here thank you for coming out i'm so glad to be able to host this event this year so i thank you all for coming and these are our fifth graders swarm eighteen ready to go so before i do that i want to get some words appreciate having the opportunity to say some of the kids so i'm going to turn my back to the audience and speak to the kids and i wish i could speak to everybody but you're the first swarm that's up the fact that you're here is huge right huge give you know you got there weren't you know microsoft for the spellcheck and you know you guys are texting where are you with the are in the you do not spelling anything out you're probably not using proc to ation here and there and that's the world we live in but you're choosing right now to study words that come up here and try to spell things correctly because you want to and that's important because the end of the day you have to be able to do those things you know when you apply for a job when you write a note to anybody and you spell it right people may or may not notice when you start small things wrong they're going to notice and i really think that the fact that you are taking spelling seriously now is fifth graders is going to help you in spades every year down the line into your adulthood all right so give yourselves a hand for just being here and making styling for you like everybody all right so i have two jobs my first job is introduce our our pronouncers and our time keeper and our judge so we have lori graham former chairperson the belmont school committee one of our  my second job is to introduce the team so i'm going to use the team name and they're going to say their names and i give him the microphone so this is first is team two thousand and six sixteen a j see you are right give them a hand please armistice they're one of the many fantastic four teams we have we have here it's team fantastic four t all right nice job gentlemen another great name a perfectly dressed please give a hand for give bees a chance they are more nice job girls thank you team nine i i don't know i'll read the rules so i make sure because now we're in the competitive round i want to make sure there's no mistakes so if everyone just pays attention i'll read the rules real quickly so it's goes like this the producer of the pronouncer will call out a word and use it in a sentence of you will have each team have twenty seconds to quietly discuss with your team mates and everyone your team mates write down the word on your whiteboard using your best printing and i can't emphasize this enough in the biggest letters you can because it's really hard to see it all the way at the table so you're going to write them in  really big letters the time keeper will let you know when you have ten seconds left he'll announce ten seconds once time is called the pronouncer will ask you to put down your pens and hold up your boards nice and high when i say hi i mean really high really high so they can see them  the judge will review all the spelling to be sure so please keep the boards up once the boards can come down they'll say put the boards down if a word is spelled incorrectly you see there's two stingers on your table if if it's spelled incorrectly or put one stinger down if you put two stingers down then you'll be out of the your team will be out and you'll exit on this side it will give you a nice applause as you as you go out when there's two or three teams left in the round we're going to end that swarm will bring the next warm on those two or three teams remaining will be brought back for the finals after that ok i think that's it if none of the teams spell a given word correctly then no one has a penalty so all of you get it wrong the no want to put a stinger down now you have five list words and then we'll go off list when three or fewer teams are remaining standing the swarm is over all right so we're ready to go the last thing i would say that actually two pieces one please don't erase your boards until they tell you to or a sim and in the crowd it's really fun to spell along but it's really easy when they can hear you spelling so from the crowd please try your best just to spell really quietly because it's really hard thing to do are we ready to go mr man you're up all right guys have done this for a yes thing is when you get the word don't say this spelling out loud whispering to each other as a team ok because other people are listening and you never know if the next table is trying to mess you up ok mr first the first word is extraordinary principle mccallister was so extraordinary at the butler school that he got promoted to the general extraordina ten seconds remain right pens down hold those boards up nice and high so we can see them and leave them up until we let you know raise are you already for the second word oh excellent all right the next word in this questionnaire many times you are asked to fill out a questionnaire to share your opinion about something questionnaire ten seconds remain word most men the next word is bankruptcy one of our candidates has been through bankruptcy several times bankrupt ten seconds remain graham the next word is yours is beneficial if you want to win the spelling bee it is beneficial for you to study the word list beneficial and seconds remain just a quick announcement if you were participating in swarm nineteen now would be the right time to live up out in the hallway because just what will become of the next there we have one two three four teams remain so t if you're in swarm nineteen please let about the all right you already for your next word and that is exit exit is a kind of skin condition that makes you very itchy gentlemen i hope you'll come back and join us in the crowd to watch the rest of it thank you all we have four teams remaining we're going to wait till there's three or two teams remaining in this round to end this war so we have four teams remaining next word croissant i had a croissant for breakfast this morning croissant so we have three more swarms after after this one so while we're waiting i just want to thank a few people number one i want to let you know that the you spelling bee will be rebroadcast on cable so if you want to relive all the glory and the excitement it's on saturdays and sundays at noontime prime viewing time channels ninety six on comcast and thirty on horizon anywhere from those november twelfth to december fourth so we hope that if your child that was just eliminated you'll still stick around and watch excitement of the championship round and i also want to take an opportunity to remind you there is food in the cafeteria supply go get some there are games there are pizza there is a lot of pizza so please go get some of that i want to