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Community Service - A Gaga Pit!
The Unit Community Service provides Unit students (grades 7-8) with opportunities to assist their school community, including helping younger students with academic subjects, supporting gym, music, art, and shop classes, and performing organizational tasks like sorting materials and assisting with mailings. They've also contributed to library tasks and helped with building maintenance and clean-up efforts. It’s an important program that provides Unit students an opportunity to show leadership and give back.
This fall, nine Unit students with guidance from Junior and Rob, designed and constructed a portable Gaga Pit. Rowan, Lucian, Easton, Ronia, Dylan, Nate, Malcolm, James, and Miles pitched in to cut, sand, paint and assemble 8 plywood panels. The finished project can be assembled easily in minutes and sits on a lumber cart.
This fall, nine Unit students with guidance from Junior and Rob, designed and constructed a portable Gaga Pit. Rowan, Lucian, Easton, Ronia, Dylan, Nate, Malcolm, James, and Miles pitched in to cut, sand, paint and assemble 8 plywood panels. The finished project can be assembled easily in minutes and sits on a lumber cart.
The Unit Community Service provides Unit students (grades 7-8) with opportunities to assist their school community, including helping younger students with academic subjects, supporting gym, music, art, and shop classes, and performing organizational tasks like sorting materials and assisting with mailings. They've also contributed to library tasks and helped with building maintenance and clean-up efforts. It’s an important program that provides Unit students an opportunity to show leadership and give back.
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This fall, nine Unit students with guidance from Junior and Rob, designed and constructed a portable Gaga Pit. Rowan, Lucian, Easton, Ronia, Dylan, Nate, Malcolm, James, and Miles pitched in to cut, sand, paint and assemble 8 plywood panels. The finished project can be assembled easily in minutes and sits on a lumber cart.
If you’re unfamiliar, Gaga is a fast paced, high energy sport played in an octagonal pit. It's a gentler version of dodgeball, played with a soft foam ball, and combines the skills of dodging, striking, running, and jumping, while trying to hit opponents with a ball below the knees. Players need to keep moving to avoid getting hit by the ball. Fun and easy, yet everyone gets a serious workout (for more info on Gaga, click here).
Gaga became a hit with the 5th-8th grade students in the Spring of 2021 during the first school year of the Covid-19 pandemic when they temporarily were located at “Fayerweather West” at the Beth El Temple Center. The Temple’s permanent Gaga Pit was a hit and students played daily.
Our students, clever and resourceful as ever, have been playing Gaga at Fayerweather, without a pit, but at the park, in the gym, and on the playground. The new Gaga Pit is already being used in PE classes and as a recess option.
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Unit Students Building a Gaga Pit
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Fayerweather Street School | 765 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 | 617-876-4746
Fayerweather is a private PreK, kindergarten, elementary and middle school. We engage each child’s intellect.