Antoine School's First Annual Spelling Bee Contest

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As part of my involvement in the English Department, I conducted a Spelling Bee competition at the elementary school I work at. I invited all the kids to participate voluntarily. As a result, I had more contestants than I needed. I had to carry out a preliminary round the day before the competition so that I could have 5 kids per grade left.

The competition was done by rounds were two grades participated at the time. The whole competition was carried out in English so sometimes it was up to my applause of lack of to notify the parents, teachers and students that they had spelled correctly or incorrectly a word. Chilean kids are always full of energy and I was a little worried that they would misbehave during the competition. On the contrary, they were really quiet and provided a lot of support for their fellow classmates. The competitors who lost were really dissapointed and the ones who won really happy.

At the end of the day all the teachers were really happy that they had helped their students take that first step into becoming fluent in a second language.

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Photos

My lovely bulletin board
The kids tore it apart but it still looks awesome!

The feared podium
We had to put a couple steps behind it so kids could reach it

With our 1st grade spellers
My coteacher and I with the 1st grade spellers

Our lovely judges
Two other volunteers and the regional English coordinator judged the competition

O-V-E-R-W-E-I-G-H-T
Our first place speller!