South End Spelling Bee

The next step was to win the South End Spelling Bee. 15-16 of these kids would go on to the District Spelling Bee. They started out with 82 kids. Cee Ryle's words were:

Round 1 "totem"

Round 2 "policy"

Round 3 "drudgery"

Round 4 "rejuvenescent"

Round 5 "courteous"

Round 6 "beige"

They had so many good spellers that they ran out of words a lot faster than they thought they would so they started using words from previous years that kids had not studied. That was the beginning of round 5 and about half the kids got out.

After round 6 only 9 kids were still in. So they would all be going on. Then they had to do another round with the other kids that had just gotten out so they could add up to 15. At this point CR could just relax, he knew he made it to the next level.

The funny thing about round 5 was that CR did not understand the word beige and was not sure what they were saying. So he asked for the country of origin. The word came from many countries so that did not help him. (We were in the audience just stressing!) So he then asked for the definition. Once he understood what it meant he said "ooohhh beige" and spelled the world quickly. I wish I would have recorded that. We didn't get done until 10:30pm and G was tired so we were trying to keep her quiet.

He was the only one from his school to go to District. March 10th is the date.