Powhatan County Public Schools -

The Powhatan Ruritans recently donated 100 dictionaries to Pocahontas Elementary School’s third grade students. Jane Ruehrwein, president of the Ruritans, (shown speaking) presented the dictionaries as a gift before winter break and then the third graders shared the gift of song with their holiday performance. The students will use them at school for instruction but then they get to take them home to keep so they each have their own individual dictionary. Many people do not realize that using a dictionary is still a Virginia SOL for language arts (3.4.g reads: Use word-reference resources including the glossary, dictionary, and thesaurus.) After the presentation, the third graders and their teachers snapped a photo with Jane as well as the reading coach who coordinated the delivery.