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Young World
Techie Taffy
PAROMITA PAIN
Sunny August is here. It is warm and being sweaty isn’t much fun. Playing outside isn’t that great because after a while the heat can sap the fun out of any game. But August isn’t just about complaining, heat and sweat. It’s actually a great time to stay indoors and discover how the Internet can be a friend to beat boredom with Techie.
Discover the joy of word games at the http://www.eastoftheweb.com/games/ page. Not just games where you learn to be clever with words with a dictionary to help you along, the site ha
s many types of games that really test your smarts. Check out the code cracking game if you want to see how challenging language can get!
Find and ‘pop’ as many words as you can in the letter grid before your time runs out on the http://www.eastoftheweb.com/cgi-bin/top_scores.pl?game=multipopwor
d site which has many games graded on their levels of difficulty. This page is a really exciting one with different types of games, all available for free with clear instructions. Read the instructions once more if you feel you can’t understand them in the beginning.
Take a break on the http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/childrenindex.html
page which has many popular stories that you might have read before but is always fun to reread. Don’t miss reading “The Hare Who Would Not Be King” by Tish Farrell.
But in case that’s not enough then log onto the http://www.magickeys.com/books/
site for more. This is an excellent online resource of free tales that can be downloaded and printed out to be read later.
And just in case grownups get upset to watch you have so much fun, throw in a bit of history to make them happy. Open the page at http://www.infoplease.com/spot/history-of-
august.html to see some great photos and of course learn about the important events that happened during this month.
Learn a bit of how August came to be at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August section.
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