8th Graders,
We are on the final 2 weeks of the quarter. Congratulations on completing your Strength Training Unit. For many of you, that was the first time that you have ever incorporated any type of Weight Training into your lives. We will be having several fitness days throughout the year in the weight room in order to work on building your strength.
WEEK AT A GLANCE
Monday- Intro to Jump Roping (M/U Room)
Tuesday- Jump Roping Skills
Wednesday- Run Day (see below)
Thursday- Jump Roping Skills
Friday- Fitness Day (see below)
WHAT UNIT ARE WE IN?
We are starting a new 3 week unit called "Jump Roping." To read all about this new unit and to print out the Unit Materials for Jump Rope, click here. Your unit materials will be due on Monday. Please put them behind Tab #3.
WHAT IS OUR RUN THIS WEEK?
We will be doing our second Mile Run of the year. We ran the mile 7 weeks ago. You will start to get a good idea on how much, if at all, your fitness may be improving. The weather is projected to be 70 degrees with a slight chance of rain. If it is raining heavily, the run will be postponed. By the way, how many miles of blood vessels are in the body? (Read below on instructions on now to find the answer I am looking for).
WHAT FITNESS ACTIVITY ARE WE DOING THIS WEEK?
At this point, I am undecided as to what our fitness activity will be. We are schedule to be in the gym this week.
DID YOU FILL OUT YOUR E-LOGS?
e-Run Log is for the 1-2-1 Run, Due Tuesday, 10/13/09.
e-Fitness Log is for the "Rock Wall Circuit", Due Thursday, 10/15/09.
IS HOMEWORK ASSIGNED THIS WEEK?
1. A new homework assignment was posted. Your assignment, HW #8, is looking at exercise intensity using Heart Rate and RPE. Please click here to download. HW #8 is due on Wednesday, 10/21. To see how many miles of blood vessels are in the body, click here.
ARE THERE ANY ASSIGNMENTS DUE THIS WEEK?
1. Print out your Jump Rope Unit Materials and put behind Tab #3.
EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENTS
-Soon, I will be posting several extra credit opportunities on my Extra Credit page on my website, but, in the meantime, there are 2 assignments available to you now.
Extra Credit #1-Print out your BMI page from the website above = 5 points toward your PE 101 grade
Extra Credit #2-Make a Mixed Fitness Music CD = 10 points toward Fitness Grade.
Follow the requirements below:
*Every song has to be middle school appropriate-no swear words and no controversial
content.
*The CD has to have AT LEAST 20 songs
*Music has to be be up-tempo and up-beat (slow songs are not good for pumping people
up while working out). Use songs that you and classmates would have fun working out to.
*Make sure the songs are from different artists
Extra Credit #3- Weight Room Poster (10 points)
As you know, the weight room is officially opening to students to work out at lunch on
Tuesday and Thursday. It would be nice to see the weight room decorated with
"Motivational Posters" with some good words of wisdom on it. A good, but cheasy
example would be "No Pain, No Gain". YOU CAN'T USE THIS ONE. Anyway, you would
take the saying and make a good poster worth hanging in the weight room for all
to see. To get full credit, please follow the parameters below:
Parameters:
1. Use construction paper sizes 12"x18" or 18"x24", any color.
2. Find a motivational saying appropriate to strength training and/or fitness. I bet
a google search will produce a lot of results. I encourage you to even come up
with your own.
3. You can write/draw the the saying or print it out on the computer. Just make sure
it can be seen from pretty far away, you want people working out in the gym to
be able to see it.
4. Decorate the poster with images, colors, etc, but don't make it too distracting and
overly crowded.
5. Put your name, period and roll call on back of poster.
6. Include your sources on the back of the poster as well.
ANNOUNCEMENTS/REMINDERS-Download and print your Jump Rope Unit Materials-Check out your Homework Page and look at HW #8, due next week.
You do not have a Word of the Week.
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