vocabulary game to help our kids also helps stamp out hunger!

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Hi everyone. Chris' aid sent me info on the freerice.com website, which I think

is great, so I am forwarding it to lots of folks involved with kids or

disabilities. It is a website that has a vocabulary game, and every time you

click a correct answer, they donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations

World Food Program. This is a legitimate program- those of you that know me,

know that before I forward anything on (which I rarely do), I check it out at

snopes.com. : ) The program is appropriate for people just learning English

all the way up to English professors. As you play, it measures how you do to

determine harder or easier levels. It is funded from ads on its pages. Besides

vocabulary-building, it could easily be used for school projects, such as a

joint langauge arts and math project determining how many grains of rice donated

by a class/person and the value of that rice, etc.

I know most kids are going to spend at least a little of their summer vacation

playing games on the computer, so why not point them to a game that helps them

and others at the same time?

Amy P.