Thursday, 16 January 2014

Final Blog Post

During this year for PE, I think I had days when I was really good as well as days when I could have done a lot better. For participation in this class I think I did my best and I think this was one of my strongest areas in PE. For attendance I was always early and never had a day late. Although I did miss some days, I never tried to do it deliberatley as I might have been sick. Also for days such as fitness days there were never any days that I would skip from it to avoid missing out on whatever activity we did. I also always had my gym strip and never accidently "forgot to bring it." I also thought my energy level during games with class was high and energetic. I also really tried whenever we played games with our class because it was just overall fun and made me want to be more active. Although I may not have been the greatest at some games or activities, I still tried. However this was a lot different from out fitness days. Although I bought my strip and attended class, I don't think I pushed myself to the best of my ability on some days. For example, if I ever feel tired or worn out the day of our fitness activity I wouldn't try my best because I know I've already set my mindset into not doing so, and I guess that's from me just being lazy. Other than that I think there were also many days when I felt really energetic and made sure I would complete an exercise with the best of my ability and felt really proud after. I also think some activities played a huge part of whether I would do the activity or not, such as the pond run compared to the community run. I personally dislike doing the pond run and I think it keeps me away from running the way I'd like to. The "one minute off, one minute on" idea may be good for others, but personally I feel that if I'm not tired while I'm running there should be no reason to stop, whereas the community run is a lot different. The community run allows ne to run at the same pace I want to and doesn't keep me from running under rules. It also gives me a chance to improve by trying to beat my score, which is why I sometimes feel like I would rather try harder at the community run than the pond run. I also personally hate choice days. I find doing activites with the  class is a lot more fun and actually has people trying whereas some kids don't even try their best at choice days because they feel the need not too. I dislike choice days because after a while it gets really boring and if we can't switch to something else a lot of us just sit out instead of doing the activity. I also dislike how every choice days have the exact same choices. I usually choose volleyball because everything else gets taken over by the guys and it gets boring after awhile because they usually don't pass to you, although there have been times when Raman and I have gone to go play soccer and have our choices change up a bit. Usually when we play soccer it's a lot of fun but it depends on who is playing with us. For example, we sometimes play with guys from the same grade and it seems like they try and take over the game instead of including us in it whereas if we play with guys from older grades they are usually more interactive. For social responsibilty and contribution to the class I think I did farely well. I did try my best to involve others in joining the activity or encourage them to do better but it would usually be my friends and not people that I didn't know. I wish that I could have been more involved with other classes and not only ours. Although I know I didn't try my best to involve others I think I did really well in setting up equipment for a game to start up. I think one of my biggest weaknesses in PE this year was the fact that I couldn't make teams or yell at people when they were doing something they shouldn't have been doing, and I would really like to become better at that so that next time I could be a better leader and involve myself more into making teams rather than just following someone else's orders. For healthy and active living I believe that my older blog posts really reflect on me being honest with myself. I know for sure that there were many fitness days when I didn't try my hardest and wrote about it without lying to you and myself about what I really did. Whenever I would stop doing an activity or exercise there was always someone there to encourage me to keep going or it was just the mindset that I had already had for myself. Overall I think I really improved and I definitely saw a difference in myself. Over this PE semester I have felt more energetic and and had more fun than ever not only for choice or class days but fitness days as well. I have also learned a lot more than before such as how going to the weight room is useless if you don't actually have a goal on what you want to accomplish. For example, last year I felt like I had to go the weight room just because I was forced to whereas this year I know that everytime I go into the weight room it is for something I actually want to improve on or gain. In the past I felt like I didn't do much with things not only in PE but oustide as well. Over time, I have started to eat more healthier and be more active. For example, I usually would eat whateer junk food I saw and would also be a lot more lazy. Although now I've started to watch what I eat more carefully and I've started to join more activites. Not only things that involve fitness but also clubs such as Art club that keeps me away from going home and just laying on the couch. After PE this year I really want to keep up with being fit and decided to join soccer at school and keep eating healthier. I will aslo start going to the gym since I won't be able to get a proper physical activity done in a day and that would annoy me considering I've had PE for so long and I had it for an entire year last year and the one before. Overall I feel that my blogs were done well. I also feel that they got better over time. I feel like my blog posts weren't done as well as they were done towards the end of the semester. I personally think this happened because I had a really bad phone in the beginning that kept me from getting the best digital evidence that I could get. I also think my blog posts have  improved over time because I have learned a lot more and applied to it much  better. I also think I realized the importance of a blog and started keeping up with it resulting in a lot more blog posts. Although I think I did really well on my blog I don't think I did half as good on others. I barely wrote comments on my peers blogs unless I was told to, and now that I think about it, I think I should have considering how much I could have helped someone else improve or really comment on how well they were doing. Now after doing blogs I would really like to continue with it even though I don't have PE anymore. I think it's a great way to learn and improve on what I've already done and I will try my best too. Overall I think I deserve a 92% (A) in this class! :)

1 comment:

  1. Kiran I really enjoyed reading this post and I agree with many of the sentiments you have written. You have quietly been a positive part of our class and you have been growing in the "learning" part of class as well. All of education is actually for YOU to learn about yourself and where you fit into the world so I hope you keep realizing that like the weight room, all of your classes should be about your goals of self improvement. Keep smiling, exercising, and learning. See you in PE 11.

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