{"id":97959,"date":"2025-11-21T08:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/?p=97959"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:51:41","slug":"words-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/?p=97959","title":{"rendered":"Words Matter!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sierra Beal, third-grade teacher at St. George School, sent an email to Larry Bailey, Master of Ocean View Grange:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…My students have absolutely loved their dictionaries! We use them multiple times a week to help with their learning.\u00a0 The generosity of you and the Grange makes a tremendous impact on the classroom and I am so thankful to be carrying on the Words for Thirds tradition.<\/em>.. Thank you again!!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To which Larry replied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am so happy that you told me how the students are taking to the dictionaries. You have not only made my day but my year!!!\u00a0 Thanks so much. I am looking forward to the next class and thanks to you I am sure as heck gonna be there…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visit the Maine Grange Resource Page<\/a> to learn how your Grange can sponsor a project!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sierra Beal, third-grade teacher at St. George School, sent an email to Larry Bailey, Master of Ocean View Grange: …My students have absolutely loved their dictionaries! We use them multiple times a week to help with their learning.\u00a0 The generosity of you and the Grange makes a tremendous impact on the classroom and I am … Continue reading “Words Matter!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[500],"class_list":["post-97959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Walter Boomsma","author_link":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/?author=2122"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Sierra Beal, third-grade teacher at St. George School, sent an email to Larry Bailey, Master of Ocean View Grange: …My students have absolutely loved their dictionaries! We use them multiple times a week to help with their learning.\u00a0 The generosity of you and the Grange makes a tremendous impact on the classroom and I am…","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1arC1-ptZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97961,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97959\/revisions\/97961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97959"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=97959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}