Woodland Hills Dictionary Project Gladys Maharam
[email protected] Slide 2 Oakland Club Dictionary
Project Slide 3 Handouts personalized for each school Slide 4 Name
Plate Slide 5 Slide 6 Partners: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and
Pittsburgh Public Schools Slide 7 Slide 8 Slide 9 Slide 10 Woodland
Hills Dictionary Project Braddock Churchill Wilkins Forest Hills
Swissvale Turtle Creek Slide 11 Reviewed at Forest Hills Board
Meeting Slide 12 District Simplified Grant!!! We were awarded $800!
Slide 13 Woodland Hills Dictionary Project Agenda for January 26,
2010 Introductions Review of scope of project Dictionary selection
Schools and census Point person for each school Contact Arrive at
least 20 minutes early Have dictionaries and pens ready to hand out
Rotary welcome followed by dictionary skills lesson by public
librarian or library school student Photographs Preliminary work
Where dictionaries should be shipped Purchase of pens Amount of
personalization Text of labels Text of enclosed sheet Extra boxes
Slide 14 Next meeting Unpack boxes Apply labels Stuff sheets Pack
and label boxes Take pens Store boxes Photographer for meeting
Budget Grant $800 Portion from each Club for WHSD Each Club paying
expenses for dictionaries/pens/labels, etc. for charter, parochial
and private schools in their catchment area District Foundation.
Application sent. Waiting for confirmation. Checks to Forest Hills
Club so one check can go to District Foundation by February Dates
By Thursday, January 28Contact info distributed. Thursday, January
28 by noonFinal confirmation of number of dictionaries for each
private, parochial and charter school. Friday, January 29Place
order with Scholastic. By February 22Dictionaries arrive Slide 15
Rotary District 7300 Foundation 1.Application 2.Resolution Slide 16
Name of School MunicipalityStudentsClub Responsibility Ben Fairless
ElementaryWHSD50Braddock Good Shepherd SchoolBraddock15Braddock
Shaffer ElementaryWHSD45Churchill-Wilkins Wilkins
ElementaryWHSD58Churchill-Wilkins Edgewood ElementaryWHSD65Forest
Hills Trinity Christian SchoolForest Hills22Forest Hills St.
Maurice SchoolForest Hills17Forest Hills Christ Lutheran
SchoolForest Hills9 Dickson ElementaryWHSD42Swissvale Word of God
SchoolSwissvale16Swissvale Universal Academy of
PittsburghSwissvale15Swissvale Woodland Hills AcademyWHSD45Turtle
Creek Propel EastTurtle Creek40Turtle Creek Slide 17 Woodland Hills
Dictionary Project Project to be completed by the end of March.
Contact the Woodland Hills contact for your school(s) Arrange date
and time. Find out if you will be visiting separate classes or if
the children will be in one group. Contact Gladys Maharam
([email protected]) with the above info once its
determined. Copy Andrea McNeill ([email protected]) and Tom
Nunnally
([email protected])[email protected]@[email protected]
Andrea will let you know if she is available. If she isnt, review
the dictionary skills handout. Tom will let you know if any media
person will be present for interviews or photographs. Contact other
schools Arrange date and time. If applicable, find out if you will
be visiting separate classes or if the children will be in one
group. Contact Gladys Maharam ([email protected]) with
the above info once its determined. Copy Andrea McNeill
([email protected]) and Tom Nunnally
([email protected])[email protected]@[email protected]
Andrea will let you know if she is available. If she isnt, review
the dictionary skills handout. Tom will let you know if any media
person will be present for interviews or photographs. Slide 18
Final preparation Have dictionaries and pens organized for each
class. Remember to wear your Rotary pens and take a camera
(preferably digital) School representative will introduce Rotary
project. Greet children, introduce yourself, and tell them a little
bit about Rotary. (Do remember that they are 3 rd graders.)
Distribute dictionaries and pens. Ask them to open cover and write
their first and last name on the line on the book plate. Instruct
them to put pens down and tell them that they will be allowed to
keep them. Explain that the dictionaries are theirs for home use,
that they should show them to their parents, and give the handout
to their parents. Either introduce Andrea ONeill or one of the
Rotarians should be prepared to handle the dictionary skills
lesson. After lesson, encourage students to look through
dictionary. Rotarians should visit with the children individually
for a few minutes. Thank teacher and school official. Take extra
dictionaries and pens. If teacher tells you that a child is absent,
then leave a dictionary and pen behind. If a teacher requests a
dictionary for use in classroom, decline tactfully saying that the
project is just for the students. After the Distribution by April
5, 2010, each Club should: Send pictures to Gladys Maharam, making
sure that the school is identified. Send a brief report of your
experience to her as well indicating if anything went wrong, any
recommendations for next year, and the high points. Extra
dictionaries and pens belong to your Club. You may either save them
for next year or use them for Club purposes. Please dont sell them
unless your Club is prepared to collect local and state sales tax.
Talk to your board about making this an annual event. Slide 19
Slide 20 Rotarians Teaching Brief Dictionary Skills Ask students
why dictionaries are important. Why should they have one at home?
Look up service. Look up polio. Personal use Slide 21 Slide 22
Slide 23 Placed by title page. Children instructed to show sheet
and dictionary to adults at home. Slide 24 ISBN:WPE-970258-5 ISBN
13:9780439702584 Short ID:970258 Alternate ID:WPE9702585
Imprint:Scholastic Reference Pub. Year:2007 Format:Trade Trim
Size:8 x 10 Pages:672 Illustrations:full-color photographs
Scholastic Childrens Dictionary List Price: $18.99 Slide 25 The
bestselling Scholastic Children's Dictionary has been revised and
updated. Some outstanding new features include: *16 pages of bonus
material--a grammar and punctuation guide, photos of all the U.S.
presidents, a map of the continents, a map of Canada, and more!
*Dozens of new and updated entries--blog, artichoke, IM, desktop,
and Euro to name a few. Each new entry was written by a well- known
lexicographer and reviewed by an advisory board of educators and
librarians. Slide 26 Rotarians, Thank you so much for the
dictionaries! The students are THRILLED with them! (The teachers
are excited about the students having dictionaries, as well.) This
is a wonderful thing you are doing for the third graders in the
Woodland Hills District. With much gratitude, Terry Ward, Word of
God Catholic School Rotarians, Thank you so much for the
dictionaries! The students are THRILLED with them! (The teachers
are excited about the students having dictionaries, as well.) This
is a wonderful thing you are doing for the third graders in the
Woodland Hills District. With much gratitude, Terry Ward, Word of
God Catholic School Sent to the Swissvale Club Slide 27 Dear Mr.
Nunnally, Thank you for the gift from The Rotary Club of
Dictionaries for our third graders. We appreciate the help in the
education of our students. Thank you again for your thoughtfulness.
Dale McLane Headmaster Trinity Christian School Sent to the Forest
Hills Club Slide 28 Slide 29 Slide 30 Slide 31 Slide 32 You mean we
can take these home? Slide 33 Slide 34 Slide 35 Thanks and More
Thanks Slide 36 And thank you.
