A Georgia Girl in Germany

With our snow news of late, I can’t neglect to share some other important news. Tuesday morning, Zachary participated in the 5th grade spelling bee. This year’s competition was set up by grade-level, with the top four contestants in each grade progressing to the school-wide spelling bee next week.


There were 19 5th graders who entered the competition, and most of them had met at lunchtime during the past few weeks for study sessions. They were all well-prepared. Zachary’s first words included “fiesta,” cobalt,” thermal,” and “hearth.” After the first four rounds, half of the students were left standing and ready for the fifth round. Zachary correctly spelled “metaphor” during that round. The other eight students all spelled their words correctly too, so I thought the spelling bee might last several more rounds.

By the end of the sixth round, however, the tempo had changed and there were only four students left standing. Since Zachary correctly spelled “pentathlon,” he is one of the four 5th-graders moving up to the school-wide competition next week. You can bet I'll be there next week supporting him in the next round of competition! No matter how he does though, I'm proud of him for the effort he's put into it thus far.

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