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Elks present fourth grade with 80 dictionaries

 

October, 2010

 

Group photo of kids with dictionaries The Canajoharie-Fort Plain Elks Lodge presented 80 dictionaries on Friday, Oct. 1 to the fourth grade class at East Hill Elementary School as part of its sixth dictionary project. For the past six years, the Elks have given dictionaries to six school districts from around the area.

Fourth grade students Abigale Hislop and Casandra McGrath wrote a description of the event: “All of the fourth graders went down to the Great Room. We met the Elks and they gave us our own dictionaries! The Elks are people that help and give things to people. Each class went one at a time. We all got our dictionaries and sat down. They talked to us about the dictionaries and they told us to turn to the last page, so we did. There was the longest word in the English language. The word has 1,909 letters in it! It is a protein that has 267 amino acids.”

Photo of student with dictionary The Elks are one of many groups around the country that take part in the Dictionary Project. The project was founded in 1995 in South Carolina and has grown into a national organization. To date, more than 14 million children have received dictionaries.