Battle of the Brains

Faye was once again a candidate for the Battle of the Brains (Spelling) in her school for the 3rd Quarter. (Sorry the photo here is not so clear). Last year she made it to the Championship Round (please read my previous entry on this).

For this year, she made it again to the Championship Round! Hurray! because she won the Quarterly Round last week. I had to be late in going to work on that day so that I can watch and support her, but it was all worth it.

There's a problem with Spelling Contests that I noticed -- that is, if the teacher's diction and pronunciation are not so clear, the kids will get confused. For the Easy Round, I, myself didn't also hear the word correctly, what I heard was "Lat", even if the quiz master defined the word as Youth (which she pronounced as Yoot -- my goodness!), it got me more confused. It was only when she used the word in a sentence did I get the word correctly --- it was LAD. But Faye didn't get it. She wrote down LAT. Oh no! it was the first word and she got it wrong already. I really got nervous! --- a stage Mom --- just let me be, please :-). However, she got the rest of the words correctly. There were 7 words for each round, so, there were a total of 21 words for the Easy, Average and Difficult Round.

For the Easy Round, the words were: lad, coconut, vehicle, nervous, plaza, post, reunion. She got 6 points for this.

For the Average Round, the words were: array, survival, landmark, launch, automatic, cautious, authentic. She got the perfect score of 14 points for this.

For the Difficult Round, the words were: diesel, reindeer, committee, applause, squad, monstrous, robbery. She got 2 mistakes here (committee -- she missed one m; monstrous -- she wrote monsterous), so she got 15 points.

I was praying all throughout the contest -- to Mama Mary and Faye's guardian angel, and since I didn't know the name of her guardian angel, I borrowed my friend's guardian angel whose name is Ernest (see related post here). I wasn't looking at the scores of the other contestants, and although she was the only who got a perfect score in the average round, I really didn't want to expect too much, and just prayed for every word that was given by the quiz master. And again, it was all worth it, because she got 35 points and she WON!!! Thanks God, and thank you Mama Mary and Ernest!

For the Championship Round, that will be another post -- it's scheduled sometime in March, and hopefully, this time, she'll win.