Exercise Plan!

What is your commitment to your fitness over the Holiday break? My commitment is to walk/jog mon,wed, fri, for 30 minutes both weeks. I will also do strength exercises 4 times during break and yoga for 30 minutes at least twice during break. Don't be like the average american, challenge yourself over the next two weeks. If you make the commitment you will do it. Have a great Holiday Season. Check in to the Blog to see everyones fitness commitments.

How is rappelling going?

After 3 days of rappelling, how is the experience as a rappeller, belayer, onlooker? Remember during this unit the expectation is for you to rappel at least 8 times. 2 to 3 times the regular way showing me you understand the technique, 1 or 2 times going upside down and recovering, 2 or 3 times jumping off the wall army style, and 1 or 2 times going down face forward.

Rappel On!

Tell us what your concerns are with rappelling, I want you to consider the groups, the set up, the safety measures, the accountability sheet, and what ever else that concerns you with this activity that we will be doing the next few weeks.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

No response is needed. Have a great weekend please take a moment this weekend to really appreciate all the things that you are grateful for. We tend to focus on the things we want or don't have and take for granted how great things are right now. Happy Thanksgiving and remember PE clothes on Monday we have to work off all the turkey we ate.

Check out the video this is what we are working towards.

Trust lean, Pendulum, etc..

Tell us about your experience with the activities we did this week, both as a faller and catcher. (Trust Lean, Trust Pendulum, Willow in the Wind, Levitate,Float like a Leaf and Fridays Trust Fall)
How would you feel if we did the trust fall like this? Watch Video

The Walls!

Considering our values that we developed earlier in the year, how did this activity promote what we wanted our class to be about and what are some of the things that we still need to work on? The catagories where Trust, Fun, Community and Courage. To get the words that we used for each of the catagories refer to the blog on september 18th.

Electric Fence Continued!

Think of the journey we have been on with this activity, what has occurred through out the days of doing this, how have things been for you during this and what needs to happen for us to become complete with this? Don't forget Monday is fitness and Tuesday we will continue with the Electric Fence.

First quarter over already!

Happy Halloween! We have been in class for 4o days. Think back to the start of the year and let us know where you are at with the class? What role did you play this quarter? How did the class meet your expectations?

Hog Call & Race car

Look back at the activities we did on Thursday, working with a partner. How are these two activities valuable to us in our class and the enviroment we are trying to create?

Stepping Stones

Give us your reaction to our activity on Thursday (Stepping Stones), keep in mind the 3 principles we are working on (Respect, Responsibility, and Trust). Be as specific as you can in your insights.

Responsibility, Respect, and Trust

Give me your definition of these three words and how they relate to us in this course.

Responsibility, Respect, and Trust

Who are you?

To help us get an idea about the differences and similarities of us in the class, share something about yourself that only a few people know. If being totally annonymous helps, you can sign in using a code name and then e-mail me what your code name is.

rhinojosa@d211.org

Keeping Accountable

With the work we did on Friday, concerning the values we want to uphold in class as we continue through the year, I want you to give us ideas on how we are going to keep each other accountable for keeping our values alive and real for us as we begin to venture into more challenges. Remember you can use last weeks blog to keep in mind the categories we created.

On another note remember to bring in payment for rollerblading.

Full Value Contract

Hello everyone I would like to continue to work on this. Please add on to all catagories what it looks like to you and also add what does it sound like.
For example:
Fun looks like students smiling and sounds like laughter.
Courage looks like leading when no one else will and sounds like speaking up when everyone is quiet.
Community looks like togetherness and sounds like "hello".
Trust looks like catching someone when they fall and sounds like "I've got your back".

Please be creative this will help us through out the rest of the year. Have fun with this there are no wrong or right answers.

Clock Activity!!

Give us your view of today's activity and share with us your 3 words for the week.

Welcome Back!

Share with us how this class is going for you so far.