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The AARP Bulletin I receive has a section called 'Brain Aerobics'. Imagine my surprise when I explored some of the websites with games and discovered that one of them leads to the AARP website, which provides numerous games and activities! I'm wondering if anyone is tallying how many hits it gets! With the list provided, I followed my inclination and played several word games. A few (wordsearch on bing.com, for example) required several tries before I was successful in navigating the games themselves. Several of the games (Spider Solitaire) are old favorites I thought had to be on the computer. Uh-oh. There was a game for 5th-6th graders in the General Studies section based on the ancient Egyptian game called Sanet. Oddly enough, some of my students created an old-fashioned version for a presentation of the game this past fall. I often direct my students to zigzagworld, aklah, bible-quiz, JNF YourPage, etc. They are fun and educational and I will allow my students to print out their scores of 80% or higher in lieu of a test. I went to some of the Hebrew sites to explore and see if I could use them in my classroom. The 'Sod shel Maya' did not load for some reason. I spent a lot of time on the greenwin.kkl.org.il site, liked it and will have to spend more time navigating. There is a blank map of Israel onto which one is supposed to drag the names of these geographic locations. After a second unsuccessful 'drag and drop', the site provides the correct answer. I would like to use this site, I think, with the 5th grade as part of our Yom HaAtzmaut celebration in school. I need to make sure the Hebrew is manageable. I would like to now go back and play Spider Solitaire instead of going outside. Have a lovely day!