Well, I haven't quit yet, but I had a slight detour yesterday when the health office called me to tell me that my son was feeling quite ill. My Monday volunteer plans went out the window and one of my kids recommended www.freerice.com. My son had heard about the website from his History teacher when he was one hour short of completing his community service requirement last year.
Freerice.com is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. It's two goals: to provide free education and help end world hunger by providing free rice to hungry people. The sponsors who advertise on their website makes it possible for kids to learn while giving too. The way it works.... you are asked a multiple choice question. For every answer you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice through the World Food Program.
Off to freerice.com and where do I end up, the English section. I'm only on level 28 and I feel like I'm studying for the SAT again. I'm thinking to myself, I'm going to be on this website forever trying to donate 5,000 grains of rice. Luckily, I have really bright kids who don't play computer, Wii, DSI during school days, who see me "playing" on the computer. (They said I was playing, but I was helping to feed hungry kids.) My son asks me why I'm not on the Math section. I didn't know there was a Math section, how cool is that....I LOVE MATH. He showed me how to get to the Math section, kind of like he showed me how to double space on MS Word, how to program my cell phone and how to connect the Wii (too much information, huh) and I was surprised to find a Grammar section, Art, Geography, Languages and Basic Math...there is even a section for Multiplication (12 x 11 comes up a lot).
30 minutes later, I had earned 5,500 grains of rice for hungry people. I felt good and I even had fun working out the basic Math problems. When this 40 day project is over, I'm going to go back to freerice.com, practice my rusty French and tackle the vocab words on level 30. Meanwhile, I think I'll have my boys start practicing for their SATs on freerice.com. If anything, they'll have fun trying to figure out the words while giving to hungry people.
Make it a great day! Check out freerice.com today.
Christina
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Wow, thanks for the website info. I'll have to check it out tomorrow. I didn't think anyone was reading my blog. Thanks for posting.
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