Thursday, November 29, 2007
FREE RICE = VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
There are so many things that we take for granted in this life...like the ability to enjoy food when we choose. What does rice have to do with vocabulary. In looking for interesting activities to support our book of the month for December and our focus on vocabulary, I visited fischbowl and found a cool activity that supports vocabulary and our desire to help those in need. Checkout freerice. For every word you get correct 20 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program. It worth a try. What a way to learn and enrich at the same. I stopped at 1240 grains of rice. How many did you donate? What about your students?
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Great website for vocabulary. I actually had a student in my office who said they were on the site in their class. Felt like I was on Jeopardy with the difficulty of the questions.
Did you know..
29,000 grains of rice is equivalent to 1 Pound
One Bag of UN Rice is 50Kg or 110 Pounds
So...
It takes 3,190,000 grains of rice to fill a 110 Pound bag of UN Rice.
For every 159,500 words you get right you are donating a 110 Pound bag of rice to fight hunger!
I know that when I first tried freerice.com, I loved it. I wasn't sure what my students would say. The response blew me away! I have students who go home and spend time on it WITH THEIR FAMILIES! On the computers in my room we started doing it as a whole class and then it turned into a competition between us. They won and they were so proud! From Monday when we introduced it until Thursday, they had donated 19,000 grains of rice. They came back on Friday and when we added what they had done in one night, they doubled it! They are now at close to 40,000. They work hard at their classwork so they can spend some time on it and they work well TOGETHER to try to get the answers right.
I have even shared it with my own family and friends.
WOW....Think about the excitement this activity generated within the faculty. I was thrilled to see that the students liked it as much, if not more. There was not A SINGLE CHILD, that I asked about freerice that could not tell me about it. The student who was present in our SAC meeting told everyone else about it(she was Ms. Wilson's HR student) Way to go to all of you for really embracing this. REMEMBER...our excitement excites the students!!!!!!!
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