First/second grade winners at 34th annual Kiwanis / Katey Fagan Spelling Bee

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 05/05/2018 - 5:43pm

The Kiwanis Club of Lake Tahoe held their 34th annual Spelling Bee on Thursday, with students from the four South Lake Tahoe elementary schools taking part: Tahoe Valley, Sierra House, Bijou and Lake Tahoe Environmental Magnet.

The students from the Magnet School won first place in the 1st/2ndh grade division at the bee which is now named the Katey Fagan Spelling Bee in honor of a local Kiwanian who died in 2017.

Bijou won 3rd/4th grades and the Magnet School also won grade 5.

Now all of the Lake Tahoe Unified School District schools go to the county-wide spelling bee on Friday, May 11 in Shingle Springs.

The six students from each school were guided through the five rounds of competition. There are five words per round and each student is given points for words spelled correctly, with a possible 25 points per student.

Students earn points for all correctly spelling words.