Okay, the holidays are over and now I'm going to play a little catch-up.
The first item of business is a mama's bragging rights. About mid-December, J's teacher sent home a note saying that he was one of the second grade spelling bee contestants from his class. In his school there are 6 second grade classes with about 22 kids per class, around 132 kids total. Each class chose its top 6 spellers to compete in the second grade spelling bee. The top four second graders overall moved on to the school-wide spelling bee. J did so well, and as usual, was very exact and professional in his spellings. He finished fifth. Therefore, he is an alternate if one of the top four can't do it. The picture above is him at the second grade bee. His teeth were so loose they were about to fall out.
Two days before Christmas break, Z got in the car and announced that out of her grade of approximately 130 kids, she made the top four and would be in the school-wide Spelling Bee. Both J and Z brought home a booklet full of words to study. The big spell-off is on January 16th. We have done a little studying, but with everyone being so sick, we haven't done as much as I would have like to have done over the break. (Z got the stomach virus on New Year's Eve. Six out of six. We like to do everything 100%! :-0 )
Anyway, I wanted to make sure that I posted about this great accomplishment. As you can tell, I'm really proud of them both! |
That's awesome!
When I was a kid I made it to the state spelling bee. I had done well in city and regional, but I don't know who the heck these kids at states were. They were some serious spellers -- asking about origin and so forth. Once I asked for a word's origin just because that's what everyone else was doing. It was Latin -- I didn't know how that was supposed to help me. In the end, I spelled one word correctly at states and that was it. :-)