What feels like many ages ago, the school newsletter came home with a blurb about the spelling bee. James happened to be on the couch when I was reading it & I asked if he'd like to participate. He did, so I signed him up & emailed the sponsor that we'd like the study packet. Then we got COVID and the school closed for three days due to staff shortages and there were three snow days and we forgot about it.
The sponsor might have also forgotten about it, or maybe there were just too many disruptions due to missed school, but we didn't get the study packet sent home til two days before the bee, when James promptly freaked out because he hadn't been going to the Spelling Club meetings. I reminded him about that conversation way back & asked if he still wanted to do it & he said yes. He reviewed words after school right up til the bee & practiced following the Scripps rules. He was getting all of the 3rd grade words right and really a great deal of the 4th and 5th grade words, too.
Then came the night of the Spelling Bee and James was the first kiddo to be knocked out! On a word I'm sure he knew, but it was a little bit stressful of a situation! I was impressed with how well he did practicing & he says he'd like to try again next year.
He stayed up to tell me all about it when I got home from work. There was much excitement. Leah didn't want to sit still, and then they left her coat in the auditorium, but they got locked out of the building, and then the line at McDonalds to get an ice cream was too long, but then finally they got frozen custards at Randy's. Whew.
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