Math Competion

At the Math Competion today, I did pretty well it was tough but it was fun! i didn't get all of it right but i feel like i did pretty well

I have been doing this activity for all 4 year, i really like it and i will miss it next year when i no longer have the option to continue.

I also have increased awareness of my self because i know my limitations with math and i know where i need to improve.

Gymnastics on Thursday

Gymnastics this thursday was even more fun than it normally is. This is because the team girls were gone so it was only the prep-up team. This meant that I got more attention which resulted with me learning how to do a back tuck. I only started learning so i was still doing it into the pit but it was still really fun! its a lot easier than I thought also.

8. I developed new skills because i was learning how to do a back tuck

Gymnastics on Tuesday

Yesterday I had gymnastics, It was really fun! I really enjoyed it. I was on the bars for about 2 hours. I have gotten really good at my pull overs, I have started working on cast hand stands as well. they are difficult too. I want to learn how to do a flip around the bar at some point. they look really hard.

Then I went to the trampoline. I worked on flips, back flops, and front bounders. I also tried this other thing that sara was doing in order to learn how to do flips. I couldn't do it. but thats ok. I can already do a flip:)

4. I worked with others because I was working with Sara on the trampoloine

Gymnastics on Thrusday

At gymnastics on Thursday, everything went well my hands were still really hurting so I spent most of the time on the trampoline and the tumble track. I worked on my back flop things, front tucks, front bounders, and front handsprings, then on the tumble track I worked on front pikes and also running front tucks. I was successful at everything except for the front pikes. Then I went to floor and worked on aerials, they are really hard. I still didn't go for but I will on thursday!

Developed new skills- have never done a running front tuck

Gymnastics 1-19-10

At gymnastics yesterday, I had a lot of fun! I was on trampoline again, doing the steps to start to learn back tucks, and I was also learning the steps to do side aerials. These are cartwheels without hand! They look pretty easy actually, I almost had it! Then I went to bars and was doing my pullovers again, but when i saw my dad I wanted to show him just one more, and then my hands ripped. I think that it is really bad but the girls who are there do not think that it is bad at all.

I undertook new challenges because of the side aerial.

I also developed new skills, every time I go to gymnastics I learn new skills

Gymnastics on Tuesday

On tuesday I went to gymnastics! It was really fun Like always and I know that I am starting to get into better shape because yes I am still soar today but it is not as bad as it has been in past weeks. Also my hands are getting really tough from being on the bars so much!

I tried to do the pull over again and I got it on my own again but I was on a bar that was much high so it was much harder.

I am increasing my knowledge of my own growth because I am now aware of what I can and cannot do.

I undertook new challenges because I tried to do a pull over on the higher bar which is a lot harder.

Gymnastics Day 2

This year I will be doing gymnastics twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays!

This thursday I learned a new skill ALL BY MYSLEF!!! ( but with some guidance from a 9 year old!) I learned how to do a pull over on the uneven bars. I was so happy when I figured it out!

I was on my own set of bars working on it, but then the little girl Suri was there. I needed more chalk on my hand, it makes your hands feel a lot better. The little girl said to try to keep my head to the bar longer. So i did that the next time and I got it! I was so excited! Suri didn't see it but the girl Kimmy did. She was the girl that I followed around the first day that I went. Kimmy is very nice and also REALLY good at Gymnastics! She seemed really happy for me! I was so excited! I had been working on this skill last year but I couldn't get it! but I got it this time!

I also did other things on Thursday but this was the main achievement that I made!

I worked collaberatly with others because of Suri showing me how to do it!

Also I learned new skills because I learned how to do a pullover!

Here is a link to a pullover online!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkw4G_KAqeo

Gymnastics-The Re-Start

Today I had Gymnastics again, I had not had it in a long time. In fact I thought that I had completed. But i decided that I was going to call them up again and get started again. I am really enjoying it again (well it was really fun while I was there, but now its not because Im so tired and sore... But its most definitely worth it) At Gymnastics, I worked on the bars, with swinging, cast handstands, then I went to the trampoline, it was new so I did flips, and front bounders, and then I went to the "fun" vault, I don't know what it is really called, its the one that I like the best. And last I went to beam and just did the basic stuff.

