Active Learners - my email address

Thank you to all of you who have posted reflections.  It has been great reading such thoughtful posts in many cases.

If I am not one of your followers on your blog or I have not commented on your post, please email me your blog URL again.  I have not quite finished commenting, but if I have emailed you back that means that I do have your link and it seems to work.

My email address is

phillips_k@surreyschools.ca

If I have commented and asked you a question - please either edit your post to answer the questions and re-publish or create & publish a new post to answer them.

Thanks!

Active Learners - Letter Grades

For everyone writing an Active Learning Reflection - please suggest a letter grade (A, B, C+, C, C- or I) that best fits your progress in class so far this year.  Use the information your have written in your reflection to help you.  This is all part of the process of you and I working together to construct a grade for you in a class where YOU are the one who knows what your effort has been like every day, how you have worked with your classmates, how you have pushed yourself.  All of those things are difficult to quantify (put into grades or numbers) which is why we are trying to create a grade based on thoughtful reflection, frequent feedback and talking / dialogue with your teacher.
Thanks for all of you who have sent me the link to your blog - please do that even if you have not posted anything yet.  I have started commenting on the blog reflections that you have written and will have a chance to speak with you tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday about the semester end.

Great job so far, I am really enjoying reading them!  Email me with any problems / concerns.

Ms. Phillips

Active Learning 8/9 - Reflection

Welcome Active Learners!

Thanks for getting your blog set up and following mine.  I will add you to my reading list soon, so that I can easily see your posts.  I am looking forward to reading your reflections.  Here are some guiding questions & themes for your first post about your progress in Active Learning so far this year...

During PE this year, how have you shown you are prepared and willing to participate in a variety of activities?  On what days have you participated to your best effort and why?  What days have been a struggle for you and why?

How do you contribute to the overall success of the class?  What kind of attitude do you bring and why?  How do you interact with other students in our class?

Describe your participation during fitness days - have you been able to push yourself physically?  What types of fitness activities do you enjoy the most?  What fitness goals do you have for the rest of the year? 

What does "leadership" mean to you?  Who are the best leaders in our class - why?

What improvements would you like to make in PE by the end of the year?  What are you the most proud of so far?

I hope that this outline will help you prepare for your interview with me this week.  Please feel free to add other information that is important to your journey in Active Learning so far - these questions are just ideas to get you thinking.  When writing your post, please be thoughtful - this is going to be your report card for both me & your parents to read. 

Ms. Phillips

Get Fit Final Reflection

I am loving the inspiration / motivation posts that I have been seeing - so many great quotes!
If you have not posted a few inspirational pics, please do so - your blog will be here all year, so as you need some inspiration once get fit is over, you have somewhere to look to!

Final Reflection and Interviews -
Please post your reflection by Monday... I want to read them before our interviews next week.
Looking forward to reading and talking to you about what Get Fit has meant to you.  Hard to believe the semester is almost over :(:(:(

Inspiration

This commercial is from 1995.  I loved it then and I still do.

Today's post - Jan 11

Today's post can include any or all of these three themes - whichever apply to your experience:

a.  snowshoeing - what was your day like?  was there anything that surprised you?  would you do it again?  how do you feel about trying new things?

b.  start thinking about your year end post - we are almost at the end of the semester :( - what have you learned?  what will you take with you? what is your plan for fitness on your own?

c.  inspiration & motivation:  find & post pictures, quotes etc. on your blog that are inspiring and motivating to you.. make this post like an inspiration board that you can look at when you need a boost!

Happy blogging!

Mt Seymour Snowshoeing Field Trip

What an amazing day!  We had perfect conditions for our winter workout.  I was really proud of everyone - we really had to work hard on the hills.  More than that, I am happy that you were able to have a new and positive winter fitness experience.  So cool.