Posted by Charlene Dierks on Feb 06, 2019
 
R - O - T - A - R - Y
 
"This is your dictionary." -  "Now lets do a little exercise." - "Find the word rotary."
 
This just part of the script members use when visiting 11 Lewisville ISD elementary schools this week to deliver dictionaries to 3rd graders. This project not only provides dictionaries to students that they can keep throughout their academic career, it is just plain fun to be part of the team delivering the books and helping them learn.
 
Planning for this project which is partially funded through our clubs fund raising projects and matching funds from The Rotary Foundation started at the beginning of the school year. When the dictionaries were delivered late January our team went to work. Marilyn Pokorny prepared labels. Last Saturday a team of committee chair Charlene Dierks, Ray Bowens, Tom Rowe, Mark Smith, Nancy Smith and Bob Troyer worked to insert the labels in 1028 dictionaries and sign each dictionary. It is a labor of love in preparation for delivery this week.
 
On Tuesday, a team consisting of Tom Rowe, Mark Smith and John Pokorny went to Central ES, Lakeland ES and Garden Ridge ES to deliver the dictionaries. The kids were excited to receive their own dictionary as we had them write their names in the cover and did exercises to help them learn a little about Rotary an how to find the word rotary in the dictionary. 
 
On Wednesay, teams consisting of Samba Sey, Bill Shaw and Tom Rowe are delivering dictionaries to Vickery ES, Independence ES, Creekside ES, Camey ES, Etheridge ES and Morningside ES. Thursday, team members Samba Sey, Marilyn Pokorny and John Pokorny are going to Degan ES and College Street ES for the final day of our project. What follows are several photo's of the fun our team had Tuesday. Hopefully, we will see some photo's from Wednesday and Thursday for future editions of the newsletter.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mark Smith and Tom Rowe providing some one on one with students and their dictionaries
 
 
Samba Sey demonstrating the use of the dictionaries to some really amazed 3rd graders at Degan
 
 
Those expressions say it all...thank you to all that participated in a very successful Dictionary Project
 
 
 
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