 Did you see the thing on the news about the winner of the spelling bee? That kid's amazing. I know. How the heck can she spell those words? I don't even know what some of them mean. Who cares? What's the point of learning to spell those words? I've got better things to do. I only study spelling right before a test anyway. I guess they're like the way you can work some of them out by using common parts of words that you've heard before. No, you can't just work it out if you're good at spelling or you're not. It's just the way it is. Anyway, you don't need to know how to spell because spell check or Siri can just do it for you. Of course you need to know how to spell. Every day we need to decode words. Plus, lots of different languages are coming into our language now. If you just work it out a bit every day, you can definitely get better at spelling. I'm not that good at spelling, but I was able to work out the meaning of something new yesterday. I'm getting better, and I think it's making more sense since I've been looking at a few new words each day. Like how? Well, one of the words on spelling B was circumfix. I thought it was related to some other words I knew, like suffix and prefix. I also knew that circumnavigate means to go or travel around, so I figured circumfix was an affix on the end of each word. Turns out I was right, and an infix is an affix inside a word just like I worked out. You're such a show-off. No one likes a smarty pants. I'm too busy with gymnastics to look at this stuff. It's not my fault. Dad wants me to go to the Olympics, so that's what's important in our family. He's not showing off. He just wants to tell you about what he learned. Don't you find it interesting? Well, sort of. I don't know. I just don't see myself as that type of person. Maybe we should do something like this for our group media arts project. What if we made an advertisement for a school spelling B? Michael knows how to work out the words. I've made a video before, and you have great art skills, Rachel. You could design a storyboard. I think we could come up with a great product. I love it. We're totally gonna nail this. Can we get together at lunch to start planning? I hate when Mr. Johnson gives us these silly projects. Why can't we just have a test or something? Okay, I'll do it. But we better get an A or my mom won't let me go to Bali for my birthday.