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(updated 4/23/12)
Cameron 3v3 Basketball Tourney news:
2012 3v3 Cameron Basketball Champions
Grade 8 Boys
1st Place: Mavericks: Yago DeOliveira, Junior Paiva, Zach MacGregor, Eddie Pedroza
2nd Place: Celtics: Lucas Nazareth, John Lagoutaris, Michael Grinnell, Andre Adkins
Grade 8 Girls
1st Place: Storm: Shannon Aurelio, Colleen Myers, Heather Rotatori, Sydney Hajduk
2nd Place: Liberty: Rebecca Martino, Diane Chapin, Krysta Nichols
Grade 7 Boys
1st Place: BYU: Bruno Pereira, Jamie Druker, Gio Aga
2nd place: Syracuse: Justin Dunham, Alex Ramos, Denis Petrov, Dylan Deflorio
Grade 7 Girls
1st place: Tennessee: Shannon Dorsey, Kylie King, Samantha Strassheim, Paige Goldstein
2nd Place: Arizona St: Hannah Cosgrove, Kelsey D’Allessandro, Kara Wright, Erin Saslav
Grade 6 Boys
1st Place: Glouster: Clay Scata, Will Luz, Tommy Reis, James Ross
2nd Place: Hopkinton: Jordan Sarnie, Elias Tsiantoulas, Dylan O’Brien, Tim Driscoll
Grade 6 Girls
1st Place: Concord: Kathryn Nolte, Marisa Moy, Sally Donovan, Franshela Perlera
2nd Place: Walpole: Lindsay Duggan, Jill Rotatori, Mackenzie Lee, Juliana Torres
Cameron Track team participated
in the BAA Relay Challenge 116
on April 14, 2012.
We trained for and ran in the Boston Athletic Association Relay Challenge 116 on Saturday, April 14th, 2012 from 9-3pm. (Yes, that is the first Saturday of April vacation - while others were sleeping in - we were running). The trip to the BAA Relay Challenge is the highlight of our track season. The running events are 10 person relay races -each runner races 300 meters. We meet the elite adidas runners. We stretch, run in the races, receive medals, have lunch, and get prizes. We also visited the Finish Line of the Boston Marathon and took pictures.
Thank you to the family members of Kemuel, Evan, Maicon, and Emma and Alex, who chaperoned for the trip to the BAA.
We met Geoffry Mutai, the 2011 Boston Marathon winner, and two other Kenyan Marathon runners after the event. We took a couple of pictures with him. It was exciting to meet him and wish him good luck.
The All Star runners for the BAA Relay Challenge are Tyler Hall, Albert Arena, Emma Lowry, and Leanna Salgado. These runners ran in a very competitive relay race with the total distance equaling one mile.
Four Cameron runners competed in the BAA Invitational Middle School 1K on Sunday, April 15th. These four runners, Philip Salla, Tyler Hall, Janiece Edwards, and Katrena Tiano, ran the 1K race with other runners from the towns along the marathon route. The 1K route was two times around a city block finishing on the Boston Marathon Finish Line.
TRACK will continue to meet on Tuesdays and maybe Thursdays from 2:55-4:15. Practices will involve stretching, warming up, running distances and running relays. Join our Track program.
Come and run with us. It's great exercise and a lot of fun.
Questions? See Mrs. Dauer
FITNESSGRAM
During the year, students will work on various fitness components in Physical Education (PE). We are hoping that students will work on the fitness exercises at home and thus share the PE information with family and friends.
Let's talk about PUSH-UPS. Are you working on your push-ups? All Cameron Middle School students start -taking responsibility for your fitness level. All students should be doing some push-ups, sit-ups, and some cardiovascular exercise at home every day.
Are you able to straight body push-ups?
Can you do modified push-ups= bent knee push-ups?
How long can you do the plank exercise? 30 seconds? 45 seconds 10 seconds? test yourself.
How did you do on the Pacer Practice Test?
Think about your strengths. If you have good upper body strength and are good at push-ups because you do a lot of push-ups, keep doing them. Do more to improve the number that you can do.
Are you good at sit-ups/curl-ups? Can you do 30 -50 sit-ups (also called bent knee curl-ups)? If you have difficulty doing sit-ups, do them in sets of smaller numbers: do 5, then 5 more, then 5 more, and so on until you are doing 20. As you get warmed up your muscles will work more fluidly.
If you are thinking, "I would like to be better at push-ups. I wish that I could do more, I can't do push-ups very well," then get to it. Start today doing push-ups -either straight body or bent knee, or even wall push-ups. Just get started! You can improve your upper body strength, it just takes work every day. Make yourself a chart to check off when you do them. Keep at it. We will be noting progress in class on index cards. Remember that fitness takes effort and time. Physical Education classes meet 1x or 2x/6 day cycle so you need to work on exercises outside of school. Make an effort for several weeks and results will follow.
You can do this same strategy with curl-ups/sit-ups. Do bent knee curl-ups every day. Try to do about 20 every day. Work up to doing more sets of these exercises. Do them in the morning and then again at night. If 20+ is easy for you then set a higher number as your target number, keep doing them every day.
Work on improving your flexibility. In free moments, you may be sitting inside wondering what to do: stretch! Stretch your hamstrings in the sit and reach position. Both left and right side. Remember the stretch when I had you lie down on your back, extending your leg towards the ceiling and drive your heel towards the ceiling? Try that one! ooh good and bad pain at the same time. Then, stretch your shoulders as in the Shoulder Flex Test- we do touching your fingers behind your back.
