Community Projects
2017 Inez Lewis Scholarship
The 2017 winners are Lexie Rendon from Ennis, Angel Watts from Ferris, Lyric Brooks from Milford and Taylor Cooper from Waxahachie. Lexie is continuing her education a Texas Tech University and pursuing a degree in Human Development and Family Studies. Angel's goal is to shadow someone in the field of Industrial Technology at Iowa State University and later on create her own business. Lyric will pursue a Master in Nursing degree at UTA in Arlington. Taylor Cooper's dream is to pursue a degree in Radiologist at Texas A&M and upon finishing medical school to become a cardiologist.
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Dictionary Project
The 2017 Dictionaries were delivered on August 29th. On August 30th eight ECRW Members and three seniors from the Avalon High School held a workday and placed bookplates in 2064 Student's Dictionaries. Members are in the process of going to the Ellis County Schools to present each third graders with their personal book.
The Dictionary Project is designed to aid third grade teachers in their goal to see all their students leave at the end of the year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers. Our purpose is to provide third grade students in the community with their own personal dictionary. The dictionaries are for the children to keep, so they can take them with them into the fourth grade and use throughout their school career.
A dictionary is perhaps the first and most powerful reference tool a child can own. Its usefulness goes beyond the spellings, pronunciations and definitions it lists. It is a companion for solving problems that arise as a child develops his or her reading, writing and creative thinking abilities. Students benefit from an increased self-reliance and resourcefulness inspired by the maxim "look it up".
Teachers benefit by knowing that their students have consistent access to a tool for homework and in class explorations. The Dictionary Project is an opportunity for children to expand their vocabulary and for many to actually own a dictionary.
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A dictionary is perhaps the first and most powerful reference tool a child can own. Its usefulness goes beyond the spellings, pronunciations and definitions it lists. It is a companion for solving problems that arise as a child develops his or her reading, writing and creative thinking abilities. Students benefit from an increased self-reliance and resourcefulness inspired by the maxim "look it up".
Teachers benefit by knowing that their students have consistent access to a tool for homework and in class explorations. The Dictionary Project is an opportunity for children to expand their vocabulary and for many to actually own a dictionary.
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The Constitution Day
2800 U. S. Constitution booklets were delivered on August 25th and the labels were placed on the back cover of each booklet on August 3oth on the workday for the dictionaries.
This will be the eleventh year the Ellis County Republican Women’s club will be providing pocket-sized copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence to approximately 3000 fifth-graders in Ellis County to help celebrate the TFRW Constitution Day Project on September 17.
“We had such a positive experience with the Constitution Day Project for past years that there was no question this year about continuing the program. The students were so excited to see volunteers from the community come to their schools and teach them about these important American documents. We also had tremendous feedback from our volunteers who found the event to be very rewarding.”
The highlight of the Constitution Day event again this year will be a short, non-partisan educational program for each 5th grade campus in Ellis County. Most schools prefer to have assemblies so all fifth-grade classes can participate together. Students will learn how these historic documents came to be and will receive their own copies to keep so they can follow along with their class studies. Elected officials, retired teachers and administrators, officers from police and sheriff’s departments, and other members of the community will be on hand to participate in the program again this year.
Donations to help with the cost of this program are still welcome. 100% of the donations will go toward the cost of purchasing materials for the students.
Please make checks payable to ECRW-PAC. Mail to:
Constitution Day
Tommie Worthy
202 S FM 55
Italy, TX, 76651
For more information, call 972-627-3447 or e-mail tommieworthy2@windstream.net
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“We had such a positive experience with the Constitution Day Project for past years that there was no question this year about continuing the program. The students were so excited to see volunteers from the community come to their schools and teach them about these important American documents. We also had tremendous feedback from our volunteers who found the event to be very rewarding.”
The highlight of the Constitution Day event again this year will be a short, non-partisan educational program for each 5th grade campus in Ellis County. Most schools prefer to have assemblies so all fifth-grade classes can participate together. Students will learn how these historic documents came to be and will receive their own copies to keep so they can follow along with their class studies. Elected officials, retired teachers and administrators, officers from police and sheriff’s departments, and other members of the community will be on hand to participate in the program again this year.
Donations to help with the cost of this program are still welcome. 100% of the donations will go toward the cost of purchasing materials for the students.
Please make checks payable to ECRW-PAC. Mail to:
Constitution Day
Tommie Worthy
202 S FM 55
Italy, TX, 76651
For more information, call 972-627-3447 or e-mail tommieworthy2@windstream.net
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