The document contains multiple student submissions describing their experiences with and views on Special Olympics. Special Olympics provides sporting events and activities for people with intellectual and physical disabilities. The students describe enjoying activities like bowling, bocce, basketball, track and field, and flag football through Special Olympics. They view it as an opportunity for disabled individuals to compete and spend time with others.

1. Wilson Middle School What Special Olympics Means to me…

3. Wilson Middle School Bryson Bowen 11-3-09 My Special Olympics My report on Special Olympics is bowling bocce, baseball, basketball, track/field, flag football. Bowling is my favorite Olympics it is easy and some times I hit the gutter. Bocce is my favorite you get the ball the closes to the white ball. Basketball is my favorite sport some times I keep making swishes and making lay ups. Baseball is my good sport I keep on making home runs. Track/field is my good running exercise it help you get good. Flag football is kind like football and you pull the flag out of their pocket and that is my Special Olympics.

5. What Special Olympics Means to me…. Melanie Longoria 3-11-09 My Special Olympics. Special Olympics is for very special people who are challenged mentally and physically. Most schools and cities have a Special Olympic organization. At Smylie Wilson Middle school we have Special Olympics and Meet in the Middle. Both groups work with the Special education classes. Meet in the Middle is a group of students who wants to Volunteer and work with Special Olympics. We do bowling, basketball, baseball , track field ,spirit , flag football, bocce , meet in the middle , and fun thrill.

7. Wilson Middle School Orion Wright 11-3-09 Ms Hargrove My Special Olympics Special Olympics is for very special people who are challenged both mentally and physically. Most schools have a Special Olympics organization. At Smylie Wilson Middle School we have Special Olympics and meet in the middle. Both work with special education classes. I personally think that meet in the middle are way people that are not challenged getting to help people that are challenged. I have not been able to earn my way into meet in the middle. I really think that once earn my way into meet in the middle and once I do work my way in it would be a great accomplishment. I plan to help people with things that they can’t do themselves. I also think that helping them will help me deal with some of my social problems. One of those problems is with people that can not hear. I also pledge myself to help those with things that they can’t do themselves. That’s why I think that Special Olympics is a very good program.

9. What Special Olympics means to me… Skyler McCoy 11- 3 - 09 Special Olympics Special Olympic is for very special people who have challenged mentally and physically. Most school and cites have a Special Olympics organization. At smile Wilson Middle School, We always have Special Olympics teams that like the other people can try to help that people needs. The peoples in our school, they will help the people that have dissolutely. Our people can help other people that have we don’t know. Bocce is fun thing to do when we get boring in class. I won the bocce games. Other people think that bocce is hard for other people try to play with us. I like that you can hit the white balls. The color ball you can hit the white balls. That very fun to play with other people to get along with us. Next, Basket ball is fun to teach other people to shot the basket in the hole. The hardest things in basketball is makes layup and run and pass it to your teams to show how other people to catch the ball that your teams give you the ball to make it in the hole to wins the games. To Effort to makes very good teams to try the basket. The basket ball is fun for every one have fun together.

10. Wilson Middle School Spencer Scroggins 3-11-09 special Olympics is for special kids that are disabled and some that don’t know any better and some kids that are on wheelchairs or on walkers an with a metical condition or a sires injury and we do baseball, basketball, and other stuff of course we reseal some times but we get meddles for it oh an we have young caches at Special Olympics.

12. Wilson Middle School What Special Olympics does Special Olympics are for the special people that are mentally challenged and physically challenged. Most schools compete in Special Olympics like basketball, track and field, bocce, and bowing. They think it is so fun and look at your self for once they don’t look the same. So stop picking on them!!!! There is meet in the middle it is when you help someone or something. It is like Green day and you help a plant out and you take care of the Earth. I am Gage Blair and I am a helper for Special Olympics. Some of the things Ms. Hargrove does are the best stuff ever And here are the things she does Bocce, track and field, bowling, And flag football for Special Olympics. This is Gage Blair and this is my story.