Dictionary Program

Posted by Sandy Warren 
on Jan 29, 2014
 

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Ventura Rotary South Donates Dictionaries
To Local Third Grade Students (Updated!)

For the fourth consecutive year, members of Ventura Rotary South partnered with Ventura Downtown Rotary to donate dictionaries to third graders at local elementary schools. Ventura South purchased about 450 of the student-size dictionaries at a cost of $1.75 each and made visits to Will Rogers, Portola, and Junipero Serra Elementary Schools. Marilyn Scott again coordinated Ventura South's participation, and the dictionaries were presented by Stacy Zaruka, Jack Tingstrom, Bonaventure Wakam, Dante Honorico, Monty Clark, Bob Braitman, and Sandy Warren.

According to Marilyn, the teachers and principals have frequently commented that they love the program. In many cases, the dictionary is the first book that the children get to keep for their own, they can use it for several years before they outgrow it, and it provides consistency in the classroom, which benefits both the students and the teachers. Additionally, the kids always love visitors!

UPDATE!
Shortly after the dictionaries were given out, Marilyn received a batch of thank-you letters from many of the students. Below are selected comments, printed exactly as the students wrote them. Truly an example of Rotary touching the local community. Enjoy!

"Thank you for the awesome dictionary.  It is going to help me with homework and reports and all kinds of stuff.  It made all the class happy.  I am going to use it for so many things.  Thank you Rotary Club."   -Kyra

 
"Thank you for the dictionary.  I have learned a lot from the dictionary.  I have learned about presidents. And how big coloado is. thank you so much for the dictionary."  -Evan
 
"Thank you for the dictionarys. They are super cool and awsome  Thanks for the stickers to.  I think you guys are super doper cool.  I wish dictionarys can fall out of trees every single day.  Thank you so much!"   -Diego
 
"Thank you for the dictionary. I youse it to look up words that I don't know. I also like it because it is fun to look threw it. I also like the stiker that you gave us. Thank you so much and god bless you."  -Christina
 
"Thank you for the awesome dictionary.  My new dictionary has lot of facts.  There is interesting information on the states.  I can work on my multiplication tables with it.  I can learn sign language.  My favorite part is the facts about presidents.  Thank you again for the dictionary.  It was very nice of your group." -Tyler
 
Thank you for the awesome dictionary. My new dictionary is complicated than other dictionaries.  It is fun beuase it has verbs and nouns. My favorite page is the longest word.  I like it because it has strange things that I don't know about. Thank you for everything.  -William