Third Annual BCS Spelling Bee
Calling All Bees Who Love to Spell!
Third through sixth graders at Bullis Charter School have the opportunity to participate in the third annual BCS Spelling Bee and possibly local and national ones as well!
There will be a written and oral competition at Bullis Charter School in January 2010. The winner of these events will proceed to the San Francisco Chronicle Spelling Bee in February and March 2010. The champion in this competition then advances to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. in spring of 2010.
DID YOU KNOW? - COOL FACT ABOUT SPELLING
The 21 consonants of the alphabet have names that can be spelled: bee, cee, dee, ef, gee, aitch, jay, kay (also ka), el, em, en, pee, cue, ar, ess (or es), tee, vee, double-u (or double-you), ex, wye (or wy) and zee.
BEWARE THE SPELLING TRAPS
(submitted by Grace Tsang)
Author unknown*
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, slough and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead--it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)
A moth is not a moth in mother;
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear;
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose;
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Why man alive,
I learned to talk it when I was five;
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