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Cash paid for HarBlend Veggies, Tossed ley Davidson, Indian or other Salad, Peaches, French motorcycles and related parts Bread (L-R) Hari, Anna and Teo get ready to represent Vermillion at the regional spelling bee next week by learning how to spell as Tuesday – Pork Chop, from 1900 thru 1970. Any conmany words in this book as possible. Last names weren’t used for privacy purposes. dition. Midwest collector will Company Potatoes, COURTESY PHOTO Glazed Carrots, Crunchy pick up anywhere. Phone 309-645-4623 (MCN) Cranberry Salad Ready, Set, Spell! By Sarah Wetzel For the Plain Talk Three spelling superstars from Jolley Elementary are preparing to represent Vermillion at the regional spelling bee next Saturday where they will compete against first through eighth graders. The competition will be held at 10 a.m. in the Aalfs auditorium in Slagle Hall on USD campus next Saturday. Teo, Hari and Anna, all fifth-graders, are excited for the chance to show what they've got. “My dad helped me,” said Teo when asked about how he practices. “I just spell them out and define the words that are hard to read.” According to Teo, he studies a page of spelling words per day. Hari also gets help and inspiration from his parents, studying about two hours per day. “My parents help me a lot,” he said. “They make me study. My goal this year is to win state so I can go to nationals.” Hari participated last year placing fourth at the state level. “My mom makes me study a whole list in a day,” he said. “I read it over and over again. My mom went onto MiriamWebster and took the definition of every word and put it on a piece of paper and I studied that too.” Practice, practice, practice is something that all three students agree is vital. “I just studied a lot and I worked really hard on it every single night,” Anna said. “There’s a list and it’s organized by language of origin. I just go through them all and I make flash cards for a lot of them too.” The regional competition will be on the birthday of Anna’s brother this year. “I’m still going to do it but the night before he’s having a sleepover so i’m probably just going to stay up all night studying,” she said. “My grandparents are both coming for my brother’s birthday so they’ll both be there to see me too.” According to the Scripp’s National Spelling Bee website, national winners have conquered using words like stichomythia (2014), knaidel (2013, and guetapens (2012). Teo, Anna and Hari have had their share of difficult words. Teo’s hardest word to date is ignominious. “I got out on mellifluous,” Anna said. “I’m going to remember how to spell it forever now.” Hari had a particularly difficult word which he encountered at the state level last year. “It’s pronounced ‘bobay-on’ from a different list called the thousandword list,” he said. Anna tried her hand at that word on a challenge from Hari. She spelled it ‘BOBBEJAAND.’ “No, just an N at the end,” Hari said. “BOBBEJAAN is how you spell it. That’s one word I got at state and I spelled it right. “The word I spelled wrong was when we ran out of all the words,” Hari recounted. “We went through 48 rounds. Me and the other people were still in because we were all really good. Finally they found a different list that I had never studied at all. I got the first word right. The second word was really complicated. It was 15 letters.” “In the 450 word list, there was one word that was from another language,” Teo said. “It was wunderkind. It’s German.” Teo has a strategy to help him with his spelling. “I like to spell ragout,” he said. “I thought I was going to get that wrong but then I remembered. It’s spelled more like ragout so I spelled it like that.” Sometimes spellers run into problems with pronunciation. “There was this one time in the state spelling bee where the word was pronounced ‘feet,’” Hari said. “I said FETE and they said correct. But there’s also FEAT and FEET.” “I was in the spelling bee last year too and I went up pretty high,” Anna said. “I was pretty disappointed that I didn't make it because the person saying the words pronounced one of them kind of weird so I heard it wrong so I spelled it wrong.” Luckily Anna was given another chance due to the mispronunciation. Sometimes difficulties come just from bad luck. “It’s just the luck of the draw,” Hari said. “They pick a word out of this big dictionary. You have to study that.” The Jolley students remember how frustrating it can be when you know how to spell words that other students are given. “The word I got was heuristic because both of them got out,” Hari said. “I got that one right. Then she said signet.” “I was really disappointed because I knew how to spell both of those,” Anna remembered. Just as the words seem to get harder over the years of the spelling bee, the bee itself is changing. “From this year all the way back you didn't have to say the definition,” Hari said. “From this year on if you get into the nationals you have to tell the definition too.” So how do fifthgraders deal with the inevitable nerves that come with spelling in front of an audience? “I was just really confident that I was going to do well,” Anna said. “My friends were telling me I was going to do really well and get second place.” Hari also felt strong support from his peers and teacher. He said his class cheered for him when he won and wrote nice things about him on the board. His teacher did her part by giving him a night off of homework. The student to student support could be seen even after the fact. 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We will never be able to repay all who responded in our time of need. Please know your presence was noticed, kind words were heard and the hugs and prayers were felt. Special thanks to Wendell and Delores Strom and Laurie Bailey for taking care of our home and chores. We would also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Greg Brockhaus and Brockhaus Funeral Homes, Rev. Ron Johnson and our church family at First United Methodist in Yankton for your comfort and professionalism during this time. Thanks also to First United Methodist Church in Bloomfield for providing food and warmth for fellowship following the graveside services. We are truly grateful to have so many friends and relatives to garner strength from now and always. 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The screen will occur on: Tuesday, February 3 8:30-10:00 Holy Trinity Preschool 10:30-3:00 Kidz Korner Wednesday, February 11 Students will be dismissed on Monday, February 9th as follows: Students will be dismissed on Monday, February 9th as follows: Austin and Jolley Elementary Schools – 1:50pm Austin and Jolley Elementary Schools 1:50pm Middle and High Schools – 2pm Middle and High Schools 2pm “There will be no school on Wednesday, February 11th.” “There will be no school on Wed esday, February 11th. dn Teacher In-Service will be held from 8am noon and Teacher In-Service will be held from 8am – noon and confe ences will begin at 1pm. conferences will begin at 1pm. fer 8:30-11:30 Holy Trinity Preschool 12:30-2:00 Holy Trinity Preschool 3:00-6:00pm Library (Open to the Public BY APPOINTMENT ONLY) Friday, February 20th 8:30-10:00 Newcastle Public Preschool 10:00-12:00pm in Newcastle (Open to Public BY APPOINTMENT ONLY) To schedule an appointment plea se contct Donna Davey or Jen Bensen at Har tington Public School.