I have Planed and initiated activities because I had to call them up and ask if I can come back

I have shown perseverance because I have started it up again and I have been doing it a while now.

Math comp.

Last Wednesday, there was another math comp, i didn't do as well as I though. but it was still fun.I think that i only got 3 right but thats still good their are really hard.

I undertook new challenges because they are really hard.

I developed new skills because the math is tricky and now i know how to solve those problems now.

NEMC

Today was the new england math competition- i though that i could have done better but that is ok. I got three out of 6 correct.
I challenged my self with doing the competition also because its math that you rarely ever use. I think that their fun because they are hard problems but they are do-able
also i learned new ways to go about solving difficult math problems.

Mock disaster in Maine

This saturday there is going to me a mock disaster, i just signed up and now i just need to wait till Saturday. whats going to happen is there going to pretend a big boat ran into the dock and crashed and sunk during a sailing lesson. what im going to do is still a little bit unclear, but i do know that i will be made up with make up and stuff to look like i had serious injuries, and also they are going to take some people to hospital in ambulances, and they are going to land a helicopter on the town green. (this is all very exciting for this town because its so small, about 300 people live here year round. and only 4 business)

Gymnastics 7-15

Okay so this week at gymnastics was really fun!!! ( I didn't go last week because i couldn't get a ride home) But yesterday at gymnastics i started to learn how to do a back flip. what i was doing were drills to get it. what i would do is jump then land on my back and then on the rebound bounce i would flip over and land on my feet. It was really fun i did other drills also but i had the most fun with that one!!!
then i did some stuff on beam like trying to do a handstand but i stubbed my toe REALLY bad so now today it hurts to walk. so i got out of doing beam which is my least favorite of the events and then i went to vault which is really fun! probably my favorite. on vault i did the same thing that i did a few weeks ago where you go over the real vault with a little trampoline thing. i had help the first and second times i did it and then i was able to do it all on my own!

I worked together with others because i got help going over the vault and also i was asking people questions if i was doing stuff right and also other people were showing me how to do different things

I also developed new skills because I'm starting to learn how to do a back tuck and that is brand new!

gymnastics

I haven't been going to gymnastics for he past few weeks because of pervious obglations for me but im going again tomorrow, and it will be 6 to 9

Front Layout at Gymnastics

This week at gymnastics I learned how to do a front layout. That is developing new skills because i learned something new. A front layout is a front flip but you are straight in the air like a pencil. I have increased awareness of my strengths because i know that I can now do that, and it was hard, and lastly i undertook new challenges because i had never done that before.

almost getting a pullover

This week at gymnastics was fun, i worked on bars for just about the whole time. I am so close to getting a pullover. I really want to get it, what it is where you pull yourself over the bar so that you are ontop of it. It sounds easy and looks easy but its not. I've been working on it for a while and i cant get it, but its close. I have to get my hips to the bar when i'm upside down instead of my legs.

after bars, we went to floor and did basics, which is going over basic moves, they were all dance things, like jumps and stuff, have never done that stuff before, i think that i like real tumbling better than that stuff.

1 because by almost getting a pullover, i am increasing my knoledge of my groth, everyweek i get closer to getting it.

4 becaue while i'm doing all of these i have to be working collabratly with others, sharing the bars with them, or them showing me how to do something, or them actually helping me do something.

8 because every week i am devloping new skills, a pull over and dance moves this week

New Vault

Two weeks ago at gymnastics was really fun. I did the normal things bars tumble track, and tumbling on the floor! all of the fun stuff. Then i looked over and saw some of the girls that were going over the "real" valut and i asked if i could try and Lesely said "yes!" it was really fun. at first she told me to do a flip over which i didn't because i thought that would be really scary, so i just did what everyone else was doing, like a handstand on it then flipping down. it was really fun i did it three times but then i had to go my mom was waiting.

This hits 1 because, when i learned how to do the new vault i became aware of new streghths of mine, and Lesely said that i was good at it also

2 because i tried a new vault

8, i devloped new skills becaue i have never done that vault before!

