Author: Michael Theisen

This week we are finishing up our Badminton unit.  We are starting our tournaments and having students work together in partners to build sportsmanship. This week all late assignments are due.  So please check your grade and send in anything that is late immediately. Also remember when checking Student Connect that if you were absent…

Today is Mr. Lipka’s last day teaching in the classroom. He will continue grading the fitness projects and finish up some other business before he moves on. I hope that your student enjoyed their time with him and learned something in the process. I wish him the best and hope that he will stop by…

We are finishing up our Fitness Unit and will be starting Racquet sports next week. This unit will be primarily structured around Badminton (unless I get our tennis nets in that I ordered.) Students will learn and practice a variety of skills that they need to play most racquet sports. Fitness projects are due today….

Here are some Zumba students! Zumba

This week Mr. Lipka is teaching Zumba to the students. Say they are exercising, working out, improving cardio vascular endurance and learning a dance move or two. After the holiday we start our fitness testing. It is important that your student practices the fitness stations at home and works on improving their health. Next Monday…

1. Push-ups 2. Sit-ups 3. Shuttle Run 4. Plank 5. Chin-ups 6. Squats 7. Wall sit 8. Bicep Curls 9. Shoulder Press 10. Jump Rope 11. Russian Twists 12. Overhead Press 13. Crab Walk 14. Bear Crawl 15. Box Jumps 16. Agility Ladders 17. Jog 18. Wall Ball 19. Burpees 20. Lunges

This weekend all students need to start their Fitness Goals that are on my google classroom page. If they don’t start this weekend they will be unable to put in the proper amount of time to be successful for their goal. In class this week I have created about 20 stations that the students have…

This week we are starting fitness and working on our cardiovascular endurance/muscular strength. All students will start working on their fitness goals that I hope will be lifelong. Intramurals will start up Monday (football) from 3-3:45pm. Also starting today 11/15 Mr. Lipka my student teacher will be taking over full classroom duties. He has been…

Monday (11/13) there will be no intramurals because Parent-Teacher conferences will be taking place. Intramurals will resume the following week on 11/20 3-3:45pm.

Well this week we had some nice running weather and received some great times for the mile run. Many students put up the best times of their young careers. I am very proud of them for their work on this. We had a great effort by all our students and STEM looked strong. Next week…