First meeting..

I met with my student for the first time on Friday December 17th. When he arrived he had just had swim practice at the college pool, so he was tired. I created a poster and at the top is his physical activity goal, which is going to be, "be a better football player." Under the dream is listed four goals that will work toward the dream and for every goal he achieves he gets a reward, ex) Hiking at Lime Hallow. I also created a "playbook," which is a notebook compiling all the things we worked on this semester for reference later after the program is over. In the first section of the notebook, is the exercises we do and learn in class. Last meeting we did exercises you can do with a rope, ex) jump rope, jump rope push ups and ski jumpers. This was to show him you don't need fancy equipment to get a work out. The next section is our step log, we will be wearing pedometers to record the amount of steps we take every lesson. He learned that you need to take at least 10,000 steps a day! We took 3,501 steps during our meeting on Friday! The next section is football plays that we will learn this semester that I had photocopied out of my football notebook. The last section is a behavior log, he gets a sticker at the end of the lesson if he behaved the entire lesson.

When we started we did the warm up, but he said he was really tired from swim class and did not really try in the warm up. Next we worked on catching and throwing which he is pretty good at! However, we noticed that one thing we need to work on is punting and it will be one of our goals this semester. Next, we ran some plays and tried to reach 10 successful plays with out dropping a pass. Lastly, I placed hoops on the wall in which he had to throw the football to the middle of the hoop color I called out. After we were finished I took him on a tour around park center and the field house so he gets an idea of other activities we can do this semester. We will be meeting again on Tuesday!