Rotarians Steve Hitchcock, Cam Boyd and Dave Zabel are seen here with Soda Creek Elementary School third-graders showing their very own new dictionaries.

 

Dear Rotary Club: 

Thank you for the dictionaries.  And thank you for the sign language in the dictionaries too!  I like the longest word at the end.  Oh, my favorite is the sea life.  Thanks for telling us all the flags in the dictionary.  Some of us in our class are doing a report from the dictionary too!  I’m wondering if I want to do a report.  I might.  Anyway, thanks for the dictionaries.  I love it!    Sincerely, Veda Marshall, Mrs. Schumacher’s Third Grade Class, Hayden Valley Elementary.    P.S.  Rotary Club Rocks!

Dear Veda:

Thank you for sending us such a nice thank-you note about your brand new Rotary dictionary.  Mr. Cameron Boyd from our club has been bringing dictionaries to third grade kids in Hayden, Oak Creek and Steamboat Springs for several years now.  I’ll bet you’d be surprised to learn how many other Rotarians helped, like Jamie Morgan, Dave Zabel, Steve Hitchcock, Jane Denning, Holly Rogers, Kerry Shea, Jeff Steinke and Chan Coyle helped.  They loved going to third grade classes in Soroco, Strawberry Park, Soda Creek and Hayden to bring kids their own books.  We needed them all to help because we had almost 300 to deliver and they are pretty heavy!  I’m sending you a picture from third-graders at the Soda Creek Elementary School.  We brought them dictionaries too. 

Everybody loves looking at the longest word.  It has 1,909 letters!  We tried to say the word at our Rotary Club and we finally gave up.  Maybe all of you in Mrs. Schumacher’s class can do better.

We all loved your letter, especially with the drawings of the big heart around your name and the American flag.  You probably didn’t need to use your new dictionary to write your letter because there wasn’t a single misspelled word!

Be sure to have fun this year in school, study hard and keep checking out all of those wonderful words in your very own dictionary!

            Mike Forney

            Steamboat Springs Rotary Club