September 1, 2015!

Great work at running club today! Runners got to practice pacing and distance as well as sprinting and relay races. We loved ending our day with a cool down game of Across the Ocean. Each week, we will be awarding 2 runners the Character Trait of the Week Award! Congratulations to our winners this week for having great enthusiasm! 4th Grader, Arjun and 3rd Grader Shea. Way to go!

Tshirts: $10

This money is due to Ms. Harkey or Mrs. Lipetzky by Tuesday, September 8th. We will not order the shirts until then!

If you did not get a chance to sign up this fall, the sign up form will be active 9/2/15-9/7/15 for late sign ups. Form can be found here 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bWeBOEaH1s2fyCmSh0f9gDHdt7dYSTARmdRKTItdlJA/viewform?usp=send_form

An opportunity...
Message from Ms. Koester:

"September is Childhood Cancer awareness month. St. Judes is hosting their annual walk on September 26th.  In Micah's honor we have started a Brassfield team.  I thought this would be a great way for all of us to be able to come together and support his family and be able to come together as a school community.  If you are interested in joining us for the walk follow the link below: The team name is Brassfield Elementary.  

http://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/Walk/Walk?pg=entry&fr_id=40416

If you are unable to attend but would still like to donate, here is the link:

https://fundraising.stjude.org/site/Donation2?idb=0&PROXY_TYPE=20&PROXY_ID=3589925&df_id=3000&3000.donation=form1&FR_ID=40416&s_locale=en_US&et=RcCMtyUPEA-_rLXHgNMfww&s_tafId=266950&sc_cid=emh9015" 

First Running Club of the Year!

Tomorrow we will be kicking off the Fall 2015 Running Club season! We will be ordering t-shirts very soon, so please get your $10 in to Mrs. Lipetzky or Ms. Harkey as soon as you can! We look forward to seeing you out at the track tomorrow from 3:45-4:45. Students, please report to the end of the 3-5 hallway to check in with Mrs. Lipetzky before going out to the track.

Remember, running club pickup will take place in the front of the school in the carpool lot at 4:45. Runners, don't forget to bring your water bottle! 

If you still need to sign up, here is the link! We will be closing sign ups tonight!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bWeBOEaH1s2fyCmSh0f9gDHdt7dYSTARmdRKTItdlJA/viewform?usp=send_form

See you out there!

Last running club of 2014-15

We will be having our last running club this Wednesday. We have enjoyed running with all of our 3-5 runners this season. We have continued to grow in our endurance, effort and speed.

Our runners at the 5k on Saturday. They all did a fantastic job on a hilly course that wasn't the most well marked course...my favorite line was a the course volunteers asked a few runners if they knew where to go and they pointed to me and said "we just follow him".. unfortunately I didn't study the course map (oops). 

May 13th Running Club

This week's running club was a little toasty. Congrats to Maddy and Molly for showcasing respect to others and yourself this week.

This week we will be focused on being unselfish. Looking forwarded to seeing our runners on Wednesday. 

Third running Club Meeting

We survived the rain scare and had a productive running club this week. We have increased our warm up run to about 3/4 of a mile around the school. This week's focus was "Playing Fair" congrats to Gabrielle and Anderson for exhibiting this character trait the most according to our coaches. We worked in three stations this week. The stations were running games, obstacle course (plyometrics) and Go Noodle (aerobic exercise). We reminded the students the importance of bring their water bottles.  Next week we are focusing on encouragement. Happy Running!

Week 2 of Spring '15

We had a great second running club. We were working on "effort". Taylor and Jacob were the two students that stood out to the coaches for providing effort in their warm ups, races and during all events.  We completed a .65 mile run for a warm up run with stretching following the run. The students completed a 1/4 mile timed run to create groups. Based on the students feedback it sounds like they prefer the 1/2 mile timed run.  Next week we will be working on "playing fair" with some running games and races.

First Running Club

We have completed our first running club of the spring season. Our focus for today was ENTHUSIASM! We were very excited about running today! We completed our warm up lap around the school which is about 1/2 mile.  We did stretches and completed interval work. We cooled down with some lively games of across the ocean. Congratulations to Sloane and Breckin for being our 2 students that showed the most positive enthusiasm for the running club.  Next week we will focus on EFFORT!