Xander placed fourth in the 3rd Grade Spelling Bee today!!!
He was SUPER close to making it to third place and even beyond…but when the student in fourth place missed a word, he ended up coming back to have a spell off with Xander for third place. On the next round, they both got their words right. During the round after that, they both got their words wrong. In what ended up being the final round between them, the student in fourth place spelled his word correctly, and then Xander misspelled his. So, Xander ended up being bumped from third place to fourth place…he immediately started crying. Because of his major allergy/asthma cough kicking up with his crying, I had to sit with him in the hallway until he calmed down enough to go back in and accept his participation award. Poor buddy…he took it so hard…but he really did so incredibly well. The word he missed was “doffing”…which I have never heard of…he spelled it “dauphing” which I thought was a pretty creative spelling.
ANYWAY, due to his amazing innate spelling ability, his teachers gave him the “Super Speller” classroom award at the end of the school year. Go, Xander!!!
