Arthritis

I think have early signs of arthritis. For the past three days my knees have been aching pretty bad. Arthritis is hereditary and my grandpa has it so there may be a good chance that I have it. The type of arthritis he has is called crippling arthritis. It's caused by twisting of the bones. My arthritis that I think I have is from not wearing any knee pads during wrestling season.

Teachers are good role models?

I replied to a physical education teacher on NASPE talk who was talking about kids and their food choices. I told him that I agree that parents aren't showing their kids unhealthy ways of eating and that it is our job to teach the students the correct ways of eating and being physically active. He responded back saying how he is trying to teach his students healthy food choices, but the school is not helping him. He said he tried to get soda vending machines removed from the school, but other teachers are complaining. One teacher said that it would be learning oppurtunity for students to make healthy food choices. Is it just the physical educators who are supposed to show healthy behaviors or should all teachers work to help save kids lives. If a student is having a problem in subjects other than physical education class I would help the student with those subjects why shouldn't be the same for the other teachers. Teachers should work together instead of contradicting the other teachers' lessons. Anyways the physical education teacher brought up a good point by asking if schools had cigarette vending machines would it also be a good learning oppurtunity for the students to make healthy choices?

Technology in PE

I would like to have some technology in my class. I think it would make the PE class more fun for the students. Technology like DDR and Wii. Hopefully the school that I work in will let try to get some grants for this stuff. I also think a climbing wall would be fun. The walls that move when you climb.

Dancing

In many PE classes dancing is incorporated and the students hate it. For my elementary we had to do square dancing and it was so boring. I think if gym teachers would make up new dances or even let the students make some up it would be much more fun for the students. Square dancing isn't the dance and if we would use more up beat music it might help to make it more fun also. I would like to use dance in my class but I would the students be more interactive and work together to create a dance of their own.

Sickness

It seems that everyone I know has come down with a cold in the past two weeks. I wonder why it seems to this time every year that people start getting colds. I think it is because this is the time of year when the temperature is just right to survive. I have already been sick twice and now I'm still trying to get over my second cold. My whole family back is sick too; even my girlfriend is sick.

Yoga

I think it would be a cool experience to try a yoga class and learn all the moves. I would like to use this in one of my lesson plans. It would help keep the class flexible so they will have less injuries playing sports. This would be fun and relaxing lesson plan to try. It would also help me to become more flexible.