This genius idea came from one of my friends (thank you Lisa) and I showed my students the film "Akeelah and the Bee" to get them motivated and geared up for the competition. The hilarious part of the whole this is that they were more interested in the American school system as seen in the movie! Despite the abundance of American culture questions they did in fact get excited about doing their very own Bee. I gave them word lists to study from (these were actually high level vocabulary words from U.S competitions). They had 5 weeks to study for the Bee!
Obviously camera shy- only a few showed their faces!!
The competition lasted two days and 22 students competed in the Bee. I was blown away by their abilities and their commitment to the competition! All in all, it was a great success and the students enjoyed every minute of it- plus, they learned a whack load of new vocabulary words!
Here are a few of the students!
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Hey there! That's so awesome that your spelling bee was such a success! Did you end up having to use some really hard words (that weren't on the study guide)? And I'm curious as to some of the hardest words that students DID spell correctly. I *heart* spelling!!!!
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