Knights of Columbus Spelling Bee

Madison was one of the five sixth graders who were selected for the Knights of Columbus Spelling Bee at the beginning of February.  Madison made it to the fourth round and got out on the word boomerang.

Since then she has earned the right to represent the school in the Scripps spelling bee.  You are allowed to send one student from the school.  They had all interested students take a written test and the top five students then had a spelling bee to determine the winner.  Madison will compete in the Iowa finals against 14 other students on Saturday March 2nd.  The finals of the Scripps bee are in D.C. and are televised.  This is a pretty serious spelling bee and the word list is a big challenge.  I can't even pronounce some of the words.  There are 1150 words that are broken down by country of origin.  She has been working on them, but has only had a few weeks to learn them.  I will keep you posted on the outcome.