A while back all the kids at the middle school were given a paper and pencil spelling test. The top thirty spellers in each grade level (5-8) were invited to participate in Middle School Grade Level Spelling Bee during school on Tuesday. Beenie was one of those top thirty. When he was invited to participate he got the study guide and everything, but I never saw him do anything other than glance at it once or twice. So the day of the bee arrived and Beenie went off to school to a heartfelt "good luck".
When he came home I asked him how his day was. He said, very casually, "We had the spelling bee today." I said, "How was it?", to which he replied "It was good. [beat] [beat] I won." Yep, he came in first place in the 5th Grade Spelling Bee!
That meant that last night the top eight spellers from each grade level were to compete against each other in the Middle School Spelling Bee. Beenie was very excited (and this time he was showing it)! I thought the bee would last a long time as there were 32 kids from grades 5-8, and they would have to go through them all for each round (like the spelling bee on TV). I was surprised that the first round eliminated 17 kids. By round three it was down to 5. Beenie was one of those five.
One by one kids got tripped up until it was down to two. Beenie was still one of those two. It went back and forth until Beenie got tripped up. That meant:
Beenie placed second place over all in the Middle School Spelling Bee!!! And, that's as a 5th grader!
The kid who won is in 8th grade. Beenie did an amazing job! In the later rounds, he nailed these words:
So they send one kid on to the regional spelling bee, and the winner of that goes on to compete in the National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC. Everyone was so amazed and proud of Beenie for getting so close as a fifth grader. He's got three more years to compete - if he wants to. (And his excitement and enthusiasm leads me to believe that he will.)
Congratulations, Beenie!!
When he came home I asked him how his day was. He said, very casually, "We had the spelling bee today." I said, "How was it?", to which he replied "It was good. [beat] [beat] I won." Yep, he came in first place in the 5th Grade Spelling Bee!
That meant that last night the top eight spellers from each grade level were to compete against each other in the Middle School Spelling Bee. Beenie was very excited (and this time he was showing it)! I thought the bee would last a long time as there were 32 kids from grades 5-8, and they would have to go through them all for each round (like the spelling bee on TV). I was surprised that the first round eliminated 17 kids. By round three it was down to 5. Beenie was one of those five.
One by one kids got tripped up until it was down to two. Beenie was still one of those two. It went back and forth until Beenie got tripped up. That meant:
Beenie placed second place over all in the Middle School Spelling Bee!!! And, that's as a 5th grader!
The kid who won is in 8th grade. Beenie did an amazing job! In the later rounds, he nailed these words:
- filibuster
- ominous
- democracy
- caribou
- pumpernickel
So they send one kid on to the regional spelling bee, and the winner of that goes on to compete in the National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC. Everyone was so amazed and proud of Beenie for getting so close as a fifth grader. He's got three more years to compete - if he wants to. (And his excitement and enthusiasm leads me to believe that he will.)
Congratulations, Beenie!!
