Golf Week!

This week the 7th and 8th grade students started the golf unit. This Thursday all 7th graders will take a field trip to the driving range and practice their driving and chipping skills for their class period. On Friday, 8th graders will have the opportunity to either play mini golf, practice at the driving range or golf on the actual course while we are on our field trip.

The girls JV Volleyball team beat Jefferson in three games on Monday. This Thursdsay is our next home game against Westview. Come out and show your support!

How about those GREEN BAY PACKERS?! They are off to a 3-0 start (the first time since 2001)! And........Brett Favre passed for his 420th touchdown! He now needs only one more TD pass to break Dan Marino's record for the all time touchdown mark.

New units next week!

This week we will be finishing up our unit of Track and Field for the 7th and 8th graders. We will be running the mile this week and then taking our cognitive test on Track and Field at the conclusion of our unit.

Sixth grade will be switching units as well starting either Track and Field, Flag Football or Field Hockey. Students have been doing an excellent job so far on their first units of the school year and I am looking forward to the upcoming weeks.

The JV Volleyball team beat Lisle last night in two games. The score of game one was 25-12 and game two was very exciting with a score of 29-27. Excellent teamwork girls!!

Fitness Testing

In P.E. this past week we started fitness testing at all three levels. Students are scored in the following categories: shuttle run, sit-ups, sit and reach, pull ups and the mile run. We will complete the mile run during the middle of next week. All students have been doing an excellent job at giving a lot of effort to improve their scores.

The JV Volleyball team had a successful win over Burr Ridge on Wednesday and have been working very hard in practice. The next game is Monday, away at Lisle. Hope to see you there!

Have a nice weekend!

New units and activities!

After a very successful first week of introductions in P.E. we will be starting our units for the first trimester. The sixth graders will be focusing on: field hockey, flag football and track and field in the next month. Each student will have the chance to also participate in step aerobics, jump roping and 10 minute distance runs. The heart rate monitors have been introduced to our sixth graders and we will begin practicing with them starting this week.

Seventh and eighth grade classes will be completing the track and field unit over the next few weeks, while also completing a 15 minute fitness run every week. The goal for each student is to try and stay in his/her target heart rate zone for the full 15 minutes.

I am looking forward to a very exciting first trimester and hoping that every student learns something new about Physical Education and staying healthy outside of class!