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What: The annual Stocklmeir Spelling Bee!
When: Tues, April 8 (TK - Grade 2) & Wed, April 9 (Grades 3 - 5) from 5:30 - 7:30pm.
How to Register: Please complete one form per participating child by Thurs, April 3rd. Registration is $20 per child.
Where to Learn More about the process and how to prepare: Details below!
Registration
Registration is open until 10pm on Thursday, April 3rd, and is $20 per child. Please fill out one form per child if you are registering multiple children. There will be no exceptions made for late registrations, so please make sure to complete ASAP if your child is interested!
There is assistance available for those that are unable to pay for registration: please contact spellingbee@stocklmeirpta.org.
Word List and Preparation
For the second year in a row, we are using the spelling lists curated by the Scripps National Spelling Bee organization. These are proprietary lists that we have purchased, so please do not share outside of the Stocklmeir community or post online.
The full study list can be found here.
Children should focus on learning the words appropriate for their grades to start, and then can move to more advanced words, if interested.
TK, K, and 1st Grade: Words 1-50
2nd Grade: Words 51-100
3rd Grade: Words 101-150
4th Grade: Words 151-200
5th Grade: Words 201-250
FYI, words 251-300 are 6th grade, 301-350 are 7th grade, and 351-450 are 8th grade.
Please note that based on last year’s experiences, there is a very good chance that participants will be asked to spell words that are above their grade level in later rounds of the Spelling Bee. You can learn more about how that will work in the Rules section below.
Spelling Bee Rules
Students will be organized into groups by grade, TK - 5, with participants engaging in the spelling bee alongside only students in their same grade (there will be no competition across grades).
Following a traditional spelling bee format, the Stocklmeir Spelling Bee will be conducted in rounds. Only students that are able to spell the word they are given correctly will move on to the next round. We will plan for a total of 10 rounds per grade, but anticipate that the younger grades may have fewer rounds (subject to change, based on number and skill of participants!). If there are still multiple participants at the end of the 10th round, the spelling bee will be deemed a tie and all of the remaining participants will be named winners.
At the beginning of each turn, a Pronouncer will read a word, its definition, and its part of speech to the participant, and ask them to spell the word. The participant will have up to 60 seconds to spell the word correctly in order to move on to the next round. The participant can ask the Pronouncer to say the word again, and/or define it up to 2 more times during their 60 second turn. If they run out of time or spell the word incorrectly, the participant will not move on to the next round.
Progression through the word list:
Grade level
The first rounds of the spelling bee will focus on only words assigned to that grade (i.e., 3rd graders will only be asked to spell 3rd grade words)
Grade + 1 level
Once students have spelled all grade level words, we will move to the grade + 1 level words
If after 2 rounds of the grade + 1 level words, there are <8 students remaining, we will continue until the end of the grade + 1 level words before moving to grade + 2 level words
If after 2 rounds of the grade + 1 level words there are >=8 students remaining, we will move to the grade + 2 level’s words
Grade + 2 level
This level may not be reached, depending on how students do in previous rounds.
If after 2 rounds of the grade + 2 level words, there are <5 students remaining, we will continue until the end of the grade + 2 level words
If after 2 rounds of grade + 2 level words there are >=5 students remaining, we will move on to the grade + 3 level words
Grade + 3 and Grade + 4 level
These levels may or may not be reached, depending on how students do in previous rounds
Participants and winners of the Spelling Bee will get some special recognition by their classmates and the school!
