Spelling Bee

All Colorado homeschooled children are invited to join CHEC’s annual spelling bee! Winners are then eligible for the statewide Denver Post Spelling Bee, and qualifiers from that competition will compete in the National Scripps Spelling Bee. (No affiliation with CHEC or the CHEC Independent School is required to participate.)

Be creative and have fun with your preparation. Spelling study groups can be formed from your support group, with other families, or within your own family with multiple siblings. Work hard to prepare, then bring the family for competition day: it’s a positive experience for all participants and will help students prepare for the statewide bee.

Note: Younger students are welcome and encouraged to participate! But please keep in mind that all grades will be competing against each other, and the words are geared more towards 4th–8th grade. However, we have sent younger students to the state bee in the past, and starting young will give them more practice and a greater likelihood of making it to the state bee when they get older!

CHEC Colorado Homeschool Spelling Bee

WHEN? January 2026
- 8:00 am — Doors open
- 8:30 am — Written test begins
- 10:00 am — Break (grading of written tests)
- 10:30 am — Oral competition begins
- 12:30 pm — Tentative end time
WHO? Any homeschool student in the state of Colorado. The speller must not have passed beyond the 8th grade on or before February 1, 2026. The speller must not have reached his/her 15th birthday on or before August 31, 2025.
WHERE? TBD
COST? $30 per student.
REGISTRATION? Watch for registration to open!
CAN I JUST WATCH? Yes! You’re welcome to come and experience the oral competition with your children to support participants and learn if you’d like to participate in the future.

Are you looking for a resource to help your kids learn the spelling words? They can play spelling and word meaning games with all of the words from the 2026 School Spelling Bee Study List in the Word Club app for free! (CHEC is not affiliated with the Word Club)

See more photos from a previous Spelling Bee