January 2026

Jan 6th- Jan 8th: 🛴🛴🛴

This week in PE...

First of all...HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I hope everyone had a great two weeks off for Winter Break! Now that we are back at school we started the year off by reviewing PE rules and expectations. With the remaining time of class on Monday & Tuesday, we played 2-way Castle Ball. Students were trying to throw a foam ball and knock down the other team's 3 hula hoop castles. This is one of our favorite PE games to play at NYOS right before and after breaks. 

Kindergarten played a tag called called Toilet Tag before they learned about Castle Ball for the first time! When you are tagged, you turn into a toilet and have to get down on one knee and hold your arm out. Another player who has not yet been tagged must run over to you, and push your arm down (flush you) so you can turn back into a human!

On Thursday, all classes K-5 got to try a scooter relay race. A school donated these scooters to us so they are new for students to use this year! We taught everyone how to ride the scooter safely. For this game, one person would sit on the scooter and one person would stand behind them and push the student across the gym where bean bags were spread out. The student in the scooter had to grab one bean bag and bring it back to their team. Whoever collected the most bean bags was crowned winner of the round! 

Since these scooters use your feet for control, unfortunately our kindergarten students were not tall enough to use them, so we used our square OG scooters with them! We still had a ton of fun and it is always good energy and fun when we bring out scooters of any kind!

Jan 20th - 22nd: 🏳️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️

This week in PE...

It was a short week because of MLK Day. K-1st grade did stations. They had soccer station, jump rope station, hula hoop station, or scoop throwing station. 

2nd-5th grade played Flag Tag. The goal of this game is to get as many flags as possible by grabbing them off of the belts of people on other color teams. This game uses running, chasing, dodging, and fleeing skills. 

Sorry for the lack of variety of photos this week! I was really focused on refereeing the game so I kept forgetting to take more photos!!!