Wednesday, August 31, 2011

First Day of Edmodo assignments.

Today was our first day of using edmodo.com to complete assignments for Health and Personal Fitness class.

So far, we have been very successful!

Parents please let me know if you would like a code to view your child's activities on edmodo.com.

I will send you a document (which I am still writing) that will help you to register at edmodo, and will send you a specific Code for your child.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Today's activities and new PE clothing policy

Today the Junior High students are finishing their height and weight data check, and doing a short fitness workout to prepare them for the President's Fitness Challenge.

HS Personal Fitness class is going to do a 10 minute cardiovascular workout on the track, and then go to the weight room for some weight lifting and strength training.

NEW PE Clothing Policy

Since we are now using "standards based" PE grading, and no longer doing a daily participation grade, we will not be grading whether the students bring their clothes or not.

However, because of this we want to ensure that students are bringing PE clothes for PE class.  It's a simple matter of hygeine.  We don't want kids to have to get their school clothes all sweaty and dirty, and then we also don't want them to have to wear those same clothes the rest of the day. 

So, to ensure that the students are changing for Physical Education classes, this will be the new policy.  Students who forget to change clothes twice in a row will be given a detention(either for that day or the following day, student's choice).  The student will be sent to the office to call home and inform their parent of the impending detention, and why they have to serve it, this will happen before they join the rest of their classmates for PE class that day.

If you have any questions let me know... mark.harming@k12.sd.us

Monday, August 29, 2011

Introduction to Edmodo today.

Today, classes are logging into and getting introduced to edmodo.com.

Edmodo is our "online classroom" for Health Classes.

Any parents who wish to log in to edmodo to see how their child is doing, is encouraged to do so.

All you will need to do is e-mail me:  mark.harming@k12.sd.us, or call me at the school 234-4467, and I can give you a "parent code" that will enable you to log in and check on your child's progress.

For more information you can go to edmodo.com and watch the informational videos.

Friday, August 26, 2011

New School Year, Lesson Plans, etc...

Greetings everyone, welcome to my Blog for the 2011-2012 School Year.

I am once again excited to be teaching 7th and 8th PE/Health, High School Personal Fitness, and AR class.

This blog will be the place to go to find out general information about all of my classes. 
Announcements and things of that nature will be made here.

Lesson Plans for next week are done and can be found here.

Good Luck tonight to the Cubs FB team as they host Hot Springs, I got a good feeling about this one.

Also Cubs CC and VB will kick off their seasons tomorrow.  Good Luck to Everyone involved.

For today's Friday tune of the week, I'm feeling like something 80's today....

Enjoy Howard Jones.

Like I said, check in here once in a while to find out what's going on in our classes.

Have a great Weekend!