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Look It Up! Rotarians Deliver Dictionaries to Third Graders [Photos]

The annual project benefits students at the Lemon Grove Academy for the Sciences and Humanities elementary school.

Every year, Rotary of Lemon Grove delivers a dictionary to each third grade student at the Lemon Grove Academy for the Sciences and Humanities elementary school (formerly Golden Avenue School).

Rotarians place labels in each dictionary with a copy of The Four-Way Test:

Of the things we think, say or do,

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Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

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Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

As you can see by the photos, students love to receive the hands-on dictionaries, and begin to look up words almost immediately.

—Submitted by Jackie Boehmke, secretary of the Rotary Club of Lemon Grove.


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