Its been years since we participated in a Spelling Bee. So we jumped at the chance. We started studying the words with exactly a week until the Spelling Bee. Each kid had many challenging words, and we worked a little each day...and we worked late the night before...so I let the kids sleep in the morning of the Bee.
Gabriel had a more difficult time with the words, his mind is more mathematical, the spelling words are not intuitive for him. Isaaiah has a pretty easy time knowing words without studying them...but calculating area of a triangle is not intuitive for her. Well anyway...Isaaiah knew all of these words cold, she is a fast speller...and not a little cocky about it....so I cautioned her to slow down and think and spell slowly. Gabriel views each word as a new Mt. Everest for him to conquer carefully. So it was an amazing twist when Isaaiah spelled laundry wrong...and Gabriel made it to the top four. She was upset, but it was a perfect humbling experience which will benefit her in the future...she will be more cautious and won't underestimate test questions, spelling bees....etc.
Gabriel learned a great lesson too...that he has a great mind for competing in areas that are not a natural talent for him. He is able to pave new sidewalks into areas of learning and compete as well as the "naturals" do. He almost made it to the Regional Spelling Bee..he missed "ineffable"...which he had trouble with memorizing the "in" or the "en" previously. He was excited with his placing and it broadened his perspective about what he can accomplish.
The audio is bad and Gabriel spelled quietly...so I put some music to the clip...
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