Coach Wagenknecht's Top Gun for the week of December 8th

Congratulations to David on being selected as one of Sperreng PE's Top Guns! His picture will be featured on the Top Gun board! He received the award for scoring an unbelievable goal in scooter hockey and being an unbelievably awesome person!

Coach Hilton'sTop Gun Student of the Week

Congratulations to Nick on being selected coach Coach Hilton's Top Gun Athlete of the week. Nick Always displays great character in class and is a leader in the class. A great example of this is when he offered to give up his spot in the pool. Great job Nick!

Coach Hilton's TOP GUN award winner for the week of 12.1 to 12.5

Robert has done an outstanding job in health. His attitude and approach to assignments and assessment have allowed him to maintain an outstanding grade for our time in health.  Robert is also a great role model to his fellow classmates in terms of how he handles himself in class.

Coach Wagenknecht's Top Gun for the week of December 1st

Congratulations to Blase on being selected as one of Sperreng PE's Top Guns! His picture will be featured on the Top Gun board!

PickleBall Champions!!!!!!

America's Fastest Growing Sport is PickleBall....maybe some of those pictured below will be a future champion for the US! For now, they will settle for being the PickleBall champion of Coach Wagenknecht's PE class.

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Whats a GLE? It's not a TV show....

I wanted to take a moment to communicate the educational goals of health. For each unit, the state of Missouri had set what are called grade level expectations or gle's.   The state has gle's for every subject in every grade, they help to ensure that students are progressing in their understanding of a subject.  In my health class students are pre and post tested to ensure they understand the gle for each unit and to determine how far they have progressed in their understanding of a unit. All activities for each unit are designed to support this effort.  For example of the the gle's for the unit of consumer health and safety is identify health-related careers. Today we are exploring what types of services various medical professionals provide. Check back to see how we are addressing gle's going forward in health class.

Its Alive!!!

During a lesson in 6th hour on the gle, understand the effect of the collaboration of individuals, communities and government can have on the health of a community, while explaining what the purpose of a district was i.e. Lindbergh school district and Mehlville fire protection district. If you look you can see a representation of the Mississippi river, St Louis city and St. Louis county you can even see Lindbergh school district and Mehlville fire protection district. The students said it looked like a face so I added an eye and hair.  Alex asked if he could draw a body and I told him as long as it fit in with the gle. Part of what we discussed with the gle was community recycling so here he is. It is fun to see how students can conceptualize information and I was take the opportunity to reinforce the gle.

Video Games in Health?

One of the tool we use in health to master the grade level expectations is a website called studystack. Studystack allows me to make games with the terms and essential concepts for class. here is a game from the nutrition unit. Feel free to play, have fun...and learn.

Coach Hilton's Top Gun Student for December 1st-5th

This week's Top Gun student of the week is Nedim. He usually goes a above and beyond in health but today he took that effort and service minded attitude one step further helping a student read through an assignment. Nedim is a great example of being motivated to help others.

Coach Hilton's Top Gun of the Week 11.17 to 11.21

Congradulations to Tim for being selected Coach Hilton's Top Gun PE and Health student of the week. Tim always goes above and beyond in PE and Health. He also demonstrated great character and self control in class.

Coach Wagenknecht's Top Gun for the Week of November 17th

Congratulations to Alex on being selected as one of Sperreng PE's Top Guns! His picture will be featured on the Top Gun board!

Coach Wagenknecht's Top Gun for the Week of November 10th

Congratulations to Blaine on being selected as one of Sperreng PE's Top Guns! His picture will be featured on the Top Gun board!

Structure and Function of the Body Projects

The guys have been learning about the structure and function of the body in health class.  Each group recorded an audio clip that relates to a grade level expectation or gle for this unit. I have uploaded them according to their hour. Not bad for their first attempt. 

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Top Gun PE student of the Week November 17th to 21st

Luke was selected as Top Gun PE student athlete of the week. Luke demonstrates self control in class in dealing with conflicts. He also has done a great job both in PE and Health as a leader and a helper in class. Congratulations Luke!

Top Gun Award Winner Week of November 3rd

Eddie was selected as the the Top Gun student of the week. Eddie earned this award for always giving great effort in PE. He also shows great leadership and character when working with other students. Great job Eddie!

Coach Wagenknecht's Top Gun for the Week of November 3rd

Congratulations to Cris on being selected as one of Sperreng PE's Top Guns! His picture will be featured on the Top Gun board!

Handball Champions!!!

Coach Wagenknecht's classes engaged in a heated handball tournament. Those who weathered the storm and came out victorious are pictured below.

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2nd and 5th Hour champions not pictured.

Pickleball Champs!

The last two weeks my class has been playing racket sports. We held our Pickleball tournament and crowned our champions (just like pickles here). Check back to see who the champs were for each hour.

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Soccer Champs!

The guys have been working to develop their understanding of the sport of soccer as well as improving their skills for the last couple of weeks. Today they will play in the finals of the PE soccer tournament. All of the students have done a great job and put for solid effort during this unit. Check back throughout the day to see the championship team for each hour.

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Football Unit

For the past two weeks the my classes have been doing a great job learning the essential skills related to football. The students have made a great deal of progress in their ability to preform the motor skills and techniques related to flag football and are also having a lot of fun. Today we are playing the championship games. The winning teams will be posted here each hour.

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Welcome Back for 2014 and Heat Information

I hope everyone is settling in well with the new school year. Coach and I are very excited to get back into the swing of things with the guys. We recently completed fitness testing and will be posting some information about that soon. We wanted to let you know what kind of precautions we are taking regarding heat. We have a cooling station with a tent shelter and ice water towels to cool off with in addition to ice water and allowing the students to go into the locker room to get a drink. We use the following chart to determine what activities we can do outside when there is excessive heat: 

Heat index of 80-90 degrees:  Classes may occur with scheduled water breaks.

Heat index of 90-100 degrees:  Classes will continue with increased water breaks, limited conditioning, and time in shaded areas with cool down stations.

Heat index of 100-105 degrees:  Classes moved to cooler time of the day (morning or evening hours if possible), very limited to no conditioning, with frequent water breaks and time in shaded areas with cool down stations.

Heat index of 105 degrees or above:  Classes will be moved inside with regular water breaks.  (If in a non-air conditioned facility, there will be an increased frequency of water breaks.)

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us. 

Roller Skating Fun

Coach Hilton's classes will be roller skating today and tomorrow. Just another reminder that we will swim next week and I suggest that the guys bring in their swim gear tomorrow. 

March Madness in February?

Today Coach Hilton's classes will be playing a Sperreng version of March Madness...in February. The tournament is the culmination of our PE unit which needed to be spread out due to snow days. I will post the top three team's photos on the blog feel free to check back during the day to see the to three teams in each class. 

On a side note Coach Hilton's classes will swim the week of March 10th and I am encouraging the guys to bring in their swim gear next week. As always feel free to let me know if you have any questions and have a great weekend. 

1st Hour Top Three Teams

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4th Hour Top Three Teams 

 5th Hour Top Three Teams

 6th Hour Top Three Teams

Thank You J Robinson

J Robinson is the head coach of the University of Minnesota wrestling team which is one of the best in the nation year in and year out. In PE, before we get into our activity most days we will do some kind of work out. These workouts are targeted at improving the guys fitness testing scores.  One of the workouts we do are called JRobs named for coach Robinson, the workout is quick, intense and does a great job of improving shuttle times as well as helping with overall body strength. The guys continue to do a great job and as always feel free to let me know if you have any questions comments or concerns.