It takes a lot of practice and diligence to be a fifth-grade spelling champion. Vogel Intermediate student Samyukta Neeraj spelled the word opacity, leading to a win in the Zone 8 Spelling Bee at ...

ST. HELENA — The 5th Grade Spelling Bee started with simple words – Alice Baxter spelled “wish” as the first word and Annette Glynn spelled “said” correctly as the second ...

The Fifth Grade Spelling Bee at Southwestern Elementary School was held May 17. The young participants spent more than a month preparing and practicing for the big day. When spelling bee day arrived, ...

The bad weather that canceled three days of school before the Charleston school district’s Christmas break will also mean that a traditional spelling bee for fifth-graders probably won’t take ...

BY RACHEL GRACE TOUSSAINT NEWMARKET - "Your word is ?showstopper?," Newmarket Elementary School Principal Gregg Sargent said, as 54 fourth- and fifth-grade spelling bee competitors awaited with ner… ...

What do the words mallard, unobtrusiveness and conscription have in common? These are a few of the words fifth-grader Benjamin Smith spelled correctly at the regional spelling bee held last Sunday ...

There was no need to take a census to figure out the winner of the 2010 fifth-grade spelling bee. All you had to do was find the student who was being mobbed by her classmates.

The first-place winner in this year’s fifth-grade Spelling Bee is Siddharth Baphna from Lincoln School, who secured victory by correctly spelling the word “pasteurize.” ...

It was quite an “adventure,” but Silvara Barak had the mental “equipment” it took to win the UpValley Women’s Club’s 47th Annual Vintage 5th Grade Spelling Bee. The St. Helena ...