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Terri Farley
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

School Yourself

Dear Readers,
If you're bored while others are watching the Super Bowl...
If your parents complain that you're WASTING time on line...
try this! It's so much fun.
Go to FreeRice.com and improve your vocabulary or grammar or Spanish or WHATEVER and for every answer you get right, ten grains of rice are donated to hungry people.
I will admit vocabulary is my favorite, and here's how it works: you answer questions & for every correct answer, you get a harder questions. For each miss, you get an easier question! Just try it!
It you're skeptical (like I was), read some of the quotes below:

“What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does ..."Washington Post

“People from all walks of life and from around the globe have written in to express their appreciation for the game . . . Secretaries admit to playing it during boring business meetings.”
- Christian Science Monitor

“What type of computer game could get kids excited about learning vocabulary words? One that also helps feed hungry people around the world!”
- Scholastic News Magazine


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Comments: My teacher showed me this web site and almost everyone plays in when we have free time!
  My brother did this and so goes my friend. It's really neat!
  I have never heard of something like that. Sounds cool! Dosn't Terri Farley know ALL the good websites?
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