Cardiovascular fitness is my last focus point. With colder winter weather, activities for many people are moving inside. It is a bit harder to exercise outside because of the cold weather and the darkness. When you get home from school, play outside for a bit while it is still light. Do exercises that keep you moving and running as the activity helps increase and improve your heart rate = your cardiovascular fitness. If you can't get outside, dance in the house, run up and down the stairs, actively clean your home (that will help your family too.) See if you can keep moving for 35-45 minutes at a session.
Think about running or walking on the weekends. Suggest a family walk.
Stay after school to play the intramural activities: 2:55-4:15. (when they are in session)
See Mrs. Dauer with Questions. Email or call me at school. kdauer@framingham.k12.ma.us
Bravo to all our students who continuously come to Physical Education class this year ready with gym clothes and sneakers. You all know who you are! Mr. Kelberman and I are very pleased with your excellent preparation. Keep up the great effort and preparation!
"Instant activity" is available to every student as soon as he/she is ready in gym wear and sneakers. This instant activity is reward enough for many students as they can get moving immediately.
All students should be prepared for Physical Education which includes having sneakers, socks or peds, shorts, T-shirt. If you are wearing clothes like this to school, you do not have to change into other clothes for PE class. If you do need to change, use the locker rooms and change quickly- we allow 2-3 minutes for this. Many students bring their gym wear to school in a small gym tote or bag so that carrying stuff to PE class is easier. Some students wear shorts under their jeans and change quickly out of their jeans in the locker room.
Students/Parents/Guardians: LABELING your (student's) gym clothes and sweatshirts helps us get lost items back to them when clothing is left in the gym or locker room. The labeling includes labeling books, folders, notebooks, etc. When we find leftover belongings we try to get it returned it to that student. Please label items. It is so easy to return items to students when the items are LABELED CLEARLY! It is very hard to return items that are not labeled. The unlabeled items seem to pile up unclaimed. :(
Extra sneakers around the house? Extra out grown shorts?
We have a supply of loaner sneakers to for students to borrow for the class (when students come without.) If you or your child outgrows shorts or sneakers, donate them to Cameron PE Dept. We will use them as loaners or hand-me-downs to students who need some. If the sneakers, still fit, have your child keep them in his/her school academic locker, so he/she has the sneakers ready for action in PE.
Donations of gently used sneakers, shorts, sweatpants, t-shirts, even socks (pairs or mismatched) can be dropped off at school throughout the school year addressed to Mrs. Dauer, PE Dept. and thank you in advance.
CLOTHING GUIDELINES:
SNEAKERS- laced and worn with socks or peds, tied so that they stay on when you run, no platform, no slip-ons, no wheelies.
SHORTS - athletic shorts with flexible fabric are best. Other shorts such as jean shorts or cargo shorts are OK. Just be sure that you can move freely. If when you jump up or run, you have to hold onto your shorts to keep them up, then they are not appropriate for PE unless you belt them. School dress code clarifies that underwear should not be visible. Sweat pants are also acceptable for PE.
SHIRTS - T-shirts are best. School dress code clarifies that underwear should not be visible. Please no low cut shirts or low cut armholes. Underwear "A" shirts are not acceptable.
FOR COOLER days: The addition of sweat pants and wind pants are acceptable for PE anytime as also as the weather get cooler. Clarification: Shorts can include cargo shorts and jean shorts, but long pants do not include school pants - cargo pants, long jeans, long pants of corduroy, etc. Having a sweatshirt or jacket for when we go outside is great.
Cleats for football or soccer (in season): Rubber cleats can be brought in to use in PE, yet are not allowed to be worn in the building. Generally students carry the cleats to the field and put them on there.
Moving and having fun while learning is a goal in PE class. We know that moving actively also increases physical fitness, so Mr. K and I are looking for our Cameron students (and families) to be aware of their activities. We will be checking in to see what our students are doing for activities outside of PE. We want our students to move at least 60 minutes per day in some form of physical activity. It could be walking, biking, hiking, walking the dog, swimming, dancing, raking leaves, shoveling snow, stacking wood, vacuuming, playing soccer, skating, doing sit-ups, doing push-ups, etc. Get the idea - play, move, ..have fun while exercising.
Seven days without exercise makes one weak. Get out and take a walk, a winter hike, ski, ride, play, etc. It's good for you.
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Leadership and teamwork are demonstrated when using the Buddy Walkers. |
FITNESSGRAM
The FITNESSGRAM is an assessment tool made up of a variety of components used in Physical Education (PE) classes to measure each student's fitness level each year. During trimester three, testing will take place in PE classes. Please note that these assessments are used to define areas of a person's strengths and also areas on which a person needs to work. The FITNESSGRAM plays on wording similar to "telegram" as the end result is a printed report personalized for each student -with each student's test results correlated to that student's age, gender, height, and weight. The FITNESSGRAM report is mailed home with the student's year end report card.
| TEST | Fitness Assessment Tool Information |
| Pacer Test | Cardiovascular/aerobic fitness |
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Curl-ups |
Abdominal strength |
| Push-ups | Upper body strength |
| Sit and Reach | Flexibility left leg and right leg |
| Trunk Lift | Back Strength |
| Shoulder flexibility |
Flexibility of back + shoulders
left shoulder + right shoulder |
| Male or female | |
| Age | |
| Height and weight | Current data |
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Skin Fold measurements
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Approximate skin fold measures
taken on inside of right calf |
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Recent Activity Survey # of cardio days # of flexibility days # of strength days |
The number of days per week that you have been active 30-60 minutes or more per day. The number of days per week that you stretch and work on your flexibility. The number of days per week that you worked on strength
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