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October 31- November 4 was Dictionary week for all Barrow County School's third
graders. According to The Dictionary Project, the goal of the program is to help all students become good writers, active readers, creative thinkers, and resourceful
learners by providing them with their own personal dictionary.
The Dictionary Project was started in Barrow County in 2002 by the Omicron Chapter of Delta Kappa
Gamma, an International Society for Key Women Educators. Barrow County Schools sends a big "thank you" to Shelia Hawthorne, our "dictionary
lady". Shelia works tirelessly each year to coordinate the efforts of all of our sponsors.
Third graders are targeted for the project because dictionary skills are
usually introduced at this level, and this is also considered by many educators to be the dividing line between learning to read and reading to learn. This year 1032
regular encyclopedic dictionaries and 86 English/Hispanic dictionaries were dispensed to the eight elementary schools. There were 14 civic and school groups that
sponsored the project this year. We want to thank our sponsors for their generous donations to our third grade students. This project truly touches so many
students in Barrow County and provides them with a resource they can use throughout their lives.
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