The day before our three day weekend in February, (Lincolin's Day weekend) fourteen of our upper grade stduents (4th, 5th, and 6th grade students) competed in Garden Park Elementary School's annual Spelling Bee.   The top fourth graders, top five fifth graders, and the top sixth graders sat for twenty-five minutes listening, pronouncing, and spelling challenging words that put their brains to the test. 

This year our top speller was a sixth grade student and our runner up was also a sixth grade student.  Amanda, our top speller, represented Garden Park Elementary School at the District Spelling Bee which took place on the 28th of March.  Our second place speller was Jennifer.   Miss Amanda did an excellent job at the District Spelling Bee.  We are proud of her efforts.

To show our appreciation, these two sutdents earned a breakfast at Coco's on the day of the district competition, the winner will have her name etched on our school perpetual Spelling Bee placque, and our first and second place students will receive a personalized Spelling Bee placque, compliments of Garden Park's PTA.  The perpetual placque can be seen at any time in our multipurpose room.

All of our Garden Park students deserve an enormous round of applause for their effort and determination to do their best.  We were honored to have each of these student represent Garden Park Elementary School.