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Spelling Bee Word Lists Now Available

Submitted by Administrator on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 6:03pm.

Greetings, fellow homeschoolers!

The registrations for the Living Water's Garden State Homeschool Spelling Bee, scheduled for January 9th, have been coming in - thank you!  The deadline for registering is Monday, October 10th!

There are 3 lists to study from (click on each link):  Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. They are also available on Living Water's Spelling Bee web page in the Resource Center section.

Your 2nd to 4th grade student should only spend time on the Beginner list; it is unlikely that we will need to move to the Intermediate list with them.  But, if your young student
is a superior speller, by all means move forward through the lists and have fun!

Your 5th to 8th grade student should review the Beginner list and will find that they can already spell most of these words.  They should spend the bulk of their time on the Intermediate list.  If they are highly motivated, they can move onto the Advanced list!  Again, it is unlikely that we will need to move onto the Advanced list, but I will be delighted if this happens.

These lists are long (about 500 words on each list) but preparing for the Bee in January is very doable when you think of it this way:  The Bee is roughly 4 months away.  You have at least 20 days out of each month to review.  Doing just 10 words a day would enable you to study 800 words and this is much more than what's needed to be prepared!

These lists come from The Herald - a newspaper in PA that runs a solid spelling bee.  I obtained written permission from them to use these copyrighted lists.  Scripps does not want non-Scripps feeder bees to use their word lists.

Please fee free to contact me with any questions at gardenstatespellingbee@verizon.net.

Ro Laberee

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