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Seventh Grader Wins CMS Spelling Bee - Winning Word: E-X-O-N-E-R-A-T-E
The annual Coronado Middle School spelling bee was organized by Ms. Kathy MacDonald, also affectionately known as "The Queen Bee" and held Thursday, February 2, 2012. Each Humanities class, a combination of Language Arts and History, held its own classroom spelling bee. The winner from each classroom, grades 6-8, qualified for the school wide spelling bee. There were forty five total participants. Granzer Hall was filled with parents, siblings and friends of the competitors.
Coronado Middle School's Granzer Hall February 2, 2012 during the annual Spelling Bee.
Vice Principal Karin Mellina read the words to the participants. Principal Jay Marquand, past librarian Susan Schelkun and current librarian Connie LeFevre acted as the judging panel, while Ms. MacDonald oversaw the entire event and offered hugs of congratulations and a certificate to each student as she or he exited the competition.
A participant awaits pronunciation of her next word.
From left to right: Karin Mellina, Susan Schelkun, Connie LeFevre, Kathy MacDonald, Champion Grace Weisbrod and Jay Marquand.
The bee started with words like "flock", "broth", and "title" and got progressively more difficult with each round. The sixth round, in particular, saw ten students mispell words like "facade", "resuscitable" and "linguistically."
Seventh grader Grace Weisbrod outlasted the competition and won the bee by spelling "exonerate". Congratulations to Grace and all the participants for a job well done.
2012 CMS Spelling Bee Champion Grace Weisbrod
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Congrats Grace!!
Comment by lisa on February 4, 2012 at 11:20am So glad to know spelling bees are still alive and well. Brings back memories for me. Thanks Kellee for an interesting story about our local students.
Comment by Kathy Schafer on February 6, 2012 at 8:16am Great job Grace!!!
Comment by Ed Weisbrod on February 6, 2012 at 12:44pm Sitting in the audience was a nerve wracking experience - I think more so than for the kids spelling the words. Kudos to each and every participant and congratulations to all the parents!
Comment by John m on February 9, 2012 at 5:44am Comment (keep it clean, civil and on topic)
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