Entz Spelling Bee Winner

McKenna represented her sixth grade classroom again in the school spelling Bee for 4th-6th graders. There were 18 children in the Bee.

Her words for each round:

1. Dollar
2. Simile
3. Strict
4. Zero
5. Menu
6. Easel
7. Bundle
8. Dune
9. Keen
10. Daily
11. Tamale
12. Toucan (4 kids left)
13. Polygon (McKenna and Dean left)
14. Panic
15. Idiom
16. Balcony, at this one McKenna looks at me and smiles broadly because she missed it last year so we had practiced it a bunch. The pronunciation last year kind of tripper her up, it sounded like "bellcony" so this year she was right on that.
17. Ravioli, Dean misses Macaroni on this round and McKenna has to get the next two correct to win
18. Bandit
19. Burrito

She didn't miss a single word and won Dean by correctly spelling the last two words. She goes to District sometime in the next little bit.

Harry Potter Six Party of the Decade

McKenna has spent the last year planning a small HP 6 opening night party. She practically had a heart attack when they moved it back from opening in November to this summer. I think she takes after her dad who loves to plan trips and parties, ironically he's a project manager but doesn't love that kind of planning that much anymore. Anyhow, planning parties is awesome and McKenna blew my mind with all the detail she put into her party, she didn't miss a beat.

Welcome to Hogwarts Jones Campus

Gimme my sorting hat back you muggle

The chef for the night

Potions

The Sorting Hat Ceremony, complete with fake-o sorting hat voice by Dad

Potions Class

Honeydukes Candy Store

McKenna made all of the stickers, posters, and bags etc for this party, some Berti Botts Beans above

The Knight Bus

Making some pygmy puffs

Finally, in the theater, we got the bar row, all that waiting paid off and nobody fell asleep during the movie