are really happy with the program. You do an excellent job with shipping them out. We receive lots of thank you letters, some gut wrenching. This project reminds us what we take for granted.

The school we sponsor is in an underprivileged area and because of that, this may be the only book a child owns. This is the reason we want these dictionaries that not only have words but also information on the make-up of the United States. The leftover dictionaries are given to an after-school program for boys without fathers in another part of town. This... Read More