freerice.com

[Storm Crow]

I work in a school and recently my teacher, looking for ways to encourage better vocabulary, stumbled on freerice.com.

When you are bored, depressed, or just have a few minutes to spare, play the game! It is a very simple vocabulary game. Every time you guess right, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN. There is no penalty for a wrong guess. One bowl (100 grains) at a time, it adds up. CNN had an article on this site.

My Special Ed class donated 32,100 grains of rice yesterday. My teacher, the other aide, most of our students and me, were all working together- of course, the kids had to finish their work to be able to play and we all love the game! We are challenging the Emotionally Disturbed class at our school to better our score! (and I'm challenging YOU!) Everybody is winning with this one! Friendly competition between classes, staff and students bonding over a mutual interest, vocabularies are increased, egos are boosted (doing something truly important and meaningful is so rare for my kids ) and someone who needs it, is fed.

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What! You're still sitting there? Go over to freerice.com and feed someone!

Storm Crow Reviewed by Storm Crow on 12-20-2007. freerice.com I work in a school and recently my teacher, looking for ways to encourage better vocabulary, stumbled on freerice.com. When you are bored, depressed, or just have a few minutes to spare, play the game! It is a very simple vocabulary game. Every time you guess right, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN. There is no penalty for a wrong guess. One bowl (100 grains) at a time, it adds up. CNN had an article on this site. My Special Ed class donated 32,100 grains of rice yesterday. My Rating: 5

[twoguysupnorth]

that is cool, i have seen this on the news here and also some other gardening sites. i forget the #'s but there has been tons of rice shipped!

[Storm Crow]

An overweight kid, who is pretty much a slacker in a "regular" class, came up to me and said "Ya know that rice game? I got 3,000 grains of rice last night! Took me hours!" I gave him a "high five" and a big "WAY TO GO"! He was so proud of himself- and rightly so! - Granny:hippy:

[Storm Crow]

OK, you've had your feast! How about feeding someone else? - Granny:hippy:

[happiestmferoutthere]

I've already been playing this morning, Granny. Already up to 1500 grains today.:thumbsup:

[Skrappie]

anything for you granny!

[yhelothar]

Damn good idea. I'm definitely going to start playing. This is a pretty ingenious idea.

[4twentE]

that's kinda fun. enriches vocabulary and feeds the hungry. good post. i'll thumbsup it. i got in the neighborhood of 1300 grains today w/ a finishing level at 30 and best level of 34.

[CultureCherryPopper]

Wow the words get tooough...I got to 1260 without a dictionary, got to 1640 with one online. Fianlly got to metic without finding anything. Bummer. Good stuff. I like the idea that I give nothing to society normally, but I can sit in my underwear and feed starving people in the world by playing a vocab game. +Rep to you for making me feel a little bit better about myself, at least for the time being.

[stumpyjim]

This is an awesome thing. My wife is already telling her friends and family about it.