We enjoyed a number of fun activities during Exceptional “Teenagers” Week! We invited anyone in the school to enjoy “Movies in the Media Center”. On Tuesday we screened the film “Becoming Bulletproof”, a heartwarming, funny documentary about a group of teens and young adults with and without disabilities who get together every summer to write, produce, and film a movie. On Friday, we screened the film “Darius Goes West”. Accompanied by eleven of his best friends, Darius Weems, a fifteen-year-old living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) in Athens, GA, leaves home for the first time in his life. The rowdy crew sets a course for California where they hope to convince MTV to customize Darius’s wheelchair on the hit show, Pimp My Ride.
On Wednesday, the students participated in the Special Olympics Unified Basketball Tournament at Centennial HS where all the North Fulton high schools came to compete. We brought 21 of our favorite PALS to play basketball and cheer us on! And if only you could have seen the send off! The cheerleaders, Administration, lacrosse, soccer, and football teams were outside cheering for us as we left! We played very well with several students shooting and making baskets!
On Thursday we hosted our first ever PALS Club luncheon in the JC JAVA! It was a success! We ate pizza, danced and played games.
Here are a few more pictures from two weeks ago! News to You was about Read Across America Day which falls on Dr. Suess’s birthday. In science, we did an experiment for which students had to collect and analyze data. Think “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”…. Students were given a number of colored goldfish to sort and count. We then graphed and compared our data in order to create a hypothesis.
We enjoyed our last day of bowling for the year. Meir continues to be a leader on the scoreboard. But Joey won this week! Now that the weather is getting warmer we will be going back to Newtown Park.
Mrs. Malloy's Class 