Third-graders at Santa Maria and Orcutt schools are going to have even better vocabularies now, thanks to a donation from the Rotary Club of Santa Maria. Some of the schools that received dictionaries include Alice Shaw, Joe Nightingale, and Pacific Christian.
The Dictionary Project is designed to help third grade teachers in their goal to ensure students leave at the end of the school year as good writers, active readers, and creative thinkers. Rotary aims to provide third-grade students throughout the community with their own personal dictionary to use as a powerful reference tool. The project further inspires students to increase their vocabulary, self-reliance, and resourcefulness.
This article appears in Oct 20-27, 2011.