I Just Want To Say...

This has been really fun but I AM SO GLAD TO BE DONE!!! I just want everyone to know that its been a fun last two years and I am going to miss you all! Hopefully we will keep in touch and GOOD LUCK to everyone in the future!

Almost There!!!

This was an amazing experience and I am very happy that we all were given this amazing opportunity. Not too many people can say that they have been rock climbing, hiking, and mountain biking all in a matter of two weeks! All I can say is that this is something that I am never going to forget and I am so thankful that we were given this wonderful opportunity!

The Real Deal

Let's just say that I had a completely different picture in my head of what types of rock we were going to be climbing! When we first pulled into the parking lot all I could think is, oh man this is going to be a challenge! The rocks that we were going to climbing were huge and very steep!

All I have to say is that I am so glad that I was able to go on this trip, I had so much fun! There were times where I did want to give up, but I pushed myself to accomplish climbing vertigo, and I did it! Even though it took me longer than others I did it!

This experience was amazing and rock climbing is something that I would love to start doing!

Rock Wall Climbing at EHS

I was really excited to learn how to climb! It is something that I have never done before and it was something that I have always wanted to try. I will say that i was a little bit nervous though. I really enjoyed how we had an experienced rock climber come in and teach us the proper form and terms of rock climbing.

I feel that this is something that I would like to continue doing. It is a great workout and I really enjoyed doing it!

Honors Camp!

Going to Wenatchee for the weekend was super fun! It is absolutely beautiful where we were at and it was fun to spend the weekend with my fellow peers. I was a little nervous about doing the workshops with the students because I didn't know if they were going to like what we were going to be teaching them. They loved it! I was so glad that they did because it made it so much more fun! We picked the perfect spot to have our session and I think that is why they liked it so much. We were down by the water, and that was good because it was really hot their that weekend!

I was in a group with Katie and Chelsea and for our lesson and we were presenting was making stick vases, homade icecream, did a fear factor game with them. Some of them either really liked making the stick vases and some of them didn't really care for doing them. But they seemed to really enjoy making the icecream and participating in the fear factor game.

I am really glad that we got the opportunity to go present at a camp for 8th graders, it is always nice to get experience working with students and it makes me really excited to start working with them. It was also fun hanging out with all of the people in the PE group.

Hiking

One thing that I wish that I did more of is hiking. When I went to Arizona this year my sister and I went up to the hills and went hiking, and all I can say is it was SO beautiful! Ever since than I have wanted to go hiking more and more because you see nature and it is fun and a good workout at the same time.

This hike was a lot more difficult than I thought it was going to be. First of all I was not feeling good at all that day and it was very hot outside. I will admit that I was struggling a little bit, all I have to say is that I am glad that I wore comfortable clothes and layers. Because once we got to the top it was really cold! But it was so beautiful!! I could sit up there for hours and just watch the sunset and just listen to the peacefulness.

This is something that I am going to continue to do because I feel that it will keep me in shape and it is something that I really enjoy doing!

Mountain Biking :)

Mountain biking was a ton of fun! I was really worried about it at first because I haven't been on my bike that much this year and I didn't know if I was going to be able to complete the ride. The first part of the ride was SOOO HARD!!! It was a steep hill and a lot of us had to get off of our bikes and walk up. That's when I was thinking, oh man this is going to be hard and I am not going to like this at all!!

Once we got pasted that first part the rest of the ride was so fun and it felt so good to be outside in the woods and look at the beautiful view at the top. I was extremely proud of myself that I did not get off my bike for the rest of the ride. This is something that I really enjoyed and it is something that I want to continue to do. It was a really good workout and I really loved just being outside because it was such a beautiful day!

One thing that I would have like to do is have the whole class to both of the rides. I would have liked to try the hardcore ride because I feel that I could have done it and I think that it would have been fun. I hope that when I become a teacher that I will be able to take my students out mountain biking, because this is an activity that you can do as you get older and its a great workout!

Unicycle!!

UNICYCLE!! Really?!?! I never thought that I would ever try and ride a unicycle! When they first told us that we were going to have to learn how to ride a unicycle, my first thought was there is no way!! When we watched the video on the younger students riding they made it look so easy!! When it was time for us to get on and try I was really nervous, and I didn't even think that I was going to be able to even get up on the dang thing!

With the support of my fellow classmates I was able to get up on the unicycle and ride across the gym with two people supporting me on each side. Throughout the quarter I practiced a lot and felt that by the end of the quarter I was going to be able to ride across the gym by myself, but unfortunately I was not able too :(

I have so much respect for those students who know how to unicycle and do all of those tricks, I really wish that I could have been able to ride by myself! Oh well, maybe when I am a teacher I will try and get unicycles for my class!

