It was the last week of the school year. Kim's third grade class had done very well all year learning their spelling words. Their teacher often praised them for how well they did on their assignments. Kim had a little trouble but received the tutoring she needed. Their teacher rewarded the class by them by letting them have a spelling bee.

There were twenty students in the class. They started out with easy words like pear, park, frisbee, cookie. In the second round students received medium words like elephant, apology, forgiveness, and unconditional. In the last round there were six students left. Kim was one of them. These students received difficult words to spell like laboratory, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, conscientious, mischievous, fuchsia, beguile, egregious, necessary, and narcissistic. Kim won the spelling bee. Her word was chihuahua. Their teacher had promised to give each of the students a cupcake for participating in the spelling bee. Each of them received a cherry or chocolate cupcake with a cherry on top.