My Newest Medal

A couple of weekends ago, I played in a fastpitch tournament.  We played in te May Mayhem tournament in Richmond, a tournament that we go to every year.  It was a good weekend all in all.  We weren't focused through our Round Robin play but we still went 3-1 with our only loss coming to a Nanaimo men's team.  With that record we had a bye to the final where we would play that same Nanaimo team.  After losing 7-0 in the round robin game we won by a score of 3-1 to win yet another gold medal.

I've been playing fastpitch since I was in grade 2 and the team has been great.  We have been to 5 Provincials an medaled every time with a bronze, two silvers and two golds.  We have also been to two Western Canadians but only came home with a silver in 2012.  I've have also represented our district in the BC Summer games once winning a bronze and I'm on this years team to in Nanaimo.  Overall, I have baseball 3-4 times a week and have tons of medals and awards that make te time pay off.

FINAL ASSESSMENT

It's that time of year again.  It's time for finals and for PE it's no different.  This will be my final PE post and it will recap all of my participation in class, my athletics outside of school and everything else to do with healthy living.


PARTICIPATION


My participation this year was very good I feel.  I was always at class, always remembered my PE strip, and was always trying no matter what we were doing.  Through all activities whether I liked them or not I was trying.  I loved playing the new sports or sports that I wouldn't often play such as lacrosse and wolves and hounds.  I also found my self enjoying fitness as the year progressed.  I loved the pond runs and community runs because running with friends is enjoyable, but I also liked the activities to do with strength training, such as the Fitness Blender activities that we were doing a couple weeks ago.  Overall, I feel as though in this category I deserve an A (21.5-25/25) because of the reasons above.  In conclusion, I did pretty much everything that is required in this section.


SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE CLASS


I'm not really too sure how to mark myself in this category.  I haven't really organized activities but I often clean up.  If organizing sports and activities isn't my strong suit then participation is.  I have given 100% in every class.  There have been times where my friends wouldn't be pleased about a fitness day or whatever they may not be too enthused about and I try to motivate them because I'm motivated.  I find it tough to motivate people if you don't want to do the activity yourself.  I feel that if I walk in with a positive attitude then others around me will have a positive attitude as well.  With that being said I feel I deserve a low A to high B(20-23/25) in this category because the organization of activities is the only thing I don't do very often but I often gather the equipment to set up or take down for activities.


HEALTHY LIVING


Honestly, I do live healthy.  My blog doesn't reflect that though because I never think to take pictures of myself doing anything.  This is reflective in my blog as well because I just don't think to take pictures of myself.  I have healthy meals nearly every night and have fastpitch 3-4 times a week.  I'm also on our district's BC Summer games team for fastpitch.  My point I guess is that living healthy to me just seems so natural so when I have like a chicken dinner with a salad on the side (no dressing), it doesn't occur to me as a special event that I have to take a picture of.  Same with fastpitch: I've been doing it since I was in Grade 2 and taking pictures of me isn't really what my parents are thinking about.  The only pictures I have of me playing fastpitch is the ones posted.  Overall I believe I probably deserve a high B or a low A (20-23/25) in this category because I live a healthy lifestyle but there maybe isn't as much evidence of that in my blog as you may have liked to see.

DIGITAL PORTFOLIO

For my blog, I had something like 20 posts or so.  With that being said, I feel as though my posts were meeting expectations.  It was tougher for me to post as the year went along because I wanted to post with evidence, but I didn't want to bring my phone around because it was easier to do what I wanted to do without my phone banging against my leg when I ran.  Overall though, my blog wasn't what I was strongest at.  I had around twenty posts so I believe that I should get a high B(20-22)in this category.

OVERALL MARK

I think that my overall mark in the course should be an A(86%)

Bootcamp

Yesterday in pe we had the fitness boot camp.  It seemed like a good idea but there were many people that just couldn't stay on task.  It was tough to follow because the stations were all kind of out of order.  It wasn't easy to follow where we were supposed to go but I still got some decent work in.  I know that others were confused as well because different people were in our group at the end than there were at the beginning.  If the order was easier to follow I think that it would have worked out better.

Blog Reflection

In my opinion my blog is decent.  I blogged a lot in the first semester because I had a lot of free time.  Now though,  in the second semester,  I have baseball almost everyday and it is though to find the time to blog.  First semester I though my blog was pretty good.  All I have to do in this second semester is to blog more and reflect more in my posts.

New Workout

Today in the weight room I wanted to to a core workout with Kris because it's better I feel to workout with friends and because core strength is always good to have.  Here is the video that me and Kris followed during our workout.

The workout was really tough.  It seems simple but when you are doin non stop core excersises,  you can feel the burn within the first minute.  Based on me and Kris' 2 rounds of 20 and 2 rounds of 10,  I would say it's almost impossible to do in 6 minutes.  It took me 7:15 and Kris 8 minutes to finish and the last 2 rounds were cut in half.  It probably would take close to 10 minutes to do the whole thing even if you had a really strong  core.

Report Card Blog

This year in PE,  there are some areas that I believe I have exelled at and others not so much.  One area I feel that I do good in is being in class on time and I always have my gym strip.  I also feel that I am always involved in the game weather it's a game I like or not, I try to be as involved as possible.  At home it has been tough because we had had a flood on August 25th and we are still waiting for repairs to be finished.  We only got our kitchen back last week which means there has unfortunately been a lot of eating out of late,  but when I eat out, I make sure that it has vegetables and some sort of unprocessed meat.  You really don't know how much you miss something as simple as a grilled chicken breast, with some veggies until you can't have it.  I also feel that I have done well with my online portfolio as I try to keep updated and add photos to almost every post.

One area that I could improve in is the leadership aspect.  I help out with equipment often and keep teammates involved when we are playing the game.  The only thing I don't do very often is organize teams.  If too many people are organizing teams it can feel very unorganized so I try to stay out of it.

Sorry this post is late but I had to attend a funeral in kamloops on the Thursday that you announced this post and I didn't hear about it until yesterday.

Wolfed and Hounds

This game was probably the most fun I had had all year in pe.  I felt like I was man tracker and was really involved for the full 80 minutes.  One thing that could have made the game better would have been if there were more wolves or less people hunting the wolves.  The game involved teamwork, cooperation, and motivation to get the job done.  All in all it was a great game and I loved that day in pe.