~*heket*~
18-02-2009, 08:32 PM
Kinda cute really :lol
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2009/02/17/news/doc499b9c888d55b375547842.txt
NORMAL -- Sixth-grader Alissa Schmidgall walked to where her family was seated in the audience after misspelling “ramen” Thursday evening at a spelling bee for area home-schooled students.
She thought it was over.
That left Annette Coffey, a Pontiac fifth-grader, to spell “pundit” correctly. She didn’t.
That brought Schmidgall back to the microphone after all. She spelled “adobe” correctly, winning the bee at College Park Christian Church, Normal.
The 12-year-old Bloomington girl will compete in March in the Grand Final Spelling Bee sponsored by The Pantagraph and Busey Bank. About two dozen students from McLean, DeWitt and Livingston counties will compete for a trip to compete May 26 to 28 in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
“I’m really nervous about it,” Schmidgall said.
Tuesday’s bee involved 10 students ages 9 to 14 who went through 23 words in eight rounds. Most were eliminated in the first couple of rounds.
Schmidgall said she was “excited and shaky” after winning.
“She hoped to do better every year — this year she really did,” said her mother, Cheri Schmidgall. “We worked on it a couple of months during the school day.”
“I’m really proud of her,” said her sister, Emma, a fifth-grader who came in third.
Pronouncing the words and providing definitions when asked was Mari McKeeth from the Normal Public Library. She has been pronouncing spelling bee words since 1991.
“I think maybe I’ve done maybe a hundred of these,” she joked afterward. “I believe it’s a lifetime appointment.”
And Coffey said she always would know how to spell “pundit” from now on.
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2009/02/17/news/doc499b9c888d55b375547842.txt
NORMAL -- Sixth-grader Alissa Schmidgall walked to where her family was seated in the audience after misspelling “ramen” Thursday evening at a spelling bee for area home-schooled students.
She thought it was over.
That left Annette Coffey, a Pontiac fifth-grader, to spell “pundit” correctly. She didn’t.
That brought Schmidgall back to the microphone after all. She spelled “adobe” correctly, winning the bee at College Park Christian Church, Normal.
The 12-year-old Bloomington girl will compete in March in the Grand Final Spelling Bee sponsored by The Pantagraph and Busey Bank. About two dozen students from McLean, DeWitt and Livingston counties will compete for a trip to compete May 26 to 28 in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
“I’m really nervous about it,” Schmidgall said.
Tuesday’s bee involved 10 students ages 9 to 14 who went through 23 words in eight rounds. Most were eliminated in the first couple of rounds.
Schmidgall said she was “excited and shaky” after winning.
“She hoped to do better every year — this year she really did,” said her mother, Cheri Schmidgall. “We worked on it a couple of months during the school day.”
“I’m really proud of her,” said her sister, Emma, a fifth-grader who came in third.
Pronouncing the words and providing definitions when asked was Mari McKeeth from the Normal Public Library. She has been pronouncing spelling bee words since 1991.
“I think maybe I’ve done maybe a hundred of these,” she joked afterward. “I believe it’s a lifetime appointment.”
And Coffey said she always would know how to spell “pundit” from now on.