Regional spelling bee ‘chance of a lifetime’

Now they all head to the Florida Times-Union Regional Spelling Bee, began in 1944 and open to students in fifth through eighth grades who won their designated county’s spelling bee in a 14-county Northeast Florida district. “I never thought I could do it”, she said.

Henry Webb has announced the results of the 2016 Floyd County School District Spelling Bee.

Nick said the beginning of the competition was nerve-racking because he was the first person in the group and he didn’t want to start off by misspelling a word. Her sister Leah participated in the system competition past year as Johnson’s champion and her brother Aaron was in the spell-off representing the school in 2013.

Sofia was one of 25 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who competed in the latest annual competition, sponsored by the Peabody Education Foundation and held at the Northshore Mall, near Nordstrom. “Tina and I made a decision years ago not to have cable TV in our house, which I think contributed to our kids becoming voracious readers”. If I can get in 10 or 15 minutes a night, I still can get the studying I need done. The victor of that contest will move on to the national Scripps Howard Spelling Bee.

The victor of the Lee County bee will advance to the regional bee in Memphis.