So for the second time in two years, I'm sitting in front of a computer in the school library typing up some BS year end blog post where I'm supposed to reflect on how I did over the course of the semester. And truth be told, I still think that I should NOT HAVE TO SIT IN FRONT OF A BLOODY COMPUTER FOR PE.
But I can't change how Mr.neuf does things, so let's get this over with ASAP.
The first pillar that we can find on Mr.Neuf's blog (http://teacherneufs.blogspot.ca/) is the pillar of participation (Saying it like that reminds me of the the pillar of autum). This category is entirely based off of what Pe should actually be solely marked on, that being skill, participation in activities, bringing gym strip, and encouraging others amongst other things.
For this semester, I'm going to say that in this category I got an A, say 92% to be specific. I say this because I participated in every activity as much as I felt up to on that given day, more than the amount of effort that I was willing to put into that activity. I brought gym strip everyday save once and I encouraged others when I saw an opportunity. If you don't believe me for that Neuf, feel free to ask either Kabir (the tall one) or Hemat. I encouraged both of them a lot on fitness days, and I'm hoping that they are willing to vouch for me. I think in this category what would hold me down is the fact that I'm horrible at sports, so my mark for the pillar would drop solely for lack of skill.
So if we keep that mark for this pillar as is, that equates to 23% percent for my overall mark.
The next pillar is "Social responsibility and Contribution to class"... This one doesn't remind me of any video games, the title is too long.
As far as this pillar goes, I feel that I got 80%. I helped with equipment for our class whenever I got the chance (There are a lot of other people who help out, sometime there is nothing to grab for the class), and I try to help out with leadership whenever possible, though I will say that taking a role of leadership isn't easy when Mr.Neuf sets someone specific in charge, such as Kabeer or Jag. But when I did get the chance, a good example that comes to mind was tchoukball, I do my best to lead in such a way that everyone has a good time and the game gets underway quickly. The only reason my mark for this pillar drops is because I didn't lead as often as I would have liked to, and I didn't always help with equipment.
So if I got 80% here, that translates into another 20% for my overall mark. Keep that in mind.
The next pillar we have the joy of reading is the pillar for Healthy living. Can you hear the kids in the background? All those kids crying out "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY"? No? That's because this pillar is just as stupid as the blog itself. This pillar kinda confuses me, so I'm going to copy paste this pillar from neufs blog to here as both a reference for me and a reference for you.
3) Healthy Living - this category includes all aspects of your past, current, and future data and goals on your health and fitness. Some of the things to consider would include: your actual fitness scores compared to others and what they teach you, noteworthy changes in your fitness, some of the barriers/limitations you face in participating, dietary choices and extra curricular activity choices and their impact on overall health, injury prevention, management, and rehabilitation, and future plans/goals for overall health choices. This is the connecting piece between class and life… if you have no evidence of choices/activities outside of class you should be failing this section. One major focus should be evidence of choices that specifically relate to the body goal you set. If you have never worked at your goal outside of class you should not be passing this section.
Ah, yes. This one. Eh, for this pillar I'm going to venture off a cliff and say I got 40%. I say that because I really don't have much proof other than those absolutely fantastically horrible videos. Which, I just fixed with the help of Fisher. Thanks Fisher! You should be able to watch them here now, so go check them out. NOW.
So I didn't really monitor anything that I did outside of school, because I do nothing outside of school that relates to my goal. Like, literally nothing. Unless my step-dad asks me to help him build a workbench for his workspace in the basement. But, that doesn't really improve my upper body strength.
I did nothing to change my eating habits, I'm fine with them, even though I know that they are the best of eating habits. If you watch the videos, you'll see I even included evidence of me not giving a crap and eating 10 brownies in a day. Because they were good brownies. And you know what? I don't even feel bad. They were good brownies. My sister made them. And I liked them. So I ate them.
No Remorse.
Oh, wait, 40% is equivalent to 10% for my overall mark. That needs to be included.
And now we get to the fun part. Or pillar. Whatever.
This 4th and final pillar is for our blog. ya, this thing that when you're reading right now. This boring thing that for some reason you're taking the time out of your life to sit and read.
For our blog we were supposed to have a ton of posts by now, have proof and evidence of the things we did in PE, and comment on other peoples' blogs in our class. And I did none of that. I have I believe 7 posts of the recommended 30, 4 videos, no pictures, and I haven't commented on anyone else's blogs. So really, because I have done a bit of work, I'm going to say that I got, meh, let's go with 32% here. Honestly, unlike the other pillars, there's really not that much for me to talk about here, because I just didn't care enough to do the blog.
So, 32% = 8% for my mark. Let's do some math shall we?
23+20+10+8= 61%
Well, there you have it. I need a mark, and that's my mark right there. I believe that to be a C, but I don't know.
That's all I needed to do. I have a mark, a percentage along with it, and a blog to accompany it all.
Thank you for reading people, I hope you enjoyed wasting your life reading this, have a good day, and this will be my very last post. Bye!
~Roman, He who finished and never started again
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
More Videos!
~Roman, the camera man who got hit in the balls with a frisbee
Tchoukball and Frolf (You probably think that I can't english right about now, don't you?)
Tchoukball! The wonderful sport of throwing a ball at a bouncy net thing and actually wanting it to hit the ground! So much fun!
So I first played this game with Mrs.Vaughn back in grade 4, and up until a few weeks ago I hadn't played the game since, and I had totally forgotten about the game. But when Mr. Neuf told us to look up a video, and I saw the nets, everything came back to me. I even remembered that I used to have a name tag on my desk in grade 4 and I had drawn Tchoukball onto the name tag as 1 of the 3 most enjoyable things or memorable things that I learned that year. Best sport ever.
