"One Thing" for Mon. Apr. 14

Track Attack started at our school today. My kids absolutely love it! They get to go outside, run, jump and throw and generally have a great time. At Diefenbaker, we do have eight stations to rotate through and do three of them on the first sunny day of the week (like today), another three on the second sunny day and finish with 2 on the third sunny day. Some schools do it differently, but most follow the same guidelines.

Why do we do it? Well, besides promoting fitness and being active (and if there is one thing I would change if I could, it would be having the students moving and running more and standing less-while waiting for others to do the given event) the purpose is to record distances and times so that when we plan for which students are going to be in which events at the zone track meets we can figure out who those should be plus ensure that students get an equal number of events that they are able to participate in.

This year, our zone meet is on Thursday May 15th (at Minoru, of course). This year we will again be taking grade 3 students (my daughter is in grade 3 at Gilmore and she is excited to be going for the first time too!). It can be an exciting day, but students are encouraged to make sure they are eating healthy and not simply spending the entire day in the concession line!!


Here are a couple of shots from Minoru last year:

I was a proud dad after my son finished his high jump doing the best he could do. Which was great because we had even been practising in the Diefenbaker gym!!