I will ask an ice breaker question of the students and encourage them to interact with me and other students for a few minutes at the start of each class.
Then, for each class, I will follow this format as we learn Level One Bee (beginning) words.
1. Introduce my background and experience as a county spelling bee coordinator associated with the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
2. Explain what spelling bees are all about and how students might consider competing in one in their local communities.
3. Learn to spell 10 words commonly found on spelling bee competition lists. We will practice 10 new words every class. We will learn the definitions of these words along with their country of origin, part of speech, as well as the etymology of the words. Words will come from school study lists provided by the Scripps National Spelling Bee program and will get harder as the class progresses.
4. Practice the spelling words in creative ways. (See below for examples.)
5. Spelling bee each class to work on words.
6. Wrap up and question and answer session.

Here are the activities I have planned for the first 10 classes and I will update the classroom page with more activities as we go along.
Class #1:  Write this week's spelling words in shaving cream. This week's words are punting, crowd, secret, fumble, pond, health, pardon, shake, kiddo, and proof.
Class #2:  Create your own crossword puzzle with this week's spelling words. This week's words are gorp, town, bingo, clever, inside, reply, frozen, special, film, and results.
Class #3:  Use magnetic letters, alphabet blocks, scrabble pieces or a combination of all three to spell out this week's spelling words. This week's words are soda, seal, twirled, disembark, admit, grown-ups, pieces, brass, onshore, and stunts.
Class #4:  Memory game using flash cards. (I will supply the "cards" on our classroom site and students will need to print them off and cut them into flash cards.) We will play the memory game using this week's spelling words. This week's words are deny, jolly, powder, earthquake, walnut, sawdust, flustered, barber, chimes, and cabin.
Class #5:  Play the Floyd Danger Spelling Quest online game using the built-in spelling words. No new words this week.
Class #6:  Write a story using each of this week's spelling word. This week's words are faint, manger, peppermint, broth, ash, flame, grits, cliff, hem, and candles.
Class #7:  Act out this week's spelling words. This week's words are brim, plot, desk, bobcat, polo, roller, stark, drum, snarl, and argue.
Class #8:  Make up a song using this week's spelling words. This week's words are loppers, petal, giant, sniffle, mouth, filters, cone, never, silly, and Monday.
Class #9:   Use a fly swatter to swat the words as they spell this week's words. The words will be provided on a classroom site and students will need to print them off on note cards or pieces of construction paper. After class and with parents' permission, I will encourage the students to tape up this week's list throughout their homes and swat the words each time they spell the word correctly. This week's words are grub, hook, number, cooking, amazed, collect, local, proper, basement, and ripple.
Class #10: A class spelling bee using all of the words we have learned so far!