thank our investors in education while we're at it i want to thank belmont orthodontics and belmont pediatric dentistry the belmont savings bank foundation belmont smiles and pediatric dental arts bennett family i care city side subaru the dental restorative group gibson southern bees international realty light wire incorporated and the remax leading edge are beekeeper sponsor century twenty one adams lawndale especially gets our thanks tonight please inside the pizza every slice you buy brings money to the foundation for education once helps your children succeed so please grab a slice before you only thank the media so we have three more competitive rounds and then the final round so people will stick around because the words only get harder in the competition only gets more fierce and yes and to direction it has to do i think a lot of it have to do with whether you see a word welcome swarm night team so swarm nineteen once again are all fifth graders this is our second competitive round so swarm nineteen welcome here's what we're going to do i'm going to come up and i'm going to introduce your team name and i'm going to give you the microphone and you're going yeah right not another spelling bee nice work team for the pineapple coconut rory i right team for team five  me all right the rainbow gummy bears not to be confused with the spectacular disease are these spelled tackler and again bold to be a two person team number nine this to number nine the spelling star is the competitive round i'm going to read the rules to make sure i get them all right so it's important that some of you might have participated in the past in the competitive rounds a little bit different so let's make sure we're listening so here's how it's going to work to produce a pronouncer will call out  word and use it in a sentence you'll then have twenty seconds to quietly discuss with your team mates and have one of your teammates write down the word on your whiteboard using your best printing in big letters i can't emphasize enough the bigger it's written on the board the easier it is for us than the easier it is to get your points please remember to keep your eyes on your own board the time keeper let you know when you have ten seconds left once time is called the pronouncer will ask you to put down your pens and hold up your boards nice and high and when i say hi i mean really high above your head so that everyone in the whole auditorium can see it the judge will review all the spelling sibly be sure to keep the boards up until you are asked to lower them please don't lower them until then and please don't erase them until you get permission to erase if a word is spell incorrectly that team must put down one of those stingers on your table once a team is dropped to stingers they are out we will dismiss your so if you get out just wait at the table and we'll let you go after that when you get eliminated you're welcome to walk off the stage but you're also welcome to come back and watch the competition as it as it comes along when eliminated the team will leave the stage we will give you a little prize and a lot of applause if none of the team spell a given word correctly no one has a penalty meaning if every team gets it wrong you don't have to put a stinger down so it's important so we get through all of the all of the list you have five on list words and then we will start to go off list when three or fewer teams are left standing the swarm is over and those teams will advance to the championship round first word the first word harmonies laurie and i have eaten an enormous amount of pizza today enormous ten seconds remain one is correct team two is correct team three is correct watching and reading the team four is correct team five is right six is right team seven is not correct sorry  distinguished ten seconds remain the next word is kind cboe it is conceivable that we could have our first female president on tuesday night conceivable ten seconds remain seventy nine excellent job we will give them a little prize and a lot of applause on the way out so thank you all for that we are down to a couple teams with one stinger in a couple teams with two still so your next word ok just before we do this next word just a reminder that this is a really important round so when you're working together which is a great thing to work as a team please whisper ok rather than talking loudly we want to make sure that everybody does their own team work ok everybody ready and always don't think about listening to the next table because they might be spelling it wrong just focus on your own skill all right the next word is exhaustion after in seconds remain the next word is and right big enough so we can see it the next word is misspelled the team had to drop a stinger because they misspell a word that misspell ten seconds remain sorry that's not correct and sorry and that is not correct sor ten seconds remain not correct sorry team five is correct team eight is not correct sorry not going to see that i can't actually see it sorry that's not correct team eleven that is correct score you're going to come off the stage now and when you're going to sit in the crowd when it's time for the finals you'll be back there congratulations team five and at the risk of causing a complete stampede as one let you know the pizzas on sale for eight dollars for a pizza they're discounting the price it's a fire sale so please think about getting pizza also want to take the opportunity to think the foundation for belmont education the unbelievable work they do the incredible gift they give to our school incredible innovation in the classroom incredible support for professional development incredible support for guest speakers and field trips and all kinds of amazing things also want to thank our investors belmont orthodontics and belmont he acted dentistry the belmont savings bank foundation belmont smiles and pediatric dental arts bennett family i care city side subaru dental restorative group of belmont gibson southern is international realty light wire and remax leading edge an especially to the beekeeper sponsor century twenty one adams lawndale also want to let you know if you want to relive the glory of the youth spelling bee you can watch it on cable cast repeats saturdays and sundays at twelve from nov twelfth through december fourth every saturday every sunday at twelve you can have a viewing party on channel ninety six comcast  i'm waiting for swarm twenty to come on i want to thank the belmont media center for their live internet and taped broadcast i want to thank the crew chet messer james peters jeff hansel and bob liam in the back working all day and all night so thank you all all so much better do you