Club Projects:
BASKET BINGO
Bound Brook/Middlesex Rotary Club just held its first Annual " BASKET BINGO" at the Middlesex Elks to help raise money for their community projects and other non-profit organizations.
This year Rotary will be donating its proceeds to the Somerset Medical Trima Machine.
Thank you to everyone who came out & supported us. It was a great night!
Here are some photos from the festivities:
The Dictionary Project
Sonia Amorin, President of the Bound Brook/Middlesex Rotary Club presented dictionaries
to third graders at Hazelwood School in Middlesex on Thursday, October 25.
The students in the attached photograph by George H. Daniel are
Kelly Zierdt, Vincent Chiera, Aspen Ritz, Hanna Giuliano, , and Eric Galida.
The Bound Brook/Middlesex Rotary Club, as a community service organization, has decided for the fourth consecutive year, with the approval of local school officials, to give away 375 student dictionaries to public and parochial third grade students in Bound Brook, Middlesex and South Bound Brook. The goal of this project is to assist all third grade students to complete the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing each student with a personal dictionary. The dictionaries are a gift to each student to use at school and at home for years to come.
The students, enthusiastic upon receipt of new dictionaries, begin examining them immediately. The dictionaries are for the students to keep for use as their own personal reference book through their elementary school years. The dictionaries contain tables of weights and measures, text from the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution, information about the 50 states, biographies of 43 US presidents, maps of 7 continents, and facts about the solar system.
Each child's name is printed inside the dictionary front cover, as well as the Rotary Four Way Test. Letters explaining the project to parents were inserted into the dictionaries.
Typical feedback from students to Rotary Club members includes written comments such as these:
“Thank you for the dictionary. When I need to spell a word I will always use that dictionary. I feel so excited to have this dictionary.” Alok
“Thank you for giving us such great dictionaries. I'm going to use it a lot because I might need to see how to spell a word. It made me so happy that you sent these dictionaries to us because they have so much cool information.” Nicholas
“Thank you for the dictionary. My mom and dad like your dictionary. I like the book. Thank you for giving me a dictionary for me.” Dylah
“Thank you so much for the dictionary. I use my dictionary in school and for homework too. I have never had my own dictionary. I keep it in a safe spot.” Cayleen
Rotarian Richard Shive presented student dictionaries to 112 third grade students in Lafayette School, Bound Brook.
These students are in Mrs. Smith's class.
Rotarians George H. Daniel and Richard Roy presented student dictionaries to
third grade students in Parker School, Middlesex, with Ms. Maureen Hughes, School Principal.
The Dictionary Project
Bound Brook-Middlesex Rotary - Donates Dictionaries to Local Third Graders
The Bound Brook/Middlesex Rotary Club, as a community service organization, has decided, with the approval of local school officials, to give away more than 375 student dictionaries this year to public and parochial third grade students in Bound Brook, Middlesex and South Bound Brook. The Rotary Club is participating in the Dictionary Project, a nonprofit organization begun in 1995 in South Carolina to provide dictionaries to as many third-graders as possible. The goal of this program is to assist all third grade students to complete the school year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers by providing each student with their own personal dictionaries. The dictionaries are a gift to each student to use at school and at home for years to come.
Each child's name was printed inside the dictionary front cover, as well as the Rotary Four Way Test. Letters explaining the project to parents were also inserted into the dictionaries.
Some of the students at Hazelwood School in Middlesex after receiving their dictionaries.
