RBRC District Grant Final Report - Dictionary Project

RBRC successfully distributed 272 dictionaries to Washington, Birney and Madison school second graders last week!  This effort by 13 of our members completed the District Grant Award project we applied for last summer. Molina Foundation provided the books and delivered them to each school.  Karina Garcia led the project and coordinated the efforts of the club, RBUSD, and the Molina Foundation.  Thank You, Karina!

The children were given bookmarks, Rotary stickers and a tutorial to teach the use of a dictionary.  Alexis Sheehy taught use of guide words, locating a word, reading the description, using the word in a sentence, interpreting a diagram, and finally instructed the students to leave the dictionary open in a  prominent place in their home so all family members could use it.

In this way, we feel we reached approximately 1000 Redondo Beach residents and certainly helped further our clubs Literacy goals.

Many thanks to all!

Happy New Year,