The 2019 Spelling Bee "Meet Your Mentor" Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, 2/20, has been cancelled due to weather related building closure at JBHS. Further details regarding alternate arrangements to connect spellers with mentors will be forthcoming shortly. 

Attention Spelling Bee Mentors:

The 13th annual BGCRE Spelling Bee is fast approaching!

This event is planned, organized and run by our Club’s Youth Leadership Program for High School Students called Keystone Club.

Open to 3rd and 4th graders in Redding and Easton.

High school students will Mentor (and have fun with) spellers to help them prepare.

Date of the Bee: Saturday, April 6

3rd Grade: 10:00 am

4th Grade: 12:00 noon

Location: JBHS Auditorium

Click here to Register

Please be sure to choose the correct registration form for your child (3rd or 4th grade) or Mentor

Cost to Register: $15

There will be a "Meet your Mentor" meeting at the JBHS Auditorium on Wednesday, February 20th -

Mentors please arrive no later than 4:30pm

Spellers please arrive no later than 5:00pm

Due to the popularity of the Spelling Bee registration is limited to 30 spellers for each grade so SIGNUP NOW!

Questions or concerns?

Contact Student Leaders Kayleigh Riccio and McKenna Kaye at

Now that our Mentors have been matched with their Spellers we wanted to provide you with some helpful ideas and suggestions for making practice fun.  We have also added the Grade Level Bee Word Lists,  Extra Challenge Word Lists and Spelling Bee Rules for your convenience.  Click on the links below to be taken to those pages:

Spelling Bee Rules

Ideas for Practicing Spelling Words

Spice Up Your Spelling Words

3rd Grade Spelling List

4th Grade Spelling List

Would you like to support the Spelling Bee by making a donation?  Just click on this link for our Spelling Bee Donor form: 

Supporter Letter

Spelling Bee Donor Form

If you have any questions please contact