A few weeks before our December break, a former student alerted me to Free Rice, one of the coolest websites I've ever seen! Free Rice provides the opportunity to increase your vocabulary skills and feed the hungry. Check out www.freerice.com to play. If you select FAQs, you can learn more about this neat program, but in a nutshell, when you get a vocabulary word correct, twenty grains of rice are donated to the United Nations to combat world hunger. NPR did a story on Free Rice, and references to it seem to be cropping up all over. Why don't you give it a try?
