Jacob"s spelling bee

We have decided that Jacob is such a smarty pants. Today at school Jacob had a spelling bee with all of the 2nd graders at his school. Jacob a week or 2 before was given a list of words to study. Jacob worked pretty hard on the words with his dad to learn them. The day of the spelling bee they divided the kids into 2 groups. The higher and lower spellers. The lower spellers competed in a the spelling bee and then the higher spellers competed in the afternoon. The students were all given numbers and then one at a time stood up and was given a word. It was like a regular spelling bee. If they got it wrong then they would hear the bell and then they were out. We were not going to go to this but in the morning decided to go. I called Enoch too and asked him to come because I thought it would be fun for Jacob to have his mom and dad there watching. I was so glad that I made that decision to go. I would have been so sad if I hadn't of gone. Jacob made it through the first round where about 10 kids were left. Jacob then made it all the way to the last 3. It was Jacob with a boy and a girl. The boy ended up spelling one of his words wrong and then it was against Jacob. The girl and Jacob kept going back and forth. Jacob would get a word right and then the girl would. Jacob would get a word wrong and then the girl would as well. They did this for about 10 words or more. It was so crazy. At one point the kids from their classes in the audience kept saying just get a word wrong Jacob so we can be done. It was so funny. Jacob during it too would have ht biggest grin like he was ready to laugh and he would have to grab his mouth to stop from smiling. He was so fun to watch. Well at the end of it Jacob got his word right and the girl got her word wrong. It was so nerve racking. I was freaking out inside. I was so dang proud of Jacob. I still can't believe we almost missed it. Jacob got a medal and a trophy for winning the spelling bee. Jacob won by spelling the word 'recognizing'. The hard thing was after kids who didn't win cried because they had missed their words. It made me sad because here was my boy who won and then others who were sad. I guess that's life. It made me happy too that Jacob did really well at it because he isn't athletic like a lot of the kids at school so it was nice to have him be good at it. Jacob was such a good winner. He went and shook hands with the other 2 he competed with and told them that they did really well. He was so sweet and humble about winning.

Here is a list of the some of the words from the spelling bee (how many of you could have spelled them?)
centimeter
challenge
compare
comprehension
contrast
define
demonstrate
describe
develop
differentiate
distances
estimate
evaluate
expert
expository
forces
freezes
friction
fulcrum
gases
glossary
gravity
identity
inclined
inferences
informational
investigate
kilometer
length
liquids
magnetism
measure
model
motion
Newton
observe
predict
recognizing
repel
rough
smooth
surface
technology
temperature
understanding