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Rotary District 5030 Third Grade Dictionary Project
The District 5030 Third Grade Dictionary Project is a literacy project aiming to provide dictionaries to all third grade students living within the area of our 55 clubs — from Tukwila to Seattle, Bellevue to Kent, Kirkland to Federal Way, Lynnwood to Rainier.
In third grade, students are beginning to learn word and dictionary skills. By giving each student a dictionary to own and take home, these children will have the resource in their home to develop the very important word skills required of all students in the State of Washington. Dictionaries are very useful to all students and more specifically to English Language Learners and students living below the poverty level. In addition, having dictionaries on-hand mean that parents and guardians will be in a better position to assist with their child's homework. In doing so, they will also become more competent learners and teachers of their child.
For more information on the project, or to get your club involved, please contact Judy Ginn, email: ; phone: (206) 232-7257.
10,100 DICTIONARIES ORDERED By 40 Rotary Clubs and/or individual Rotarians!
May 30, 2008 UPDATE:
CONGRATULATIONS, we have now ordered and will have delivered 10,000
dictionaries since August 2007, once we complete the Kennewick project.
What this means is that we have reached our 2007-2008 Rotary Year GOAL.
Clubs and individuals have donated in excess of $ 75,000.00
toward this project. We therefore, have a great deal to celebrate AND
be proud of. We have given all of these students the gift of knowledge.
ROTARY CLUBS
NUMBER OF DICTIONARIES
Ballard Bellevue Breakfast Bellevue Noon Bellevue Overlake Covington, Kent Sunrise & Kent Des Moines Emerald City Federal Way & Federal Way Sunrise Lynnwood Magnolia New Castle North Seattle Northshore Queen Anne Rainier & Mercer Island Renton Sea-Tac Seattle International Seattle NE Shoreline SODO Southcenter Tukwila University District Woodinville
Financial donations were made at the 2007 District Conference in
Kennewick by the Rotary Clubs of: Auburn, Bellevue, Bellevue Sunrise,
Burien White Center, Covington, Des Moines, Duvall, Edmonds Noon,
Emerald City, Federal Way Noon, Federal Way Sunrise, Issaquah, Kent,
Lake Forest Park, Magnolia, Maple Valley, Newcastle, North Seattle,
Redmond, Renton, Renton Capers, SeaTac, Seattle International, Seattle
Northeast, Shoreline, Snoqualmie Valley, SODO, Tukwila, University,
Vashon Island, West Seattle
OTHER DONATIONS
Additional donations were made by: Anonymous Donor, Bill and Sandy
Taylor, Gene Tonnamaker, Lisa Hawkins, RC of Queen Anne, RCs of Rotary
District 5030, Rotary District 5030.
Thank you to everyone!
OUR MOTTO IS
"SERVICE ABOVE SELF"
District 5030 supports several official District-wide projects and encourages all of its clubs to participate:
The District 5030 Third Grade Dictionary Project is a literacy project aiming to provide dictionaries to all third grade students living within the area of our 55 clubs — from Tukwila to Seattle, Bellevue to Kent, Kirkland to Federal Way, Lynnwood to Rainier.