Does your child need help with his or her spelling words? Or…think big, maybe your child can be the next Akeelah and the Bee! Well, with the help of SpellingCity.com, this can certainly be possible.

SpellingCity.com is a FREE online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun! And after taking the online spelling test, students can print out a report, retake the entire test, or get tested only on spelling words they got wrong.

Parents, check it out! SpellingCity.com has:

• Over 37,000 spelling words and eight spelling games!

• A REAL person who says each word and sentence

• Thousands of free spelling lists. Or save your own!

These educational games help to build spelling and vocabulary skills. Children can play the games with their own lists or find other people's lists to use.  The games include:

HangMouse: A fun version of Hangman. With each incorrect guess the cat gets closer to being awake. Try to guess the word before the cat completely wakes up. You can use the lists provided or play HangMouse with your own list of words.

Word Search: This game will scramble your words into a matrix. The object is to locate and outline all of the words within the matrix.

Unscramble: The object of this game is to put the word back together from a scrambled set of letters.

Audio Word Match: The object is to pair cards based on the words and sounds.

Which Word? With this game, find which word correctly completes the sentence.

Missing Letter: With this, kids will need to find the missing letter.

Crossword: A traditional crossword game using the words from your list.

Unscramble Sentence: The object of this game is to place the words in the correct order to form the complete sentence.

So as you can see, there are numerous games to play and your child will not grow bored.  My guess is that he or she will want to play game after game. I'm sure you will agree that this is a terrific way to tackle that spelling list.

Have fun!

The Bing Note Team!