Even though these students are young, this was far from an easy competition. Words for the Spelling Bee were selected from “Fry's First 900 Words,” which are lists of the most commonly used words in reading and writing. All students participated in the first round, which took place in individual classrooms. From there, the three top spellers from each class competed against the other classrooms in their house. Next, the top five spellers from each house went onto the last round where their families were invited to watch the final spell-off! Some of the words the spellers had to take on were scientists, especially, Europe, determine, equation, industry, conditions, and actually. In the end, our 2nd grade Spelling Bee overall winner was Nathan Tyler from Mrs. Case’s class, with Sammy Mullett-Miller from Mrs. Miller's class earning the 2nd Place Ribbon and Rae Schneider from Mrs. Lust's class earning the 3rd Place Ribbon. The other seven finalists were Lindsay Bright, Alex Haughn, Landen McCain, Ethan Moore, Kyren Sheppard, Dominic Stewart and Madison Vanblarcume. Congratulations to all our participants!