SPELLING BEE

         To continue a fun and educational tradition, the Horace Mann PTA will be sponsoring a live 2008 Spring Spelling Bee competition for the 3rd through 5th grades. The goal of PTA is to create both an anticipated event that will promote school spirit and also provide an incentive to study and review spelling words that have been selected from the reading series of each respective grade.

          While it certainly isn't a requirement that each child participate, we hope that every child would want to participate to be selected to represent his/her class in the competition.  

          To be a serious contender, we encourage your child to study their grade-appropriate spelling words and those of the grade below.  These words can be found by clicking on the bees at the bottom of the page.

          Starting during the month of March, two spelling tests will be administered by the teachers to those students who would like to participate.  Through this process of elimination, five students from each class will be selected to compete against those selected from the other classes within each grade.   

          There will be a prize for the winners of each grade.  In addition, the winners will be featured in the Beverly Hills Courier.

          In March, once the process of selection is well underway, a flyer will be sent home detailing the event that will be held in the auditorium, the early evening of Thursday, April 10th, 2008.

          Please encourage your children to participate and help make this event so successful that it will not only become a long-lived tradition at Horace Mann but will also inspire the other schools in the district to imitate. 

Click on the bees below to access the lists of vocabulary words for each grade.

Elementary School	Middle School
Grade 3	Grade 6
Grade 4	Grade 7
Grade 5	Grade 8

2008 Spelling Bee contact: Deborah Kado

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