BEHS Spanish students in world test

Eight students in Dan Bennett’s Spanish 5 class at Bonney Eagle High School are preparing to compete against students from approximately 50 high schools from around the world in a European geography contest.

High school students from Canada, Spain, Nepal, Romania, Norway, Japan, and many other countries, will be competing online to see who can correctly identify all of the European countries on a blank map along with their capitals and do it in the fastest time. The student/school who does so, will be recognized with a certificate and a small monetary prize. To add to the challenge, Bennett’s students will be competing in Spanish.

In preparation, the students are learning the names of all European countries and capitals in Spanish, as well as each country’s nationality.

tMundo is a multilingual online game to practice geographical names of countries, capitals and nationality adjectives in five languages – English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. The culminating activity is a supervised session online in which the students have to complete the map of Europe in a foreign language of their choice within 20 minutes, individually and with no help. Results are automatically stored in a database.

Bennett said that although the students have a lot of studying to do before the April 27 deadline, he is confident they can and will rise to the challenge. He said, “I have no doubt that my students will not only learn European geography thoroughly and do so in the Spanish language, but will go on to distinguish themselves in this global competition.”

The students participating are Sarah Carter, Allie Conn, Amber Cronin, Andrew LeProhon, Nicole Libbey, Kevin Stack, Jen Weeman and Kaitlin Williams.

The competition is an annual event and originates in Madrid, Spain. More information is available at www.tmundo.com

BEHS benefit talent show Friday

The Bonny Eagle High School Thespian Society, a dramatics honor society, is sponsoring a benefit talent show Friday evening, April 13, at 7p.m. in the school’s auditorium.

The show will benefit the family of Robert Maxwell, a social studies and global village teacher from Bonny Eagle High School who recently died of cancer.

Student talent from many of the schools in SAD 6 will be featured and a wide variety of acts include song, dance, comedy and bands.

Tickets are $5 and $3 for students and will be sold at the door. Bonny Eagle High School is at 700 Saco Road, Standish.

For more information, contact Rick Osann, theater director Bonny Eagle High School at 929-3840 or [email protected].

Cutline (Spanish) – Studying Spanish on-line are Bonny Eagle High School students from left in the front row are Amber Cronin, Kevin Stack and Jen Weeman. Back Row,Allie Conn, Sarah Carter, Andrew LeProhon, and Nicole Libbey. Kaitlin Williams is not in the photo