Well there you are, watching the football game or just kicking back, pants unbuttoned because you just ate too much. You know, gluttony is a sin. Especially when there are people starving at this very moment. So Granny's going to act as the "Ever-so-High Priestess of the Ganja Goddess", and assign you your penance! 
Your penance is, since you have had more than your share of munchies today, you must provide for the hungry! I want you to go to the site below and play the game. You can do the vocabulary words, or even just the multiplication tables (hit "Change Subjects"). But play until you have equaled, in grains of rice, the number of calories you consumed today.
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
"According to some research, the average Thanksgiving meal is a whopping 3,000 calories. Nibble your way through some leftovers, and you could be consuming more than 4,000 calories in one day!" That is from-
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/81619/avoid_thanksgiving_weight_gain.html
(Add a couple of slices of Mom's Pecan Pie with whipped cream and you better add another 1,000 calories!)
The game is EASY- they give you a word (or multiplication problem) and 4 possible answers. You pick one and you earn 20 grains of rice for the UN World Food program. You are feeding the starving! 4,000 grains sounds hard, but you get 20 grains of rice for every right answer (no penalty for wrong answers). So even if you think that you ate 4,000 calories today, that's only 200 words or problems. (My 3rd graders do 100 multiplication problem worksheets every day! You're a big kid and can do more than a 3rd grader!)
I've done 10,000 grains a day, every day (and I'm on dial up!) since right before Xmas. I get kids at school to practice multiplication with it (and BOY do they need that practice!). It should take the place of that dumb solitaire game ( or what-ever you do to fill those "wasted minutes") on YOUR computer. You can play it for 10 seconds, or 10 hours, but play it every day. Make a big difference in some someone's life!
Granny
Your penance is, since you have had more than your share of munchies today, you must provide for the hungry! I want you to go to the site below and play the game. You can do the vocabulary words, or even just the multiplication tables (hit "Change Subjects"). But play until you have equaled, in grains of rice, the number of calories you consumed today.
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
"According to some research, the average Thanksgiving meal is a whopping 3,000 calories. Nibble your way through some leftovers, and you could be consuming more than 4,000 calories in one day!" That is from-
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/81619/avoid_thanksgiving_weight_gain.html
(Add a couple of slices of Mom's Pecan Pie with whipped cream and you better add another 1,000 calories!)
The game is EASY- they give you a word (or multiplication problem) and 4 possible answers. You pick one and you earn 20 grains of rice for the UN World Food program. You are feeding the starving! 4,000 grains sounds hard, but you get 20 grains of rice for every right answer (no penalty for wrong answers). So even if you think that you ate 4,000 calories today, that's only 200 words or problems. (My 3rd graders do 100 multiplication problem worksheets every day! You're a big kid and can do more than a 3rd grader!)
I've done 10,000 grains a day, every day (and I'm on dial up!) since right before Xmas. I get kids at school to practice multiplication with it (and BOY do they need that practice!). It should take the place of that dumb solitaire game ( or what-ever you do to fill those "wasted minutes") on YOUR computer. You can play it for 10 seconds, or 10 hours, but play it every day. Make a big difference in some someone's life!
Granny
I will also share it with some friends.
