By: Greer Baker and Mina Grace Larraquel, third graders The Current
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Donor: Rotary Club of Washington, DC
Last October, the Rotary Club of Washington, D.C., gave our class student dictionaries. Each student received his or her own dictionary. This was great because before we got them we had to share dictionaries. Now, each morning we use our dictionaries duing `Dictionary Question of the Day` time.
Every week we have a student quizzer who has to work with our teacher the day before to decide the next day`s question or questions. The next morning, our teacher puts the questions on the board, and we all get our dictionaries. Usually we have more than one question. The quizzer can only pick one person at a time to answer a question, b... Click to read full story ...
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By: John Kelly The Washington Post
Friday, October 27, 2006
Donor: Rotary Club of Washington
To be honest, I had not expected such a reaction to the news that every third-grader at Birney Elementary School in Southeast Washington was about to get his or her very own dictionary.
A dictionary ? That inert and antiquated repository of words?
And yet, the class erupted in cheers when Principal Charles Webb made the announcement yesterday. Possibly it was his carnival barker build-up.
`How many of you like to read books?` he asked the students in Mr. Bailey `s class.
Hands shot up.
`How many of you like to have your own books?`
Hands stayed up.
`How many of you would like to hav... Click to read full story ... | | Kimiko Gregg, a third-grade teacher at Birney Elementary School, guides Mynique, 8, through a dictionary donated to her by the Rotary Club of Washington. (By John Kel... |
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Rotarians Dole Out Free Dictionaries to D.C. Third-Graders
By: Valerie Strauss, Staff Writer Washington Post Page B01
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Donor: Rotary Club of Washington
Eight-year-old Gami-Lou liked the definitions.
Deavyn, her 8-year-old classmate, was excited about the pages on sign language and the planets and `all sorts of stuff.`
Gami-Lou, right, shares information in her dictionary with classmate Deavyn at Adams Elementary School in Northwest Washington. (Gerald Martineau -- The Washington Post) Shirley Holmes, their teacher at Adams Elementary School in the District, was delighted that every third-grader in her class -- indeed, in the whole city -- was receiving a free dictionary to take home and use to help explore the wonders of the English language.
The na... Click to read full story ... | | A student holding A Student`s Dictionary donated by the Rotart Club of Washington. |
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