Spelling Bee

Before Christmas break, Noah had a class spelling bee and was in the top 3 in his class so he got to go to the school spelling bee which was last Friday. He had a list of about 275 words to learn. Some of them he already knew. There were some pretty tough words on there, some that I had never heard of like, bibliothecarial???Who has heard of that or knows what that means? I made flash cards for him and we tried to study a little each night. He was pretty nervous but I told him I knew he would be okay. He knew most of the words on the list pretty well and there were a couple he still struggled with. In the first round, he got "warrior". As soon as I heard them say that I knew he had it made...then I heard him say "w-a-i"...I was like what? He got out in the first round. Warrior wasn't a word we studied. It was one of the easier words so we didn't really practice it. He felt bad and I think he was caught off guard that he got that word. I told him not to feel bad and to be proud that he even got to go to the school spelling bee. I'm so proud that he even made it as far as he did. Maybe he'll have better luck next year.