Sentences with phrase «on spelling bees»

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I'll never win the spelling bee (now mater haow harde I trye), but the good news is that selling (not spelling) intelligence doesn't depend on classroom learning, textbook retention or the ability to nail the crossword puzzle.

Some typos are more unfortunate than others, but this typo from a Monday morning report on «the world's longest spelling bee» goes down in Typo History.

These hopes are often voiced as narratives about success on the Little League field or in the sixth - grade spelling bee.

I new someone intellergent would point out my spelling foibles — they're are always clever people you can relay on to help with a spelling bee, and even yew and Chas chip in two.

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.

In the film, based on a screenplay by Andrew Dodge, Bateman stars as Guy Trilby, a 40 - year - old with a photographic memory who decides to enter spelling bees, progressing all the way to nationals.

Pity those who missed out on that edifying scene at the national spelling bee where Akeelah (Keke Palmer) spells out the word «filiopietistic.»

She's already worked on The Way, Way Back, Touchy Feely and Jason Bateman's spelling bee comedy Bad Words.

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.

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.

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

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.

The district dropped middle - school sports, cut back on travel for its high - school teams, and pared $ 500,000 from the $ 2 million budget that supports afterschool activities like the Math Olympiad and spelling bee at Centennial Elementary, the technology and drama clubs at Rocky Top Middle School, and the anime (Japanese animation) and Knowledge Bowl clubs at Mountain Range High.

With improved educational materials readily available, home schoolers are winning spelling and geography bees, scoring off the charts on statewide tests, and gaining access to elite colleges.

The perfectionist who wins a spelling bee, for example, might get down on himself because he hesitated over a particularly tricky word.

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?

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

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.

And in particular, what's going on with Varroa destructor, the bee - decimating parasitic mite with a name like a Harry Potter spell.

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.

Whether it's the time Jane got her name in the paper for winning the town spelling bee, or the time she was involved in a DUI, nothing dies on the Internet.

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.

I won a school spelling bee in third grade, and since then I've been on the lookout for ways to relive that glory.