Final Marks Post

  Over all this year, I feel I have been very successful in active learning. I have tried to my fullest extent on many things but also have gym days that I am not to proud of. I bring my gym strip and am ready to go with a positive attitude every day. I encourage my peers but also need some encourage myself when I begin giving up. On fitness days i know it is the time to try my best because I am going to improve, and I'm improving for myself and no one else. I have learned a lot about myself during my first year of high school active learning. I have learned about myself, what I do well, what I don't do well, what my limits are and how far I am able to push myself in various activities.
  A few things I learned that I do well are pacing myself, though I go incredibly slow, I still am able to go for a pretty long time. I also learned that I am good at things that I am given a short amount of time to work and then recover. An example of a activity would be the 30 second on off exercise. Activities that I don't do well are running for a given time really fast then relaxing and running for long amounts of time. Thought I am not good at working hard for a long time then recovering, I now know that I am a slow recover er and as I work I start recovering faster.
  My efforts these last few months have been a lot better than the beginning of the year. At the beginning of the year I hadn't tried hard because I did not realize that I am doing this for me, and my growth. Now that I have realized that, I have been trying a lot harder because I do have goals that I want to reach. I feel that I have reached my goal and I'm ready to make it  better next year in grade 9 gym.
  As  for my growth this year, I think that I have grown a lot through out this year. I am able to run for longer amount of times because I learned how to pace myself. At the beginning of the year I did not know how to find a steady pace that would  help me run. finding my pace has helped a lot, I know I am definitely not the best runner in my class but i can work hard at my own pace and know I gave a lot of effort. It took me awhile to understand what was said about picking who you run with, and I now get it. I made the mistake of running with someone that always was trying to be better then me, kind of trying to make me feel bad that  I am not a strong person when it comes to PE in general. Now I run with people that run with me in a way that they are still working hard, but have me trying to get beyond my best. On a regular bases, to stay fit at home I regularly do sit ups and various exercises to stay fit. right now i am working on my abs, to get them more tight. To do that I do sit ups, planks, run to tone my legs. i encourage myself to eat better and have a lot of help from my mum. we make healthy diners and have fruit every day instead of junk food for snacks.
  Overall I honestly think my efforts toward the end of this year result in an A. I'm very close to being on the 4.0 so I have been trying even harder to maintain my A. I know most teachers would want to hear that i have a love for active learning now, but I don't. But I do understand why we have it and I am happy that I learned so much about myself.

june 3 dinner

every night my mom and i pick something healthy to eat for dinner and we always have a fruit to eat with it. yesterday my mum and i went shopping and bought fruits like watermelon, strawberries, cantaloupe and pineapple. for dinner today my sister and i made home made chicken wraps for dinner with lettuce. i asked my mom in the middle of grade 8 if we could start eating better because i want to get more fit and our regular shopping consisted of little fruit and more chips and pop. now i rarely have pop because i no longer like it and have chips when i'm out with friends. i'm really happy my mom helped me change my diet and because of her i am getting more fit. (:

leo and simba

i have two dogs named leo and simba. they are both labs and love to play. my dad and i play with them when ever we can. we run around and throw toys for them to retreive. they are both very energetic and keep us running around after them. simba is alot more energetic then leo but when he bothers leo then he starts playing with us. i love them (=  here is a video of simba and i on saturday, i was getting him off the sundeck so we could play.

may 15 hide and seek

on may 15th we got to choose what we did. we picked hide and seek tag around the school (: i was hiding with harman and sherleen. we first hid around the portables and we hide mostly in the forest. i crossed the river in the forest and sat on the other side for a while when we heard people comming. it was the most fun gym class ever. we ran so much and never got caught. i love doing this kind of games because it is something diffrent and is incredibly fun.

                            this is a picture we quickly took while we were hiding in the forest (=

harman sherleen and i

may 17 pond relays

on may 17th for fitness we did the pond relays. it was my first time doing the fitness and i thought i would do it very well. we had to run around the whole pond to receive a ticket. it looked easy but while i was sprinting around the pond i realized how hard it really was. i had harman and sherleen on my team and all together we got 14 tickets. for me, the first lap i did was horrible. i ran the hole thing and felt sick after. but as i did more laps, i started recovering a little faster after each lap. im honestly proud of  my self for doing this fitness because i did try my best to keep running. i think what made the diffrence was that i was with new people, not the normal person i do gym with. i learned from this fitness that i need to work on working hard then resting for a little while, instead of doing paces. i didnt like the fitness while i was doing it but after im happy i did it and now know what it is that i have to work on.

i took this picture in the girls change rooms after i changed :)