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.