With Weston's memorial fund we wanted to do something that connected us to Weston, that would encourage education, and that would give back to the community. We know that Weston would have been in the Spelling Bees, just like his brothers. Weston got 100% on all his spelling tests. We decided to set up a Weston Wilkins Spelling Bee award with Weston's memorial fund. We gave $25 to First place, $15 to Second Place and $10 to Third Place.
This Letter was sent out to each of the top six spellers in each grade
We made cash envelopes for each of the top three winners.
First Grade winners 
Second Grade Winners
Third Grade Winners
Fourth Grade Winners 
Fifth Grade and Sixth Grade Winners. Caiden won 1st place in the Sixth Grade. It was extra special that he won one of the awards. Colton was so disappointed, he just missed the spelling bee by one place.....Hopefully next year! The fifth and sixth grade teachers usually either didn't do the spelling bee or just did a small one. This year they made a big deal of it and held it in the gym with judges :)
This was such a rewarding thing to do. The kids who won were so excited. Many of them came up to me afterwards and thanked me waving their money envelopes. We hope this encourages even more to work hard at it next year.
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