Sentences with phrase «of spelling bee»

Think of your language accomplishments like a grown - up version of the spelling bee.

Jason Bateman «Bad Words» Starring and directed by Bateman, «Bad Words» is the story of one foulmouthed dropout who finds a loophole in the rules of a spelling bee tournament that allows him to compete.

If the trailer for «Bad Words» reminds you a lot of the 2003 comedy «Bad Santa,» only set in the world of spelling bees instead of shopping mall Santa Clauses, you're not alone.

June Kronholz wrote about the popularity of spelling bees and other academic competitions in the Summer 2010 issue of Education Next.

I've never understood why the winners of spelling bees get lauded and labelled as smart or intelligent.

Not exact matches

I memorized Bible verses through «sword drill» competitions, a kind of Evangelical spelling bee in which children compete to see who can find, say, Habakkuk 3:3 the fastest.

Manager of the great Iowa Hawkeyes blog, Black Heart Gold Pants, and a 7 - time 5th grade spelling bee champion.

A trio of Bees Hall of Fame members, Jimmy Jay, Keith Millen, and Dai Hopkins, have also turned out for both sides while one man remembered for slightly less illustrious reasons, Murray Jones, had unsuccessful spells at both clubs in the early 1990s.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

Constantly reminding your child of things like, «Your sister made it to the top round in the spelling bee because she practiced all the time,» or «Did you notice how many points Johnny got today?

As representatives of Saugerties, Caroline and Mia will be among only a small number of Ulster County students attending the regional spelling bee.

The continuing and mysterious disappearance of the bees — aside from threatening one - third of the United States» food supply and at least $ 15 billion worth of agricultural productivity — could spell dessert disaster.

This unpretentious paperback has 34 quizzes, each of 30 questions with answers: a mixture of plain query, multiple choice, spelling bee, anagram, odd - one - out and identify - the - drawing.

Then there are the bees: Regardless of whether honeybees become extinct as a species as a result of colony collapse disorder, climate change and other threats, the local extinction of various honeybee populations and the pollination they provide could spell disaster for human agriculture.

We tend to think of pollinating insects as our ecological friends, but in the wrong place nonnative bees can spell trouble instead by competing with native insects, promoting reproduction in nonnative plants and potentially spreading disease.

But as Shawn and Gus investigate a series of odd cases, including spelling - bee treachery, murder at a Civil War reenactment, a sorority - house haunting and a case in which the sole witness is a cat, they inevitably produce results, a fact that even Lassiter must begrudgingly admit.

Richard Gere stars in this disjointed film as the father of a contender for top prize in a national spelling bee.

Jason Bateman stars as a 40 year old man who enters a national spelling bee competition by means of exploiting a loop hole in Bad Words from Focus Features.

After winning his regional tournament, Guy is begrudgingly invited to the prestigious Golden Quill national spelling bee, much to the dismay of its buttoned - up administrators (Allison Janney and Philip Baker Hall), who feel that their sacred competition has been tainted.

For reasons known only to him, Guy takes advantage of a loophole to compete in spelling bees, taking it all the way to the annual, national «Golden Quill.»

The film, which premieres at the festival on March 7th, sees Bateman as Guy Tribly, a 40 - year - old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee.

The best scenes of Bad Words involve Bateman's character and his spelling bee rival, Chaitanya Chopra played by Rohan Chand.

Featuring six brand new word games of logic and deduction, you'll be solving murder cases and acing local spelling bees in no time.

With the help of an old friend, Mr. Larabee (Fishburne, Assault on Precinct 13), a one - time national spelling bee contestant, Akeelah begins her training for the big show — if she doesn't cave from peer pressure, her home life, and her own natural fears.

I also really liked that during the televised spelling bee, the look of the movie transitioned into looking like an HD broadcast from public television as if you was witnessing the chaos and mayhem from your own living room.

Proceed by setting up a spelling bee, with students forming teams based on the color of their ribbons.

But I am a child of modern education, and correct spelling was (and is) held in high regard — witness the fervor of the national spelling bee, that beauty pageant for young brainiacs, which has reached such a fever pitch that it veers close to child abuse.

Across six studies, grittier adolescents earned higher grade point averages than their peers, grittier West Point cadets were more likely to stay after the first summer, grittier spelling bee participants outlasted less tenacious competitors, and grittier adults had higher levels of education and made fewer career changes than less gritty peers (Duckworth & Quinn, 2009).

Her new article from the Summer 2010 issue of Ed Next looks at the growth of academic bees and bowls like the Scripps National Spelling Bee and the National Geographic Bee.

June Kronholz wrote about spelling bees in the Summer 2010 issue of Ed Next.

June Kronholz wrote about spelling bees and other academic competitions in the Summer 2010 issue of Ed Next.

But they haven't slowed the apparent growing interest among middle schoolers in the Scripps spell - off or any of the other bees, bowls, and academic olympiads that will climax in national championships this spring.

We have seen examples of chess clubs, sports teams, academic Olympiads, spelling bees, and science clubs organized by virtual schools, but rarely without logistical challenges.

Girls wearing bonnets and long skirts and boys in straw hats and neckerchiefs stood on either side of a one - room schoolhouse, fidgeting as they waited for words during a spelling bee.

How about a kinesthetic spelling bee in which teams of students spell vocabulary words by positioning their bodies in the shapes of letters?

Erica won the school's spelling bee and title of 2000 - 01 champion last month after spelling her last word, «calendar.»

His responsibilities there included helping students improve their grades, overseeing the hands - on learning center, communicating with parents regarding student academic performance and coordinating annual events such as the spelling bee and Battle of the Brains.

That answer depends on the interpretation of the term assessment — are you counting pop quizzes and spelling bees, essays and multimedia projects, teacher - made and standardized tests, entrance and exit tests, pre-tests and post-tests, interim and benchmark assessments, statewide and national tests, and preparation for the AP exam, SAT, and ACT?

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This is a spelling award that you can present to your students for a variety of different reasons: excellence on weekly spelling tests, improvement on weekly spelling tests, improved spelling in creative writing, or a spelling bee competition.

Two Across by debut novelist Jeff Bartsch is the story of two spelling bee champions connecting over words and, of course, a sham wedding.

Explore a variety of school topics in Hamsters, Shells, and Spelling Bees, edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins.

Jealous of a classmate's renown as spelling bee champion, Judy Moody devises a series of outlandish schemes to gain attention in this handsomely designed and accessible novel.

Her parents are barely speaking to one another and her best friend has come under the spell of the queen bee Brianna.

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Except for the Spanish Water Dog, the list appears to be more like a spelling bee challenge than names of dogs!

Don't spell «bee» just because you can, but maybe spell «breaking» instead of just «break» or «beak.»

Good arguments on both sides of the issue to be sure, but as a former spelling bee runner up, you can guess what I'd say.

He was a guest helper at a spelling bee, using a flash card with «potatoe» on it, and corrected a student's spelling of «potato» by suggesting it needed the «e» at the end.

The double letters of accommodated foil many a spelling bee participant.