The San Mateo Elks Lodge
has given third graders in the
San Mateo-Foster City School District free dictionaries throughout the month
of November.
San Mateo Schools receiving donations include Baywood
Elementary, Beresford Elementary, College Park Elementary, Fiesta Gardens
Elementary, George Hall Elementary, Highlands Elementary, Horral Elementary,
Laurel Elementary, Meadow Heights Elementary, North Shoreview Elementary,
Parkside Elementary, San Mateo Park Elementary and Sunnybrae Elementary.
The lodge is doing this as part of The Dictionary Project, founded in 1995
by Mary French of Charleston, South Carolina. The sole mission of the
project is to distribute as many dictionaries as possible to third-graders
to improve their knowledge of words. Over 4, 654,183 children have received
a dictionary thanks to the generosity of sponsors who have participated in
the Dictionary project.
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