Thursday Resource: FreeRice.com

Online game to end hunger
Free Rice is a review game online. It presents a word and then gives four possible definitions. In the past, I’ve used the English version as a bellringer activity, letting the kids play as they come in and letting classes compete against each other. It helps with derivatives.
For each correct answer, ten grains of rice are donated “through the World Food Programme.”
I just found out from @quinnkl that Latin vocabulary has been refined and expanded. Watch out, though, since the principal parts of verbs are in a nonstandard order.

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Links For the Week of 24 February

Contests The contest to name Pluto’s moons runs until noon EST on Monday: http://www.plutorocks.com Bulletins and Newsletters The Canadian Classical Bulletin is out for February:

Operation LAPIS

Today’s post is a guest post by Kevin Ballestrini. “What exactly is Operation LAPIS? Is it a game? Is it a simulation? How do you