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Posted February 27, 2011 My entirely new vocabulary -- thanks to 3rd graders
“Awesome”, “Marvelous”,”Spectacular”, “Wonderful”, “Super Duper”,
“Cool”, are favorite expressions third graders at Canyon Creek
elementary used in describing the brand new, American Heritage
dictionaries each one received last month – to keep, no less.
Writes Whitley, “Thank you for the HUGE dictionary! You are kind
to spend a lot of money to give a dictionary. I plan to take good care
of it and use it a lot!”
The dictionary project embraced nine elementary schools in the
Northshore School District and is in its fourth year as an “education,
literacy and scholarship” focus of the Woodinville Rotary Club. Members
personally went to the schools to distribute more than 700 dictionaries.
They met well-behaved students, wide-eyed and thrilled at the thought of
receiving the illustrated dictionary.
Although one recipient noted that the books were “so heavy”,
that’s what happens when one broadens one’s vocabulary while enjoying
“lots of pictures.”
I inadvertently left out “stupendous”. Nic wrote, “Thank you for
the stupendous and cool dictionary. Your club is awesome. I plan to
learn how to pronounce words that I don’t know with my dictionary.”
Christopher said, “Your club is incredible.”
Annabelle plans “to teach my baby sister new words!” Natalie
added “Your club rocks at thier (sic) job!” Oh, well.
Teacher Jennifer McKnight of Bear Creek elementary, wrote a cover
letter to accompany another packet of thank you letters. “These
dictionaries are a wonderful gift that I look forward to each year!”
The students did not spare the use of exclamation marks. Said
Blake at Bear Creek, “You guys make looking up words fun!” Kelly said
her dictionary “will be useful for homework, books and definitions of
words!” Henry was fascinated by the word “glucose, noun”.
One student was apologetic. “P.S. I’m sorry this letter is short,
but I couldn’t think of what else to say.” I’ll conjecture that writer
was overwhelmed by the generosity of others?
One letter was merely signed “Your Name” but conveyed that the
author was “so happy. And, it has good stuf (sic)”.
Payton reported: “Sometimes my brother and I would do Dictionary
races to find random words. I am happy to now have my own dictionary to
use.”
Awesome!!!
The next Northshore Citizen column will feature Rotary
Ambassadorial Scholar Sasha Anderson
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