Spelling Bee

We watched the spelling bee last night with the kids. We enjoyed it. The best part for me was listening to Josie come up with all kinds of hypotheses on how these kids managed to spell these words.

"I figured it out! They can see the bottom of the screen!"

When I explained that the word printed on the bottom of the screen was broadcast only to the TV audience, she thought about it a bit.

"Well, they have special powers!"

I asked her if she really believed that it was more likely that these kids had psychic abilities, than that they were simply brilliant spellers.

She preferred the "psychic powers" scenario.