Fifth Grade Spelling Bee

Waynesville Kiwanis Club hosts a Fifth Grade County-Wide “No Sweat” Spelling Bee modeled after our Adult Spelling Bee. This is a team competition among the 5th grade classes in the Haywood County Public Schools.  Trophies are awarded that night.  Each classroom enters a team of 3 spellers and an alternate.  It is a written competition; all teams are spelling the same words.  For 3 rounds of increasing difficulty missed words may be “bought back” with play money.  If more than 1 team is still playing after the 3rd round, a tie-breaker round follows. Trophies, an ice-cream social, $150 for supplies go to the winning class, and the honor of holding the banner at the beginning of the town’s Christmas Parade.