We're taking a break from our morning "Daily News" to try word building. And boy is it tricky!  Today we talked about the letters in Madisyn's name, then tried rearranging the letters to make other words.  After a slow start, the kids came up with 13 words (definitely a "kiss your brain" moment :).

During our reading time, we played a fun game called SCOOT.  The kids had to move around the tables and write down the missing beginning sound from all the words.

Our math lesson was on probability.  Each table had a bag of candy hearts and the kids took turns pulling one out and tallying the color.  Afterwards, we talked about which color they pulled out most often, and why that happened.  (The bags had many more of 1 color.)