Homeschool spelling bee: Saturday Dec 5, 2015

This year's Homeschool Spelling Bee, open to all homeschooled students living in the Times Union newspaper circulation area, will take place on Saturday Dec 5, 2015.   This is the 22st annual homeschool bee for this area.   For the past few years, our homeschool bee has also been honored to include Augustine Academy students.  Our two spelling bee winners (i.e., the highest finishing homeschool speller and the highest finishing Augustine Academy speller) will both advance to represent homeschoolers and Augustine Academy, respectively, at the Times Union/BOCES bee at Proctor's Theater on February. The regional champion of the Times Union/BOCES bee in Proctor's will win an all-expenses paid trip to spell in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington DC in late May.

The homeschool bee will take place  at Calvary Church 1230 Rugby Road in Schenectady at 10 a.m. Spellers should arrive by 9:45 to register and get preliminary instructions.

Spellers do NOT need to register in advance. We ask that parents of spellers contribute $2 per speller (maximum of $5 per family) to contribute towards the cost of heating the building for the bee and to provide a small prize for our winner and runner-up.

Excellent free study materials from the Scripps Spelling Bee are available here.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about our homeschool spelling bee are available here. 

The FAQ will answer many of your questions about your students' eligibility to participate, how to prepare, and what happens next for the winner of our homeschool bee.

If you have additional questions after reading our FAQ, please feel free to contact me.

Mary O'Keeffe
mathcircle@gmail.com
Home School Bee Organizer