Dictionaries for 3rd Graders

The dictionaries are delivered to 892 third graders in 40 classes at 12 schools in the Roosevelt School District!   Pictured are of some of the thank you notes.  The students were awesome - learning quickly how to answer questions by going to the table of contents to find the topic, then digging into the topic and to get the facts.  Who's smarter than a 3rd Grader?  Once they got the hang of it Rotarians were challenged to come up with questions faster than the students could answer them.  Thanks to Tom who arranged the whole project and got the dictionaries and to all The Rotarians and friends who labeled the books, delivered the dictionaries and taught the students.  How many letter are in the longest word in the English language?  (1,909)  Who was the 14th president of the USA? (Franklin Pierce)  Where do aardvarks live?  (I don't know but these children now know how to look it up.)