Heaven Miles, Snyder’s district spelling bee champion, will compete at the 66th annual regional spelling bee at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Saturday.
Miles, a sixth grade student at Snyder Junior High School, said she is excited about Saturday.
“I feel if I try my best and study, study, study, I will at least get second place but hopefully first,” she said. “It’s been good, learning the language origins of the words and the different ways to spell them. My mom is helping me.”
Miles said knowing where a word originated can help with spelling
“(At competition), you can ask for the language of origin because there are different tricks to spelling for different origins. I think the hardest thing will be the Japanese words of origin,” she said.
Miles has been in contact with Snyder High School sophomore Rena Morrell, who competed in the national spelling bee in 2014.
Miles met her during the district spelling bee Feb. 8.
“We’ve texted by phone and we’ve gone over the French words whenever I needed help with them,” Miles said.
If she wins in Lubbock, Miles will qualify to compete in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. later this year.
“I’ve looked into it and the Scripps, they have a lot of different contests to go to Washington and my mom said although I’m studying, I should still, just in case, just for the fun of it, do the contests,” Miles said. “It’s about inspiring other children to love reading.”Heaven Miles, Snyder’s district spelling bee champion, will compete at the 66th annual regional spelling bee at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Saturday.
Miles, a sixth grade student at Snyder Junior High School, said she is excited about Saturday.
“I feel if I try my best and study, study, study, I will at least get second place but hopefully first,” she said. “It’s been good, learning the language origins of the words and the different ways to spell them. My mom is helping me.”
Miles said knowing where a word originated can help with spelling
“(At competition), you can ask for the language of origin because there are different tricks to spelling for different origins. I think the hardest thing will be the Japanese words of origin,” she said.
Miles has been in contact with Snyder High School sophomore Rena Morrell, who competed in the national spelling bee in 2014.
Miles met her during the district spelling bee Feb. 8.
“We’ve texted by phone and we’ve gone over the French words whenever I needed help with them,” Miles said.
If she wins in Lubbock, Miles will qualify to compete in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. later this year.
“I’ve looked into it and the Scripps, they have a lot of different contests to go to Washington and my mom said although I’m studying, I should still, just in case, just for the fun of it, do the contests,” Miles said. “It’s about inspiring other children to love reading.”