Spelling Bee

Last week #1 and #2 participated in the school spelling bee. #1 got first for the grade levels through 5th at the school. Today he got to go and participate in the County spelling bee. I was surprised to find out that they don't make the kids stand up and spell each word out loud like they did when I was a kid. Instead they had a list of words that they read off and the kids wrote down the spellings. Then they added up who got the most right and picked the winners that way. #1 got second place in his division for the county. I thought that was pretty cool.
He was happy to get second because 1st place would have to advance to state, and would have gone to the county fair as well, and he just didn't want to do either of those things.
Good job #1!

Comments

Anonymous said…
Wow! Congrats to #1. That is awesome news!
9:38 PM
SoDak Angel said…
Great job....my sister was in a spelling bee once....she missed the word picnic....she still can't live it down....wait...did I spell that right?
4:51 PM
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