Turst Builders

When I heard that we were going to being team building and trust building activities I knew it was going to be fun. I really like doing these types of things because it makes you work together as a team and it gets you to trust each other. We did a lot of fun activities that I have never down before and they are activities that I would love to use in my classroom. I wish that we all could have worked together instead of being separated in two groups, but it was still fun.

The activity that we did in the beginning of the day was really fun! Mr. H made that activity so much fun because he was so animated and got us excited to be there. I hope that when I am a teacher I have that intensity that he has because it makes it so much more enjoyable to be there!

There were times during our trust builders and team builders activity that I thought we were not going to be able to complete the activity, but we always worked through it and it felt so good at the end when we accomplished it!

I am really glad that we got to do this as a class because I feel that it brought us closer and we got to know each other a little better. There were things that we did that were challenging for some people but we all encouraged each other and helped each other push through. That was a really fun day and I am glad that we were able to do that as a class!

Circus Arts

Okay, so when they said we were going to be doing circus arts I will be honest, I was a little nervous. I did not really want to be learning about circus arts, but once we started practicing and learning all of the tricks it was actually pretty fun. I didn't realize how hard it actually was going to be.

The diabolo was surprisingly hard and it took me a while to get it down. I think that this is something that I would like to do with my students in my future classroom because it teaches them to be patient and it teaches them that they have to practice new things and that it takes time.

The flower sticks were really fun! That was the one thing that I caught on quick with. I thought it was really cool when that guy came in (sorry forgot his name!) and showed us all of the tricks on the diabolo and the flower sticks, he was extremely good! I wish that we could have worked with him more because I felt that I would have learned a lot more tricks from him.

I will be honest, in the beginning of the quarter I really did not want to do the circus arts, but now I don't mind it so much. It was pretty fun to learn something different

Indo Boards

I am really glad that we got that girl to come and demonstrate the Indo Boards for us and the discovery school students. I know that is something that I would love to have for my students to use because there is a lot of cool things that you can do with it. I really never thought that you would be able to all of those things on a board.

This is something that I feel students would really enjoy because it is different. I thought that her presentation was great and you could see that the discovery school students really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun. When I become a teacher I am for sure going to try and get these Indo boards for y students!

Frisbee

Frisbee was a lot of fun! It was such a nice day out the first part of class and it was fun learning the different types of throws you can do with a Frisbee. The first part of the day was all about getting our skills down and practicing with a partner. I thought that this was good because I have not played Frisbee in a long time and I needed some practice. I thought that the activities that we did with our partners were fun and gave me the opportunity to work on my throwing and catching skills

When we were playing Frisbee golf it was super windy! That made it very difficult because the Frisbee was not going anywhere! I think that it would have been more fun if it was not windy outside, and I really liked how at every hole that you had to throw the Frisbee a certain way

The best part of the day was playing ultimate Frisbee! I thought that we all had a lot of fun and the games were really competitive. I think that this is a fun game to play and I like it because you are always moving around and it is challenging.

Inline Skating

When I heard that we were going to be doing inline skating all I could think about was how excited I was when I was younger to get my very own Barbie roller blades. I thought that I was the coolest girl on the street with those bright pink and white blades!

I was a little bit nervous to get back on the roller blades because I haven't done it since probably the 7th grade. Once I put those blades on it took me back to my childhood, roller blading downtown with my friends and around neighborhoods, that was fun.

The only thing that I did not like about roller blading in the field house was that it was difficult to get speed and go smoothly through the cones. I think it would have been a lot more fun if we could have done a course outside with hills and other obstacles. Overall I had fun and it brought me back to the good old days!

Inline

When I heard that we were going to be doing inline skating all I could think about was how excited I was when I was younger to get my very own Barbie roller blades. I thought that I was the coolest girl on the street with those bright pink and white blades!

I was a little bit nervous to get back on the roller blades because I haven't done it since probably the 7th grade. Once I put those blades on it took me back to my childhood, roller blading downtown with my friends and around neighborhoods, that was fun.

The only thing that I did not like about roller blading in the field house was that it was difficult to get speed and go smoothly through the cones. I think it would have been a lot more fun if we could have done a course outside with hills and other obstacles. Overall I had fun and it brought me back to the good old days!

Geocaching

On May 12, we walked all around campus Geocaching. At first I thought that it was going to be boring, but I actually had a lot of fun. It was fun to try and figure out the clues that were given to us. We were in groups of 3 or 4 and in the beginning we had to go hide our cache and write down the coordinates and come up with a cleaver clue on where the cache would be

I also thought it was interesting to use the GPS devices and it was fun to see that the coordinates actually matched up with the ones that were given to us. I think that this is a great activity to use in the classroom and i think that it is something that the students would enjoy doing