Wheatland

Wheatland Middle School Coordinators: Michelle Trimble and Chad Burkholder


 * 2010-2011 (last year) at Wheatland**: We had signup sheets in homeroom for a week and asked students who were interested to sign up. We ended up having approximately 130 students sign up. Then during Intensive classes on day we met in the auditorium and gave a written spelling test. There were eight 6th grade words, eight 7th grade words, and eight 8th grade words. Then we added six "challenge words". After grading the quizzes (thanks Michelle and Florence) we determined our top 26.

Next we will hand out those grade level lists of words from spellingbee.com--student materials. There are 100 words for each grade so we will give the spellers 5th-8th grade to study from. The site suggests that students master their own grade level first and then move on to other levels. We will chose from those 400 words for the school bee.


 * 2011-2012 School Year:**

Our Wheatland Spelling Bee date is Wednesday December 7th.

Here is our list for the "classroom" written test. There are 8 sixth grade words, 8 seventh grade words , and 8 eighth grade words. Then there are **6 challenge words**. We decided to administer it by having students sign up in their CA classes for three days. Then those students will be given permission to take the written test on a day next week (week of 10/24) in the auditorium.


 * 1) tourism
 * 2) peruse
 * 3) widget
 * 4) larceny
 * 5) recruit
 * 6) carpenter
 * 7) pungent
 * 8) envoy
 * 9) ecstatic
 * 10) brochure
 * 11) puree
 * 12) pursuit
 * 13) leisure
 * 14) frivolous
 * 15) desperately
 * 16) ulterior
 * 17) leniency
 * 18) siege
 * 19) feign
 * 20) whimsical
 * 21) loathe
 * 22) epilepsy
 * 23) philosophize
 * 24) debris
 * 25) **inaugurate**
 * 26) **dalliance**
 * 27) **cruciverbalist**
 * 28) **Chihuahua**
 * 29) **meandrous**
 * 30) **xerophyte**