First of all, I feel that a big part of my success in PE has to do with my participation. Every single class I have come ready to go. I have not once this semester forgotten PE strip. Furthermore, I have attended all classes when possible, aside from Doctor excused illnesses. No matter if it is a fitness day, or a choice day, I have always strived to do my best with a positive attitude. I always try my best in PE, because I simply would like to benefit myself as much as possible. On choice days, I have always chosen either volleyball, or weight room. I have made these choices for myself, because I feel I am best benefitted. In a game of soccer or basketball, I have previously been excluded, or not gotten to play much as I'm quite small and not so skilled in these sports. In volleyball, everyone gets to equally play. I find I get a lot better use of my time in volleyball as I am always on the court. The same goes for the weight room. In the weight room, I can do independent activities that help me reach the accomplishments I strive for. I'm always moving and doing something, whether a machine or floor work, my time management is great and the time given I find is very well spent.
Secondly, I believe that I have shown good leadership qualities this year. A way that I help to enhance my classmates PE experience, is through participation. Ways that I try to include everyone include games, choice days, and fitness days. A specific example I can remember is playing dodgeball with my class, every time I saw a ball on the ground, I'd pick it up, and if I already had one in my hand, I'd immediately give the extra ball to a shy classmate standing at the back. I did this through out the whole game and gave balls to several different people in order to I courage them to play. I feel that this really enhanced the game for everyone as there was so much more effort and participation given. On choice days, every time I played volleyball i would look around for people with a team, or simply people who were standing on their own. My friends and myself would always invite them to join our team, this way they would feel included and welcome to play. Also, it made my experience more interesting as almost every choice game I was playing with new people from different classes and different grades. On fitness days, I'd always seem to end up with people from both grade 10 classes. A way I helped others on fitness days, was simply just encouraging them. An example I remember of this is my friend who set herself a goal to get 7 on the beep test. I ran with her the whole time I didn't let her give up and encouraged her to get her goal as I ran beside her, and although at times she wanted to give up, she reached her goal! Also, helping out wise, on choice days I almost always helped set up the nets, it is such a simple task but such a big way of helping out with something that needs to be done.
Thirdly, my PE 10 year was filled with goals, small and big, which some were reached, and others an ongoing process. On a negative side, something that really frustrated me this year was my inconsistency. In grade 9, I was very consistent, and through out the year improved little by little. This semester however, my fitness levels were jumping all over the place. I'd do good one week, poorly the next, and amazing the next. This is still something I'm struggling with, as I am trying to find the cause of this new difficulty. However, I was still able to accomplish a lot of great things throughout the semester. My flexibility has improved a lot, this has been shown in dance and activities outside of class, but I definitely improved and worked on it in class. Ways I did this was weight room stretching, stretches after beep test and cario activities, as well as fitness days where we could choose our own activities such as different forms of Yoga. Also this year, I continued my goal from grade 9 which was making sure to eat a healthy breakfast. Although some morning when I got up late I missed this, most of the time I did eat a good breakfast. Something I have come to love this year is fruit smoothies, like making your own booster juice. I like using vanilla frozen yogurt, strawberries, raspberries and a little banana. I always have fruits in myself as we buy frozen packs of raspberries, and strawberries, I've been using tons of them too to create these shakes as well as just sometimes coming home and eating a bowl of fruit. I have a very healthy house hold and we eat a lot of organics and healthier alternatives to junk food. So therefore, I have a pretty good diet a home. Another thing is my dance. I'm going into my 5th year of being a dancer. My dance has improved a lot this year, and my teachers have noticed. I've been practicing and stretching more, in order to maintain my high level of senior dance at my studio. I'm also very exciting for the up coming year as I am taking more hours of dance at my studio, and am trying to get into dance in school. This will keep my fitness up as I'll be doing dance everyday, and some days both inside and outside of school. As well, like mentioned in a previous blog posts I have started to do very long walks with friends, and in the summer look forward to changing these walks into individual runs. I know that I will be able to do this, and have the time to do so in the cool morning or evenings during the summer months when I am not in dance.
Finally, I'm proud to say that I have successfully maintained my blog this year. I feel it shows a clear representation of my accomplishments this semester. I have almost every week been able to get a post or two up. Although I didn't stick with weekly review posts, I felt like doing individual activity posts allowed me to be more descriptive and go more in depth with what exactly I had been accomplishing. I have a variety of different posts from a variety of different things. I've included outside of class activities, fitness days, regular game and class days, and have said what has worked for me and what I have enjoyed. Ive written a far amount of detail with each posts, and this has benefitted me as I've been able to look back through old posts and see what I need to work on, and ways that I can constantly improve myself. I did not use as much digital evidence as I would have liked too, although it is not completely absence and I have used it in a few posts. I wish I would have remembered to take more pictures and videos. However, I feel my blog is very "well rounded" and seems quite complete and well maintained. I am proud of myself for remembering to do blogs and completing them carefully with a lot of detail.
Next year I have taken PE as an alternate. If I end up in PE, I would like to work on keeping my fitness consistency. I would also like to continue to work on flexibility and remembering to add digital evidence. I would continue to demonstrate leadership, and continue to come everyday ready and willing. If I do not end up in PE next year, I hope I get into in school dance. On top of this I will be staying active in studio dance 2 hours a week. If I don't get into in school dance I will be getting a gym membership and going to the gym twice a week. I have already discussed this with my parents so that I can make sure either way I stay active. Through out the summer I hope to be outside lots, on runs and walks. I will also start using online workout sites such as the ones we were shown in class, to workout at home with a simple yoga mat.
I feel I have successfully demonstrated and shown my growth and success in PE 10. For my accomplishments and learned I feel I deserve around 92%. Although there is room for growth, I have defiantly achieved a lot and have always tried to maximize my fitness and PE experience to benefit myself and others. I feel I have the skills to continue to stay fit for the rest of my life, and have learned the importance of self encouragement and motivation.
