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Diana Graff, chairman of this project for
the Rotary Club, has been doing this for two years now and enjoys giving
to the students.
`I was a third grade teacher for many
years,` she said. `I know they can use these because this is the year they
really get into writing. It's a great project.`
The teachers don't mind the help. They
really appreciate it in fact. Three Peaks Elementary School teacher
Krysten Ball loves it for more than one reason.
`It's wonderful,` she said. `Being a new
school and a new teacher, it's great to have new things.`
Her students were the first at Three Peaks
Elementary to get their dictionaries. The students were excited to get the
books, which they will keep at school until the end of the year when they
can take them home.
`It's awesome because we can learn new
things,` said student Katie Tremelling of her new dictionary.
Other comments ranged from `We'll learn new
words` and `We're going to use our dictionaries every day in class` to
`These dictionaries are going to be great for our class because we can
learn lots of new things.` Watch out, parents! These students mean to
learn something.
With the help of Wal-Mart, who helped fund
the project, the Rotary Club has been able to accomplish its goal of
giving to the students of this area. And it all started a couple years
ago. Graff, a member of the Rotary Club, had been a third grade teacher
for seven years in Granite School District. She heard about the dictionary
project when she visited a Web site and was immediately interested.
At www.dictionaryproject.org, she found out
that clubs and organizations are helping give dictionaries to students all
over the country. She went to the Rotary Club and told them about it.
`Three years ago I suggested doing a
project like that,` Graff said. `(I said) that if they wanted to, I would
head it up.`
Unable to get the project started that
year, the club asked Graff to do it last year and she did, with
spectacular results.
``When I go back to these teachers, they
always ask am I going to do it again,` said Graff, who loves to go to the
schools and present the children with the gift of learning.
According to the Web site, `the goal of
this program is to assist all students in completing the school year as
good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing students
with their own personal dictionaries. The dictionaries are a gift to each
student to use at school and at home for years to come.`
This statement goes right along with the
Rotary Club's theme of doing good for the community.
`It's what we do,` Graff said. `Things like
that.`
Source:
Cedar City Review
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