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County spelling bee
scheduled Saturday
29 students will match wits, words
harder and the kids are
getting smarter,” she
said.
Jenkins said the top
three finishers Saturday
will advance to the
District 2 competition
Feb. 23 in Marietta,
where they will face the
top spellers from
Cherokee, Cobb,
Dawson, Lumpkin,
Towns, Pickens, Union,
White county schools, as
well as the Marietta city
system.
The winners there will
attend the state bee
March 15 at Georgia
State University, with a
chance to head to
Washington, D.C., for
the Scripps National
Spelling Bee in May.
Tennies said she
“would not be surprised”
if Vallier were to advance
that far. “She just has the
dedication to it and I see
that she’s going to be the
name that’s bandied
around for the next four
years in spelling, because
she’ll be competing at
the middle school level
as well.”
Jenkins would like to
see a local student make
it to the national bee, but
is focusing on Saturday.
The bee’s caller will
again be Cumming-
Forsyth County Chamber
of Commerce President
James McCoy, who
Jenkins said did a great
job last year.
Judges also will be the
same: Georgia
Association of Educators
By Jennifer Sami
jsami@forsythnews.com
Julia Vallier is ready to
defend her crown
Saturday.
The Chestatee
Elementary School stu
dent won last year’s
Georgia Association of
Educators Spelling Bee as
a fourth-grader and the
youngest speller in a
competition that lasted
nine rounds.
Chestatee Principal
Polly Tennies said
Vallier’s been preparing
all school year for the
2013 bee, which is set
for 10 a.m. at North
Forsyth High School’s
performing arts auditori
um.
“She’s been studying
challenge words and she
even has an app on her
(Pad that she’s been
using,” Tennies said.
“She’s very dedicated to
the competition.
“We’re very proud of
her and we can’t wait to
see how well she does on
Saturday, because I feel
like she’s even more pre
pared than she was last
year. She’s going to be a
force.”
Vallier will try to hold
off 28 fourth- through
eighth-graders who won
their respective school’s
spelling bees.
Despite her victory last
year, county bee organiz
er Judi Jenkins said
Vallier’s not necessarily
a shoe-in for the prize.
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Chestatee Elementary School student Julia Vallier, winner of the 2012 Georgia
Association of Educators Spelling Bee will be competing again this year.
If you're going
Forsyth County's
Georgia Association of
Educators Spelling Bee
is set for 10 a.m.
Saturday at North
Forsyth High School's
performing arts audito
rium.The event is free
and open to the public.
representative Greg Orr;
Linda Lang, a member of
the Forsyth County
Retired Educators
Association; and John
Hall, publisher of the
Forsyth County News.
Every student has their
own way of preparing for
the bee, Jenkins said, and
several also use a
resource provide by
Scripps.
“They give you access
online to a bunch of
words to study. Not that
those are the words used,
but they could be and
some of them are really
hard,” Jenkins said.
One trait all the sys
tem’s top spellers share
is their passion for read
ing, according to Jenkins.
“Good spellers are the
good readers,” she said.
“Every time you talk to
the mom of a county
winner or a school win
ner, they say their kids
read all the time.
“I think that’s the key
to it. You can spell-check
on the computer, but you
can look back and find
that good spellers are all
good readers.”
In Vallier’s case,
Top spellers A
The following students af® scheduled to participate in Forsyth County’s
Georgia Association of Educators Spelling Bee on Saturday. Each won
the bee at their individual schools.
Elementary
* Big Creek — Abhinav lyer
* Brookwood — Tyler Xu
« Chattahoochee — Tommy
Craddock
» Chestatee — Julia Vallier
« Coal Mountain — Sammy Gore
¢ Cumming — Amy Anderson
¢ Daves Creek — Akshita Sharma
¢ Haw Creek — Ashriitha
Shanmugam
* Johns Creek — Julia Chang
o Kelly Mill — Sujai Reddy
* Mashburn — Morgan Parsley
* Matt — Jacob Hiltzheimer
* Midway — Morell Kenmoe
¢ Sawnee — Brittany Caruso
o Settles Bridge — Cole Donovan
¢ Sharon — Jessica Terry
Tennies said, writing is
also a factor.
“She’s an exceptional
writer. So if you’re a fan
tastic speller, that’s a tal
early,” he said.
But, like Ward,
Palmer said it’s not too
late if you haven’t got
ten a flu shot, though
you probably shouldn’t
delay.
“I know that all of our
counties are getting
toward the end of their
supply,” he said. “They
still have some vaccine
remaining and so if any
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a skill we want in the
future. It may be old
fashioned, buggit will
never go out o;‘le.”
ent for sure, but [it’s
great] to be able to take
that as well and put it
into other places,”
Tennies said.
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because it would protect
them from now until the
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