The Neosho Rotary club provided more than 650 area third graders with a free dictionary last month.
The Dictionary Project is an activity the Neosho chapter takes part in each year.
October was "Thesaurus Month" again for county students as Putnam Rotarians passed out personal copies of the reference books to area sixth graders.
With her third-grade classmates at Jefferson Elementary School, Bailey received her new dictionary and immediately delved into it, trying out signing letters from a sign language chart in the back
For seven years, the Rotary Club of Laurel has been collecting funds to participate in The Dictionary Project, donating 2,856 dictionaries to area students.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Decatur Elks Lodge and the Decatur Emblem Club purchased and distributed more than 3,000 dictionaries to students in Morgan, Lawrence, and Limestone Count
The Rotary Club of Baldwinsville, NY, has been involved with the Dictionary Project since 2003.