Remember how much you enjoyed cosmic bowling at Baden bowl? Well, PE teacher Miss Susan Pilarski recently recreated that awesome black-lit experience in the middle school gym.
Miss P. has been teaching a PE class that is tailored towards some students to match their unique needs.
The class is referred to as Adaptive Gym, and it just completed its first nine weeks as an official class. The class is currently a pilot program so that it can be here next year.
The skills that are worked on consist of kicking, throwing, gripping, and sequences.
There are different games that are either pre-existing or made up that are modified to suit certain students’ needs that get them a better quality of physical education. An example of this would be playing volleyball with a balloon instead of a normal volleyball.
“The goal [of the course] is so that students can get a better quality of physical education that tailors to them. I also have buddies that help the students and assist them,” said Miss Pilarski.
At the end of the third nine weeks Miss Pilarski set up cosmic bowling for the class as a way to celebrate the first full quarter of the class.
The makeshift bowling alley was such a hit that some teachers even stopped by after school to check it out.
So far, students have gotten to experience a wide range of games and activities including archery, tennis, volleyball, bowling, and air hockey.