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– The International School always has a number of activities to enhance English
language skills of the students and spelling bee is one such activity, to
improve English spelling. The contest was held on 15/2/13.
Spelling
bee is a contest where a student is asked to spell challenging English words
within a stipulated time limit. It was a spectacular show with a dazzling
backdrop.
It
was conducted at various levels for different age groups of classes I to V.
Firstly, the contest was held at the individual class level for preliminary
screening and then the selected students were divided into 4 groups comprising
children from different classes.
The
idea behind such grouping is to develop mutual cooperation and team spirit
which is very much needed in the present day competitive corporate social
scenario.
The
groups were named as honey bee, bumble bee, queen bee and busy bee.
Four
rounds were conducted beginning with Round 1-Write Right Magic, where the words
were spelled out and the students had to write the spellings ,then Round 2-
Jumble Tumble in which the words were scrambled and the correct word had to be
told orally by the team representative followed by Round 3-Tic-Tac-Toe where
the team gets to select a letter and words starting with that letter are
spelled and the team representative had to spell out the word and finally Round
4 Look –o-meter in which pictures are shown and the word has to be spelled out.
The
spelling bee was widely appreciated and showed a lot of excitement and
enthusiasm among the students.
