In a few weeks the Spelling Bee contest will be held at Ameyali School. It is a wonderful event that encourages healthy competition, stimulates memory, expands vocabulary and supports English language learning in a interactive and fun way.
What is the Spelling Bee?
It is a competition, in which, the contestants must spell correctly, series of words in English. The word "bee" has double connotation: although it can refer to the flying insect, it also means "meeting" or "competition."
The contest originates in the United States and the first edition was held in 1925. Its objective is to support language learning, based on the well-known Blue backed Spellers books, written by Noah Webster, published in 1786.
These books have been a fundamental pillar in the teaching of the language in the schools of North America and, at present, they have been taken up in schools of different parts of the world. They are named that way, because of their characteristic blue cover.
When working as a teacher, Noah Webster found that American education should be updated and children should learn from American books, since, at that time - 18th century - books generally came from England.
This is how Webster took the initiative and began writing his series of textbooks A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, which sought to modify the way of teaching English to American children of his time. Over the decades, the name of the first volume of the series changed to The American Spelling Book.
Throughout his life, Webster kept writing books that supported not only education but could also help create a new identity in his country.
At Ameyali School we return to the momentum, the desire to learn and teach from Noah Webster, through pedagogical strategies that stimulate student learning, in a fun, transversal and integral way. Therefore, we promote the Spelling Bee contest so that children know different ways of learning the English language and develop their communication skills.
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