{"id":3177,"date":"2016-03-01T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:33:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:33:38","slug":"kraemers-samuel-littrell-wins-oc-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3177","title":{"rendered":"Kraemer&#8217;s Samuel Littrell wins OC Spelling Bee, Golden students perform well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in three years, Samuel Littrell from Kraemer Middle School is the Orange County Spelling Bee champ! Samuel, who also won at the county level in 2014, bested 43 other top spellers in grades six, seven and eight in the annual contest sponsored by the Orange County Register at the Orange County Department of Education&#8217;s main campus\u00a0on Saturday, Feb. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ocde.us\/kraemer-middle-school-student-wins-oc-spelling-bee-for-second-time-in-three-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/spelling-706546-littrell-year.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the articles, and congratulate Samuel when you see him. Go Cubs!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Golden shines at Spelling Bee<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was also a great day for Golden Elementary School at the annual Orange County Spelling Bee. Sixth grader Natalie Williams battled 11 rounds to win third place overall among sixth through eighth graders in Orange County. After correctly spelling words like &#8220;zillionaire&#8221; and &#8220;pfeffernusse,&#8221; she was out-spelled by Golden alumnus and current Kraemer student Samuel Littrell. Both Natalie and Samuel are\u00a0coached by sixth grade gifted and talented education (GATE) teacher Mrs. Kristi Cooan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/golden-spelling-bee-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3252\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3252\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/golden-spelling-bee-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"golden-spelling-bee-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/golden-spelling-bee-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/golden-spelling-bee-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/golden-spelling-bee-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3253\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3253\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/golden-spelling-bee-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"golden-spelling-bee-2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/golden-spelling-bee-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/golden-spelling-bee-2.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in three years, Samuel Littrell from Kraemer Middle School is the Orange County Spelling Bee champ! Samuel, who also won at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168,1178,15],"tags":[223,120],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","category-middle-school","category-school-district","tag-golden-elementary-school","tag-kraemer-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}