hear the news in between there are opportunities for games out in the cafeteria there's opportunities for food pizza you might have heard that tonight we're trying to get rid of it so please support the sponsors that are out there as well  and they're out there advertising their wares and trying to get your attention so please give th if you are here at participating in swarm twenty we are waiting for two more teams in the back so if you are participating in this warm twenty fifth please line up work we got to make sure everyone's in their swarm ready to go before you bring everyone in so it looks like we're one or two team short years if you're here for teams swarm twenty and you are a team plays out to the back where the meeting with that we welcome swarm twenty swarm twenty welcome to the twentieth round of the spelling bee but the third round of the competitive round of the so a spelling bee so what i'm going to do is i'm going to introduce your team name i'm going to hand you the microphone you're just going to say your name or e nice job the word which is team three a parade team of just two the wordsmith and the last one the spell more girls so lydia excellent given all the hands it's not an easy thing to do to get up here in front of everyone and be brave enough to spell so congratulations to all of you for doing this part what we have in this round is we have a few fifth grade teams and a few sixth grade teams so the competition is increasing i'm going to read the directions i want to introduce lori graham a former our time keeper mr tom caputo member of the belmont school committee and our judge mr stephen burke profession of english at harvard university all right so i'll read the directions for everyone get some here's how this is going to work the pronouncer this man or miss graham will call out a word and use it in a sentence for all of you you will then have twenty seconds to quietly discuss with your teammates and have one of your teammates write down the word on your white using your best printing in the biggest letters possible it's really important that the printing is huge so we can see it all the way in the audience please remember to keep your eyes on your own board the time keeper mr computer will let you know when you have ten seconds remaining once time is called the pronouncers either miss graham or miss man will ask you to put down your pens and hold up your boards nice and high when we mean high we mean right above your head so everyone can see it the judge or of you all spelling somebody sure to keep your boards up until you are asked to lower them if a word is spelled incorrectly the team must put down one of your stingers on the table there if your team has dropped two spinners stingers you are out when eliminated that team will leave the stage will give you a prize and lots of applause on the way out if none of the teams spell a given word correctly then no one has a penalty so it's important remember if you're in the first teams and you get a wrong if everyone else gets it wrong then you're still in you don't have to put down a stinger so it's important to listen carefully and wait for the whole group to go you have five  words after those five lists will start to go off list when three or fewer teams are left standing this war is over and those teams will advance to the championship round the pronouncer host will then ask you to race your boards and get ready for the next word remember please she means just being here on stage in front of your families is a huge achievement achievement i'll get you another one maybe better  ok your next round their next word is ok the next word is irresistible this pile of cookies is irresistible to an man she's so hungry irresistible yes team two is not correct team three is correct team four is correct team five is did not spell a word so sorry team six is not correct sorry for team number two and team number six which is the end of their oh come on  excellent thank you all for coming out please consider joining us in the crowd to watch the rest of the competition your next word miss min symphony belmont has more children and the boston j ten second morning ten seconds remain ten seconds remain the swarm twenty one at this time please meet outside be ready for swarm twenty one coming up everyone else please stick around and watch this we have one two three four five six seven teams remaining  ten seconds remain walk on stage but stick around because you're coming back for the finals every good man please while we're waiting for our final swarm to come on i just want to ask people to remember to please support the the the groups outside please buy some pizza or giving pizzas basically away at this point eight dollars for an entire pizza you know going to get a better deal and it's really hard i know to not be spelling out loud when the kids are out there but to the extent possible and try to make sure we're not spelling out loud for them i know people are excited about it but while we're waiting for our final swarm i want to just encourage everyone even if your child gets eliminated if their team gets a limited please stick around the finals are very exciting and the words are near impossible so it's important to give them our support i want to think our investors in education that make a night like this possible belmont orthodontics belmont pediatric dentistry belmont savings bank foundation which seems to be sponsoring just about everything to do with the schools these days thank you to them belmont smiles and pediatric dental arts then that family i care city side subaru the dental restored a group of belmont gibson so these international realty light wiring corp rated and remax leading edge and rb keep keeper sponsor century twenty one adams one day which makes all th possible please give all those companies a hand nineteen or twenty or whatever it is so please give them and they've been sitting on those chairs all day long and they've been pronouncing words and they certainly deserve our respect i also want to thank  and they've been working on this for months now and so they make it look easy all the organization please give them a very loud round of applause it's amazing what they do when they have every single possible tiny little detail taken care of it's incredible so and i also want to thank the for bauman education is there really the ones that support all this that underwrite all this and the benefit whether your child wins an award tonight or doesn't win an award tonight the benefits your children from the foundation for bellman education is guaranteed to touch all these students so please put your hands you haven't yet taken advantage of the opportunities in the cafeteria please do