Our school has a Spelling Bee that is broken up into two parts. The first part takes place in each classroom (we have three classrooms per grade level and our school has grades K-5). The winners of each classroom Spelling Bee then go on to compete against each other (18 students total) for the schoolwide Spelling Bee. The winner of that can then go on to a regional Spelling Bee, with that winner eventually making their way to the National Scripps Spelling Bee.
A Spelling Bee information letter and practice list came home with both girls right when we went back to school after Christmas. The Spelling Bee was originally scheduled for Friday, January 21, but had to be postponed because school was closed that day due to high Covid numbers. The girls went back to school on January 31 and Molly's classroom had their Spelling Bee that day. Molly was excited to participate and did a good job practicing her word list at home. I was so excited when she got in the car after school that day and she told me she had won! I was so happy and proud of her!
Lucy's class did their Spelling Bee the next day and Lucy was less than thrilled to participate! She had told us she wasn't going to do it, but I guess her teacher made each student do the Spelling Bee! When Lucy got in the car after school that day I was beyond excited to hear her say that she won her Spelling Bee! How exciting that both girls won their classroom Spelling Bees!
They each came home with a letter explaining the next steps for the Spelling Bee, along with a list of 450 words to study! Lucy and I have been going over the words and they are quite a lot harder than the first round of words to study! The schoolwide Spelling Bee will take place on February 18. I am so proud of them! Of course I would love for one of them to win, but it doesn't matter if neither wins. All that matters is they tried it and gave it their best!
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