The PE Update blog provides a wide variety of topics regarding exercise, PE, sportsmanship, and anything else remotely related. Most of the posts are from the Dick Moss, the editor of PE_Update.com. Here is my favorite post so far: Teachers receive excuse notes. Lots of them But the excuse notes for physical education class can be the most creative and entertaining of all. Here are some examples of actual excuse notes from parents—including the original spelling—collected by schools from all over the country.

• My son is under a doctor’s care and should not take P.E. today. Please execute him.
• Please excuse Joanne for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.
• Please excuse Stephanie from Jim today. She is administrating.
• Please excuse Sam from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday he fell out of a tree and misplaced his hip.
• Mike has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face.
• Brad was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hurt in the growing part.
• Dana could not come to school today because she has been bothered by very close veins.
• Please excuse Jim Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.
• Please excuse Albert for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea and his boots leak.
• Brent was absent yesterday because he missed his bust.
• Please excuse Andrew for being. It was his father’s fault.
• Please excuse Kim for missing school yesterday. We forgot to get the Sunday paper off the porch, and when we found it Monday, we thought it was Sunday.
• Please excuse Darren for not being in school yesterday. His father is gone and I could not get him ready because I was in bed with the doctor.

I was crackin’ up reading some of these!

All in all, this guy Dick Moss does a great job of a well rounded blog, keeping it full of PE success stories, his thoughts on legislation’s effects on PE, and obviously some posts to keep us laughing.

The New Jersey Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (NJAHPERD) blog provides pertinent news regarding PE in NJ and the US. Posts discuss Obama’s plans to battle obesity, information on upcoming NJAHPERD conventions, and nationwide child exercise programs.

The NYT > Education blog is the New York Times feed of all its education related articles. All articles from the online news section are fed to this blog. Therefore, it provides an extensive range of topics regarding national and regional news. Topics include how to educate an aging brain, the cost of college, and why it will soon be harder to earn an ‘A’ at your high school. I found the blog interesting because not only does it provide applicable national news, it also provides news from a non-familiar region so that I may compare to what is going on in Maryland.