Gym teachers do not necessarily come up with the daily gym games, but are developed from the most popular sports played today by the youth, and student interest.
Miss Weiser,is a middle school gym teacher, joined IMS in 2023. She has been thinking about different gym games that can be played.
She thinks that not not all kids enjoy each of the games played in gym, so the teachers try to switch it up. This often happens when the class is stuck inside due to the weather.
Weiser would like a lot more games outside like kickball and badminton, which they have not played in a while.
“I prefer games outside and I think the kids do, too,” Weiser said. “Being outside provides more options.”
When asked what games she suggested, she said that they should stop using some of the games that they keep using over and over and that they need to come up with something more likely for children to want to play.
Weiser says that she would love to play more games like tug of war so that the students can have fun while playing. Other games like tag they have not played in a good while might be fun.
Weiser said that maybe in the future they might change the games up.
Some kids in the class get tired of playing the scooter games. Some of the reasons for that are because students prefer to be outside and this unit is typically longer.
Most of the students say they do like kickball but they would rather do games like tug of war which they rarely do in their gym class. When they play tug-of-war, Weiser said that the kids really enjoy playing.
