WIS Spelling Bee

Adler had her school spelling bee today. She was nervous but seemed to be holding it together great. I was probably more nervous for her. She is a GREAT speller but hasn't had any luck advancing to the City Spelling Bee in past years. At the WIS the whole school is given a spelling test and the 28 highest scores in the school advance to the spelling bee. Her first word... C-I-D-E-R!!! She asked for the definition--nodded and spelled the word correctly right away. She made it through the next round easily.... and the third round came. Her word was "violate". She stood up, said violate and spelled it V-I-A-L-A-T-E. *darn* She was out...getting Tenth place. Not bad but I am sure she was disappointed that she didn't make it to the City Bee. Oh well, I was VERY proud of her and I am sure I would have been out quickly... those words were HARD!!!

Chelo and Crosby had come with me to watch. The crowd had to be absolutely silent...well, Crosby got bored after about 10 minutes and it took everything I had to keep her quiet for the rest of the bee. Chelo (who had gotten 3rd last week at her school, advanced to the City Bee! *we didn't get any pics so I will update how she does with her own post of that bee*) was sitting next to the little neighbor kids who were making noises at her and she was trying to keep them quiet. Well, Mr. Hammer (the WIS principal) stopped the person spelling and said "Chelo Be Quiet!!" OMG! I am SURE she was mortified!!! She is a quiet kid by nature, pretty ironic that she would get busted for talking at a spelling bee!! I am sure it was a lesson learned!! So needless to say the WIS Spelling Bee was quite a RUCKUS between nerves, antsy 5yr olds, and chatty kids but we made it through just fine and as usual with no time to dwell on anything...cause it was off to piano lessons from there and we made it just in the nick of time!!!