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Pictures from Piscataway Buddy ball. Tell us what we're looking at. So in the picture is, uh, our bucket stacking that our kids love to do, especially our younger younger grades. Um, with that they stack the buckets up to see how high they can make it. Sometimes they make castles, sometimes we get some of our families to help out, some of our parents that are just looking by, and they're either 5, 10, or taller and can help stack those buckets a little higher. So that's just one of the many fun activities. Uh, that the kids really participate in and really enjoy along with the help and support from their buddies. Your kids, were they in the pictures? Some of them were, yes, um, two of my kids are twins, Mia and Luke's Dio. Hi, Daddy loves you. Um, they were, they come every Monday to Buddy ball to help and support the program. Oh, that's so cute. Tell us about the activities that the kids are involved in along with the stacking. So most common we do, we'll teach the kids how to throw a ball like the yarn balls. We teach them how to kick like soccer balls or softer balls um and to catch them, which are really hard for some of our students. Um, another big hit for the kids are scooters, which is um scooters we do the adaptive bikes. It helps build their strength and their core. And for some of our older athletes we do more cooperative games so we play kickball with them kickball is a big hit, uh, relay races and it's fun because engaging that social piece we have them high five each other taking turns, so we work on a lot of things. Yeah, my son really loves on Mondays. Oh, I wonder what we're what we're gonna play today in buball so he looks forward to the activities. Is this like for the parents? Do you all stay there and watch your kids in action? Yes, I stay and watch. And do you all compare nodes? You got a lot of information from other parents. You learn a lot. Yes. How long has your child been involved with this? He's been there around 3 years, yeah, 34 years, and he loves going, and I guess all the kids do. So as soon as they get to the gym, what do you have them do? So for our 6 o'clock classes in our younger group this is pre-K to 5th grade, um, they come in, we actually put the gym divider up and we have two different activities. So about halfway through we we, we get them going right away halfway through, we, we, um, uh, divide them up again and they do the other activity. So whatever activity they started with, they do the second activity and vice versa with the other group. Then the 7 p.m. class we have them walk. This is our older group, uh, middle school age and older. Um, and then they walk in a circle and they just socialize and it's for me and for my coaches here it's the most beautiful thing to see as well as for the parents, um, and then we play like volleyball, uh, we're actually gonna play volleyball next week. We're gonna have a high school girls volleyball team come and play with our 7 o'clock class with our older kids and again socialization. They're always being physically active, but for me, especially the last couple of years is seeing that socialization with our older students so very great to see.

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Coaches Vincenzo Stio, Shannon Lauder, Dana Pepe and parent Sandra Permaul joined News 12’s Della Crews to discuss the league’s mission.

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