Deadly at Scrabble?

Try to rearrange the letters in the following words and see if you can do better.

============================================================================
From My InBox:

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

Yep! Someone who is deadly at Scrabble or with waaaaaaaaaaay
too much time on their hands! (Probably a son-in-law).

My daughter donated 4080 grains of rice!

I wrote about Free Rice earlier. It is a place where you can encourage your children to learn new words playing a vocabulary game and feed hungry people in the process.

Not realising that my 8 years old daughter is up to it, I challenged her to play the FreeRice game when she requested for extra time to play her computer games. I told that if she could hit 800 grains of words correct, that is, getting 40 words defined correctly, I would allow her to play for 1 hour more.

I showed her how she could check up on the words with the help of a list of online dictionaries I have posted on DataBase4Kids. I went off to cook and came back later to see that she had hit 4000 grains and was still keen to carry on. She had to stop for lunch when she hit 4080. Oops! That means 5 hours more of computer games for her! Sorry, Callie, some adjustment had to be made.

When her brother came home from school, he was challenged to beat his sister on that score. I think that it is a great idea to be able to encourage your children to learn new words and do a good deed along the way, don't you?

In appreciation of FreeRice, I decided to create a presentation of what it is about.

400 Grams Of Rice

view presentation (tags: meaningful inspiring free rice)

Thank you, John Breen, for creating FreeRice.

I have just donated 880 grains of rice.

I have just donated 880 grains of rice and I will be getting my children to donate at least 20 grains on a daily basis. You can too without taking out your purse or wallet. Just go to Free Rice and play a word definition game.

Please make sure that you get the answer right so that your donation of rice will be distributed by the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP).

Your English not up to par? Don't worry if the words get harder and harder to define because I have links to all the dictionaries you need.

Let us work on hitting the target phrase of "You have donated 100,000 grains of rice. May you have a lifetime of happiness..."

I cannot think of a better motivation to pick up language or polish it. Can you?