S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G B-E-E

Chase made the spelling bee! Two students from each of the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classes were determined by elimination. Chris and I were in Colorado over the weekend and I didn't remember about the spelling bee until Monday night at dinner. "Chase, tomorrow is the spelling bee! Did you study your words over the weekend?" "I don't know where my list is. It's no big deal." "OK....."

The contestants drew numbers to determine the order in which they will take their turn. Chase was happy to be number 12. The audience is only allowed to clap at the end of each round so it seemed all the applause was for Chase since he was last. He totally ate it up!!!

G-R-I-D-I-R-O-N One of Chase's favorite words from the competion. He broke into a huge grin when he heard it...no way was he going to miss that one!

Jake and Chase are totally relaxed. Tara and Emmy, the other hand, seem a little tense!

Twenty rounds later, the last eight between Jake and Chase, the winner is finally determined. Jake misspelled "cachet" spelling it without the "t" on the end. Chase spelled it correctly and then had to spell the next word correctly. "Tycoon" was the final word. Chase said he knew how to spell if from playing Mafia Wars on Facebook. I guess video games are all bad!

Presenting the 2009-2010 Spelling Bee Champion of Meadow Lane Elementary School!

Chase will represent MLE at the district spelling bee on February 11th. Instead of a one-page list of words to study, he got an 85-page booklet with words, pronunciations, and definitions. Here are a couple of words from the last page: affenpinscher and Pentateuchal. Looks like we'll definitely have to do some studying!!

"A'm so proud of ma bay-bay!!""

I took these two pictures for the yearbook. Chase likes the first one and I like the second one. Which do you think should be published in the yearbook?