Gymnastics before the Blog

Justification--

I am going to be doing gymnastics because i have always wanted to do it. Since watching the Olympics this summer i really wanted to. I really want to be able to do cool tricks and mainly do flips. I think that would be fun because I have always wanted to do a flip. I also want to learn how to do cool tricks on each of the apparatus.

For Goals that I have, I want to be able to do tricks. First I want to learn how to do a back handspring and a back flip. I have no idea if that will be possible becks I don't know how long the trick take to learn.I also want to be able to do a handstand on the beam, for the bars I want to be able to get up onto them, and lastly for vault I want to be able to do a flip on that.

My Learning objectives are Plan and inaciate activity, this applies because I was the one who planned this I will be doing it with two friends. My other learning objective is Increased awareness of my strenght and areas for growth. This applys because i have only done gymnastics when i was really little so i forget everything. I will be getting stronger physically and also mentally by learning my strenghts and weakness.

12/5/08

I started Gymnastics on 2 Thursdays ago and it is so much fun. I really enjoy it except for the fact that it is really hard work and still 2 days after my legs still really hurt to the point that i avoid going down stairs as often as possible. The fist time that i went Lauren was with me also but the second time she was sick so she didn't go and i was all by my self which was scary at first because i didn't know anybody but after a while it was fine. Every one there is so nice!

The first Thursday was the most fun because i had a Friend and also because we did stuff on the bars. like cast handstands which are fun, and other things on the bars. 2 days ago was fun but it was all conditioning and those girls go everyday for 3 hours a lot stronger than me so it was really hard. I'm really excited for next Thursday because i talked to Jen and she said that i can come an hour later so i wont be there for the conditioning stuff but i will be there for the actual gymnastics so i will be able to learn how to do a flip and stuff! I can't wait!

Journal--

December 12, 2008

This is me at gymnastics yesterday doing a handstand thing and then going down into a bridge it is really hard to do and i was able to do it on my third day of gymnastics while the instructor told me that it normally takes gymnasts 6 months to learn.

12-20-08

This is me at gymnastics on Thursday. I learned how to do a front handspring thing. That is were you would bounce on one of the white lines then put you hands on the mat then flip over to land on your feet. It was really fun and i learned how to do it!

So far, so good. Be sure to keep one entry per week. -J. Hyer 1/5/09 1:02 PM

1-11-09

(Sorry I didn't update for 2 weeks because i was not going to gymnastics, i go on thursdays and the past two thursdays were christmas and new years)

On Thursday at gymnastics first i went to Bars and worked on some of the basics, I had thought that i would really like bars but that changed when my hand riped open. It really hurts!

But another thing was that meant that i could go over to beam (which i kind of like) they were working on handstands and cartwheels on the beam. I can not do thoese really on the ground so i was just doing handstads and such on the ground which allowed me to master that handstand down to a bridge that i had been working on before. Then i went to the tumble track (a really long tramplone) and worked on front handsprings again but this time with out the mats at the end!

My mom has been the one taking these pictures and i guess that it is really hard to get a good picture.

1-23-09
This is me at gymnastics last week. I learned how to do a flip. It was hard but really hard.

2-03-09

I didn't go last thursay because I had to go to a funeral. I will go on this thursday though

2-08-09
This Thursday I learned how to do a "tick-tock" (I think that's what its called) I wasn't able to do it like the other girls there but thats just because they are a lot better than me. What it is is when you go into a handstand touch you foot to the floor or in my case the mat that is like a foot or 2 up in the air then kick back down to standing up. Its really hard but its fun.
Another thing that I did was standing up and then into a bridge, thats where your feet and hands are on ground and you back is towards the ground so you are like a bridge. Again I did it onto a mat because i'm not as expereinced as the other girls.
Another thing that i did was another handstand thing. on this little tramploine you jump and then do a handstand on a mats that are like 3 or 4 feet high then you jump bcakwards into the foam pit. it was really fun.
The last thing that I did was handstands and cartwheels on the beam. That is really hard because the beam is just 4 in wide. I was kind of able to do handstands but thats it, not cart wheels becaue i cant do those in a stright line. But i was kind of successuful at a handstand but i was not up all the way at 90 degerees probably like 45 or 50.
Before i left the people who are teaching me were saying that i was good, and were suprised at how fast i was doing things becasue i guess that its harder to do when your tall and i'm really tall, and also its harder to learn when your not like 3.

