Spelling Bee Practice

As you guessed it from the title we are practicing for our spelling bee. The children will have a practice round on Friday and then two weeks from there the real Bee will be held at our local library! So the kids get a break from their normal spelling and vocabulary routines and every morning we hold our very own practice bee. However I allow mistakes as we all learn our words.

Monday and Tuesday comprised of words that are commonly misspelled. Misspelled is actually misspelled a lot apparently. Words like occurence, February, succeed, etc. Then we had words that are homonyms often misspelled. Words like cereal:serial, colonel:kernel, and stationary:stationery. These words are why asking the judges to use it in a sentence is important. Today we practiced on words that we have today in modern english that derived from latin words. Words like obsequious, gregarious, foliate, captitulation, filament, etc. Challenge words are just for fun but can you spell "infinitesimal"? Can you even pronounce it? Of course you can because I just spelled it for you. Some of these words I've had to look up meanings. For example, the word bellicose. Do you know the meaning? Lets see if you get it by the sentence, "When Zech and Isabella are playing Star Wars Lightsabers they are being bellicose." Well did you get it that it mean warlike or warlike temperment? You are such a good student. Maybe you should come join our spelling bee!