The new favorite thing for my students to do to kill extra minutes at the end of class is to find big words using the letters from bigger words. I never anticipated them loving it so much. I actually posted a big piece of paper with supercalifragilisticexpialidocious written on it. They filled that paper with words within two days. (I never realized before that word has no 'm' or 'n' in it.) They're now working on the word cinematography (not as long, but it's got a lot of letters). One of the aides commented that she had found at least 12 words just using the letters in the word March. I didn't think it was possible, but decided to see what I could come up with. I just found 14 words:

• mar
• arch
• char
• cram
• harm
• car
• cam
• ram
• rah
• mach
• arc
• ah
• arm
• am

Darn competitive side. . . . :-)