So while we (Short Kabir, Jag and myself) got the rules figured out and organised teams (Jag mostly did that if I remember correctly), I found it really hard to explain the rules to the group because people didn't listen very often. So once we made the rounds to every team and explained all the rules, the game actually worked out pretty well. I will add one more thing and it's that while everyone understood the rules, not very many people took advantage of the fact that we could use both nets to score. I guess the pro sport players were too set on the mind set that one team had one net, the other team has one net. Not both teams have access to both nets.
Next up on the list of boring things to talk about we have Frolf! What is Frolf you might say? Frolf is Frisbee golf, and we played it with a twist. The twist was that we didn't take turns between teams throwing the frisbee, the goal of the game was to mutually pick a target that both teams agreed upon, and then on the count of three, both teams threw the frisbee and did their best between both team members to hit the target, alternating who threw the frisbee on each throw. I have a video of this too, so I'll have that posted soon if everything goes well. Once I have the video up, if I missed anything that I needed to talk about, I'll write them over on that post.
~Roman, pro speed frolfer
So I first played this game with Mrs.Vaughn back in grade 4, and up until a few weeks ago I hadn't played the game since, and I had totally forgotten about the game. But when Mr. Neuf told us to look up a video, and I saw the nets, everything came back to me. I even remembered that I used to have a name tag on my desk in grade 4 and I had drawn Tchoukball onto the name tag as 1 of the 3 most enjoyable things or memorable things that I learned that year. Best sport ever.
So while we (Short Kabir, Jag and myself) got the rules figured out and organised teams (Jag mostly did that if I remember correctly), I found it really hard to explain the rules to the group because people didn't listen very often. So once we made the rounds to every team and explained all the rules, the game actually worked out pretty well. I will add one more thing and it's that while everyone understood the rules, not very many people took advantage of the fact that we could use both nets to score. I guess the pro sport players were too set on the mind set that one team had one net, the other team has one net. Not both teams have access to both nets.
Next up on the list of boring things to talk about we have Frolf! What is Frolf you might say? Frolf is Frisbee golf, and we played it with a twist. The twist was that we didn't take turns between teams throwing the frisbee, the goal of the game was to mutually pick a target that both teams agreed upon, and then on the count of three, both teams threw the frisbee and did their best between both team members to hit the target, alternating who threw the frisbee on each throw. I have a video of this too, so I'll have that posted soon if everything goes well. Once I have the video up, if I missed anything that I needed to talk about, I'll write them over on that post.
~Roman, pro speed frolfer
Fitness test scores and comparison
Alrighty, so over the course of the semester, we did 3 fitness tests to see how we were doing in PE. The general idea that you want for the scores is for the scores to go up (or down on the T-test and the balance board). At the beginning of the year my scores were decent, and all of my scores got better in the second test, and then everything dropped significantly on the third test, and we'll talk about that when we get to it.
My second scores were;
Beep Test: 10.2
Flexibility: 0
T-test: 12.06
Plank: 1:04
Balance Board Touches: 14
Push ups: 24
Height 225 /Jump 280
And the third scores are here;
Beep Test: 9.4
Flexibility: 0
Height 225 /Jump 285
T-test 12.08
Plank 1:40
Balance Board Touches:12
Push ups :30
So looking at the scores and being able to compare them, I really only did worse on the beep test. At around the 3rd level I was starting to get cramps just underneath my rib cage, and I was quite irritated because usually they don't start until about level 5. Either way I kept going, and by level 9 I was starting to miss the beep to get to the line. I was very disappointed with myself for only running a 9.4 as you'll see in the video that I will post later once I get everything edited.
I'll also have to remember to get my first scores on here soon, I don't have them right now because they are still on my Skype account and I recently got my Laptop wiped, so I need to reinstall Skype.
My goal for the year was to improve my upper body strength and to increase my endurance, so I feel that by looking at my plank times and my push up scores, that while not significant, I have improved both of those. My endurance has gone up since I was able to hold the plank for longer, and my upper body strength has gone up because I was able to do more push ups. While this wasn't really the improvement I was looking for, I was looking for a much more significant change in the upper body strength and endurance, like double my original scores or so, this was still an improvement. I didn't really see that much of an improvement because I did very little to actually achieve those goals outside of school.
That's all from me. Ba bye.
~Roman, The worst fitnesser of all the fitnessers
My second scores were;
Beep Test: 10.2
Flexibility: 0
T-test: 12.06
Plank: 1:04
Balance Board Touches: 14
Push ups: 24
Height 225 /Jump 280
And the third scores are here;
Beep Test: 9.4
Flexibility: 0
Height 225 /Jump 285
T-test 12.08
Plank 1:40
Balance Board Touches:12
Push ups :30
So looking at the scores and being able to compare them, I really only did worse on the beep test. At around the 3rd level I was starting to get cramps just underneath my rib cage, and I was quite irritated because usually they don't start until about level 5. Either way I kept going, and by level 9 I was starting to miss the beep to get to the line. I was very disappointed with myself for only running a 9.4 as you'll see in the video that I will post later once I get everything edited.
I'll also have to remember to get my first scores on here soon, I don't have them right now because they are still on my Skype account and I recently got my Laptop wiped, so I need to reinstall Skype.
My goal for the year was to improve my upper body strength and to increase my endurance, so I feel that by looking at my plank times and my push up scores, that while not significant, I have improved both of those. My endurance has gone up since I was able to hold the plank for longer, and my upper body strength has gone up because I was able to do more push ups. While this wasn't really the improvement I was looking for, I was looking for a much more significant change in the upper body strength and endurance, like double my original scores or so, this was still an improvement. I didn't really see that much of an improvement because I did very little to actually achieve those goals outside of school.
That's all from me. Ba bye.
~Roman, The worst fitnesser of all the fitnessers
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