Curious_Fem
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I just have to share this with you wonderful people.
My 12 year old son was selected as 1 of 5 kids in their entire school to participate in a district-wide Spelling Bee. The Spelling Bee was last night, there were 8 schools there....5 kids from each school. Grades 5-8. He came in 3rd place!!!!!!! The 2 kids that beat him were last year's 1st and 2nd place winners!!! Not bad for his first time, huh??? OMG....I had tears in my eyes afterward.
My mom was there too. She is almost completely deaf and we figured she wasn't going to be able to hear anything, but she wanted to be there to support him anyway. Well, one of the kids got the word "siege" and she looked at me and said, "I hate that word, it always stumps me." She could hear the words being given to the kids, but she couldn't hear the kids spelling the words!!! Then afterwards I met my son's teacher and heard nothing but praises about him. What a wonderful night!
Oh...the word he misspelled was 'mariachi'....but the round before that he spelled 'chrysalis' correctly....go figure.
My 12 year old son was selected as 1 of 5 kids in their entire school to participate in a district-wide Spelling Bee. The Spelling Bee was last night, there were 8 schools there....5 kids from each school. Grades 5-8. He came in 3rd place!!!!!!! The 2 kids that beat him were last year's 1st and 2nd place winners!!! Not bad for his first time, huh??? OMG....I had tears in my eyes afterward.
My mom was there too. She is almost completely deaf and we figured she wasn't going to be able to hear anything, but she wanted to be there to support him anyway. Well, one of the kids got the word "siege" and she looked at me and said, "I hate that word, it always stumps me." She could hear the words being given to the kids, but she couldn't hear the kids spelling the words!!! Then afterwards I met my son's teacher and heard nothing but praises about him. What a wonderful night!
Oh...the word he misspelled was 'mariachi'....but the round before that he spelled 'chrysalis' correctly....go figure.