2025 Farmland Spelling Bee
DATES UPDATED 1/9/25 DUE TO WEATHER CLOSURES:
The Farmland PTA-sponsored Spelling Bee is back and scheduled for Wednesday, February 5, 2025!!
This program is an academic competition that showcases the spelling skills of Farmland students in grades 3, 4, and 5. The Farmland Spelling Bee champion will advance to compete in the Montgomery County Regional Spelling Bee on Thursday, March 6, 2025. This annual contest is completely voluntary and free of charge.
In order to qualify for competition, students in grades 3, 4, and 5 must take and pass a written spelling test in advance, according to the following pretest schedule (location TBD):
NOTE: NEW PRETEST DATES DUE TO SNOW CLOSURE:
Please find below the links to the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee Word Lists (all are copyrighted property of the NSB and may not be re-posted outside of our PTA website). Definitions and parts of speech are only provided to assist in the learning process and will not be tested.
3rd Graders, please click here to access your study guide. The guide is made up of two lists. The first list is 3rd grade words, and the second list is 4th grade words for a challenge. The pretest will consist of 20 words taken from the 3rd grade list and 20 words taken from the 4th grade list for a total of 40 words.
4th Graders, please click here to access your study guide. The guide is made up of two lists. The first list is 4th grade words, and the second list is 5th grade words for a challenge. The pretest will consist of 20 words taken from the 4th grade list and 20 words taken from the 5th grade list for a total of 40 words.
5th Graders, please click here to access your study guide. The guide is made up of two lists. The first list is 5th grade words, and the second list is 6th grade words for a challenge. The pretest will consist of 20 words taken from the 5th grade list and 20 words taken from the 6th grade list for a total of 40 words.
Parents will receive an email by Sunday, January 19th informing them if their student has qualified for the schoolwide Spelling Bee. The students who qualify, and only those students, will receive the full 450-word School Spelling Bee Study List to use to prepare for the Bee. Graded pretests will be returned to students by their teachers during the week of January 20th.
If you are unable to access a printer and would like a hard copy of any spelling list, if you have any questions, or if you are interested in volunteering for the Spelling Bee, please contact farmlandPTAsecretary@gmail.com
Happy Studying!!