2011 Jog-A-Thon Wrap Up

So the Jog-A-Thon stress has finally come to pass...Thankfully!  Whew, I'm still tired!  The PE classes were a blast to teach.  I was sad that these kids were never taught some of the basic fundamentals of fitness, but I guess that's what happens when you don't have a qualified teacher nor a well designed curriculum to follow.  (see an opportunity for more volunteer hours?  Although, I had accumulated enough before I even started working on JAT stuff!)

The response from the students was wonderful!  They are such sweet kids and rather well mannered compared to public school kids!  I think the event was a success in all areas - teaching, training, and fundraising!

We learned how to calculate our target heart rates then played some DDR to get our heart rates up:

Here are some pics from our pylometric circuit lesson:

You may be wondering what I did with Kendall while I was busy teaching those lessons...She watched movies, played with her friend Roman (thankfully between my friend Vanessa and her college aged daughter, I was able to spend time in classes with few interruptions from Kendall).

We began the JAT day $1000 short of our $13,000 goal.  Thankfully by the end of the day, we exceeded the goal by $99!  We were blessed with a very generous donation from the step brother of two of our students.  He is in his second year playing for the Denver Broncos and came through big time for us!  We were begging and pleading with parents to grab their checkbooks, credit cards and loose change from their cars as they came to cheer on their children while they were running.

There is some great video and photos of our kids on the school website: Grace Lutheran School  Kendall can be seen running with the Preschool 3 class in the We Did It video!  So adorable!

Here are a few pics of Riley and his classmates running:

If you didn't catch the video off of the school's website (there are two, one of the the kids running and one of them practicing DDR), here's the link directly to the event video:   JAT video

Thanks to all of you who supported our school's efforts through monetary donations, listening to me complain over the amount of work or how exhausted I was, and for your words of encouragement.

Grace Lutheran School Mythbusters raised $13,099 in just two weeks!  Whoo Hoo!  Now everyone who turned in money will get a free dress week during the last week of school!  What a great reward for kids who must wear uniforms every day of every week of school!