2-13-09

This was me yesterday at gymnastics. I worked on my flip again. it was fun. I also did vault which was really fun.

2-13-09

Next week I will not be able to go because I will be away surfing.

2-26-09

Yesterday at gymnastics was fun! I learned how to do a flip on the tumble track! thats fun and i also got better at doing front handsprings which are really fun! The other two things that i did was handstands and jumping on the beam. Thats hard stuff! Then they put this fat beam on the ground for me to do more handstands and cartwheels. I can kind of do a handstnad but cartwheels are really hard for me becaue i don't go stright. after that i went to vault and did vaults again which are really fun you jump then do a handstand then land on your back. its fun. I can't wait till next thrusday!

3-9-09
At gymnastics last Thursday i worked a lot on my flips. there is a trampoline and then a tumble track, the tumble track is still really bouncy but not as bouncy as the trampoline. I worked on my flip on the tumble track. I was able to land it standing up with straight legs for the most part. (stright locked legs are bad becaue you can hurt your knees...)
also i worked on vault a little and then i worked on the bars a little after that. I don't like that bars becaue i get really bad blisters on my hands.

3-15-09
On thursday i had gymnastics, and i worked on my flips and front handstands again. I'm getting pretty good or atleast i think so. I land my flip most of the time now and the same with my front handspring. i also asked if i can start to learn a back handspring. and they said yes so i started to do some drills to get that. I also worked on the bars a little bit and a fun drill on the floor which i think was to make your vault better and also one for front handsprings. they were both fun.
Lastly i asked if it would be possible for me to start to come on the weekend due to tennis starting, they said yes but the setup would be really different and i really like how it is now so i am going to keep on trying to come on thrusdays and if there is one that i can't make it to then i will go one the weekends.

3-20-09

Yesterday at gymnastics was really fun! I worked with the prep up girls again. And i like doing that i do that every week though. I am starting to make firends there becaue they are starting to know who i am. Yesterday i worked on the bars and tried to get a pull over which is a way to get ontop of the bar kind of, and i also worked on tap swing which is swinging on the bar just for fun!

then i went to the tramploine and worked on my front tuck which is a front flip. They said that i was really good at it and said that i did it perfict! Then they taught me how to do front bounders which are like front handsprings but by jumping not running. thoses are really fun too! then i did thoses on the tumble track!

I'm looking forward to next week now!

3-29-09
On thursday I went to gymnastics and it was fun. I did all four events i think. i didn't do floor but i did tumbling on the tumble track and on the tramploine. I have masted a front handspring, front flip and front bounders, i think anyway. I think that i have gotten really good at them. I want to learn how to do something else now. I went to the bars and started working a pullover thing, its really hard. then i went to ballance beam and started to do cartwhels and handstands again.i can kind of do a handstand not really though and my cartwheel is bad, i can't do it on the floor so i can't do it on the beam. then i went to tumble track and tramploine and worked more of the flips and that kind of stuff.

4-4-09
Thursday was fun. I really am starting to get to know the other girls there which makes it even more fun. I worked on my front tucks front bounders, front handsprings. I also was able also learn how to do a back bend from standing up. its really hard. One other thing was that our warm up was runing the diagonals on the floor and on end doing a front handspring off of two chese mats and a mini tramp and on the other diagonal you do a front tuck off of a spring board. at the end of practice i was working on cart wheels and roundoffs.

4-11-09
I did not go to gymnastics this week because I hurt my ankle during tennis this week.

5-04-09
This was the first week back at gymnastics in a while. it was fun. i worked out with the older girls again which was fun. I work on the tumble track on my front tuck, front handspring, and front bounders. then we went to bars, were i worked on my pullover, which i still can't do but i'm getting close. then we went to floor where i worked more on my cartwheel. it was fun. i'm looking forward to next week.

(see google docs for the pictures