so we're also still waiting for one team so if you are in storm twenty one and you're waiting for it to start where waiting for you so if you're in swim twenty one please head out to the hallway lined up and join the rest of that swarm as we bring our last spellers in please also remember that the spelling bee is actually going to be on t v and not just once and not just twice but pretty much for an entire month every saturday and every sunday at twelve pm prime time slot if you're in belmont channel ninety six on comcast channel thirty on  twelfth to december fourth and also accessible at the belmont media center so the belmont media center has been an incredible partner for us they have been here all day long they're going to be here long after you all leave so please thank them by watching on t v and showing them the support they war waiting i also want to announce that the annual f b i east spring dinner is going to be on march eighteenth two thousand and seventeen one of the major fundraisers actually the spelling bee and that event which of the major fundraisers to please don't miss that is sort of a new venue for us and we appreciate you coming out here i hope the hope the new venue is working as the principal generally i'm really happy to be able to sponsor it and to be able to support support it i want to thank the belmont savings bank for donating the candy for every speller so as they walk out everyone who gets off stage whether they win or not gets a little bag of candy and that was donated by belmont savings bank so thank you for doing that they're also providing the first place prizes the belmont media center as i said in also the pizza was all donated at cost by next nick's place too so if you see them in town please support them if you are a teen waiting for swarm twenty one to begin in your in the audience please head out there so we can make sure we get started as soon as possible swarm twenty one come on down i'll come on up and introduce you all appropriately named with their appropriate hats the belmont b s robert team three with their mascot in so the cookie monsters nick all right nicely done give them all a hand it is not an easy thing to do to get up here and spell in front of everyone especially be in the last war and you all have waited all day so we're going to respect your time i'm going to read out the directions before i do that i want to introduce the people that you're going to be paying attention to this round the first one is and man well read the directions so here's how it goes the pronouncer will call out a word and we'll use it in a sentence you will then i'll have twenty seconds to quietly discuss with your team mates and have one of your teammates write down the word on your whiteboard using the best printing in big letters i can't emphasize that enough the bigger the writing the easier it is for us to see we wanted to be so big that even the back of the auditorium they can see it please remember to keep your eyes on your own board the time keeper will let you know when you have only ten seconds remaining once time is called the pronouncer will ask you to put down your pens and lift up your whole your boards nice and high and when i say hi i mean way above your head high enough so everyone can see it the judge will review all the spelling to be sure the boards are up and start the sun the judge will review all the spelling be sure to keep the boards up until you are asked to lower them if a word is spelled incorrectly this is an important point if it's building correctly and everyone gets it wrong then no one has to put a spin a stinger down but if you are the only team to get it wrong on your round you actually put the bigger one stinger down once a team is dropped to stingers they're out when eliminated the team will leave the stage we'll give you a little prize on the way out and a ton of applause if you have five on list words and then we're going to start to go off list  those words get a little bit harder when three or fewer teams are left standing the storm is over those teams will advance to the championship round that championship run will be right after this one the pronouncer host will then ask you to race your boards and get ready for your next word please don't race  till they tell you to do so so three things remember number one writing nice and big number two boards nice and high and number three please don't a race until everyone asks you to are you ready now it's the last round you got have more enthusiasm than that  it's all yours the first word is temperature as we near the end of the competition and feels like the temperatures getting hotter in here ten seconds remain through the mail the post office brought you a letter correspondence ten seconds remain correct team six is correct team seven is correct team eight sorry that is actually the correct spelling of a different word but sorry team nine is correct and team ten is correct excellent job give me a hand for run man the next word the next word is exaggeration when laurie said i ate ten pizzas today that with an exaggeration i only ate five exaggeration ten seconds remain guys i just briefly want to say that you know the audience behind us your parents they don't know how to spell some of these words so we're really proud of you that you learn these words and you try to but this is a hard competition and you're all doing an amazing job up there thank all right are you ready for the next word and that is requirement it is a requirement to win this spelling bee that you study requirement ten seconds remain so we're going off list folks you guys have done so well but now we're taking words that weren't on your list ok oh wait a minute so we counted approximately approximately is the word we approximately had the right number of words but made a mistake so you still have one more on word list which is approximately proximately ten seconds remain ok now we're going off last now correct all right so you ready for this one the word chrysanthemum a chrysanthemum is a kind of flower that often blooms in the fall chrysanthemum chrysanthemum ten seconds remain parents i want you to try writing down there's more to see if you get th ten seconds remain is the word tied this sailboat to the we have team one remaining team two remaining with one stinger left team four five six and nine remaining with one one stinger left all right is everybody ready your next  anonymity when we go to vote we have anonymity in the poll nobody knows how we vote anonymity remain anonymity which would be we just move on wait and see no no no none of these are correct kaleidoscope ten seconds remain that is not correct schiemann not mine that is correct yeah right ten seconds remain