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Physical Education Assignment

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L.O Journal Portfolio Task – Physical Education

08 April 2016 – Group Discussion
Today in class we were given this assignment and told to choose our own group. I do not feel that excited about doing this assignment because we have already done a similar assignment last year in grade 11. Today we began to brainstorm ideas about what dances we could do, some of which included: Hip-Hop, Irish Dancing, Line Dancing and other various dance styles. I do not think that this assignment would be too difficult but it would have some challenges as every assignment does. Today we managed to brainstorm quite a few ideas so we had many options of dance styles we could choose from. I didn’t find brainstorming relatively challenging but I did find agreeing …show more content…

We then decided to only do stomp dancing which left us back at square one. We basically went one step forward, three steps back. We now have to research and find moves and routines that we can use. I think that this entire task is not very useful portraying physical education. From what I could see my group is the furthest behind while other groups already seem to have a dance routine and are practicing the moves. After much discussion we all decide that we should research as much as we can during the holidays after the exams and then we can finalise our dance routine and practice it. I believe there has also not been any physical health gain for this assignment so far except for the research my group has done. There is no potential benefit that I can see coming from todays …show more content…

We practiced very hard today and I feel that we have accomplished a lot. Today we ran through our dance routine and the only problem I noticed was our lack of timing and some co-ordination issues but I feel proud of what my group has accomplished. After running through our routine I found that all the moves were relatively easy and simple to do, all I need to do is practice more but I am confident I can do them well. There is some decent physical activity that I did while practicing today and feel that actually may be beneficial for my health. Todays practice, I found, to be only slightly beneficial for me but if I had to be honest I would say that there are other assignments that we could have done that might be a lot more beneficial to me personally and physically than this assignment that we have been given for the second

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