In these days of laptop computers, electronic media of all types, and spell checks, it is refreshing to see children excited about something such as a dictionary.
Guilford--`You can look it up!` becomes the answer to many of the questions third graders have when they have their own dictionaries.
The Rotary Club of St. Paul has participated in the Dictionary Project for now the fifth straight year.
Now in its sixth year in Kuna, The Dictionary Project is distributing 457 student dictionaries to every third grader in the Kuna school district and Falcon Ridge Charter School.
The Kiwanis Club of Allen Park visited elementary schools in the city to deliver dictionaries to third graders.
Children and books are the best of combinations. Give children books and they are shown the doors to their own independence, creativity and life-long learning.