We are a Rotary Club of 150 members, we have given over 20,000 dictionaries to every third grader in the Pasadena Independent School District for the last 5 years. Every year our club votes to continue this project because the look of joy and happiness on the kids’ faces, and for our members the smiles are priceless…. This is a great project that brings... Read More

This is our 7th year of contributing dictionaries to 3 graders in 9 public and 5 private schools in central Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Each year, the students and their teachers are more appreciative of the donation. My favorite event is the child who sent me a letter of thanks that ended P.S. I used the dictionary to spell Sincerely.

This is one of the literacy efforts we make to encourage the students to be all they can be. Our literacy program starts with a pre-k book a month for each student and a Rotary member reads to those classes on presentation day: we present scholarships for graduating seniors in each of the four school systems we serve. Thanks for your part in making... Read More

The Rotary Clubs of District 7470 have been participating in the dictionary poject for many years. I have been a proud Rotarian for 18 years. I have a son and the project has touched him also.. You have made the project very user friendly..

Dear Dictionary Project, Thank you so much for the wonderful dictionaries you gave the third grade classes here at Socrates! Now that we have them, we can understand things so much better! I have been a student at Socrates Academy for four years: Kindergarten, first, second, and third grades. Third grade is much harder and has many different words that I might not understand.... Read More

Dear Mrs. Anderson, Thank you Mrs. Anderson for the dictionaries that you gave us. Also I’ve learned lots of things in the dictionary. Here is one thing I learned from the dictionary. I’ve learned that adept means to be an expert and highly skilled. But this is something else the worlds longest word. I realy enjoy reading the dictionary. I think it makes me... Read More

Dear Ms. Anderson, Thank you for the dictionies. They are very nice I lerned the Periodic Table of Elements. It is very instresting. Now I know what h2o means. It means water. Na is sodium, Ne is neon., O is Oxgen. When I get to sevinth grade nobody is going to know them and I am going to know all of them. Love, Eric

Dear Ms. Anderson, We are extremely grateful for the very generous donation you provided our children. I cannot express how powerful their reaction was as they received the dictionaries. They were deeply engaged with all the wonderful information included in the dictionaries! It was amazing to see the students exploring the pages and to see their faces light up with excitement at the sight... Read More

Our Club has been reading to the 2nd graders at J.E. Moss Elementary for several years. We added the dictionary project for 3rd graders a couple years ago. This school is heavily immigrant-based and more than a dozen languages are spoken by the students. In many cases, the students are the only ones who speak English in their family. Having these dictionaries really affects... Read More

Last year’s National President of the BPO Elks was and is a big booster of this program. He is the one who made our lodge aware of the program.