SES held their spelling bee Tuesday, Three head to Rawlins for county bee
Fourth grader Bennett Keel spells his word for the judges
Valerie Larscheid and Ms. Ruland pick up written entries at the end of found four.
Twenty-four students work on the written portion of the bee.
Participating spellers raise their written word lists for collection.
The eventual winners were, from left, Aspen Sewell (2nd), Haley Grubb (3rd) and Fischer Williams (1st). The photographer thought it would be clever to make them spell "winner."
Twenty-four third to sixth graders started off the evening Tuesday writing spelling words being spoken to them. After five rounds of ten words apiece, the 10 best spellers were selected to head into the verbal portion of the evening. Slowly the 10 were pared down by the up to 8th grade level words. The competition heated up as Haley Grubb, Aspen Sewell and Fischer Williams took turns at the microphone. Eventually only Sewell and Williams remained and those two correctly spelled word after word for quite a few rounds.
Eventually Williams emerged as the winner and the three finalists were presented with ribbons and dictionaries while all the participants collected certificates and candy bars for their efforts.
The winners will be treated to a taco lunch when they compete in the Carbon County Spelling Bee starting around noon on Feb. 7 at the Jeffrey Center at 315 West Pine St. in Rawlins.
Saratoga Elementary teachers will also be selecting their best in-class spellers to compete in the All-School Spelling Bee earlier that day.
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