Healthy Otter Corner

Coach Kris Shetter:  kshetter@powayusd.com

Coach Kris Shetter joined the Shoal Creek staff in November 2010.  She is a softball coach with Penasquitos Girls Softball  and has two daughters in Poway Unified School District.

Help Active Kids Avoid Heat Stress Kids' bodies do not adapt to hot weather (above 95 degrees F/35 degrees C, and/or high humidity) as well as adults do.  Teens are somewhere in the middle.  To prevent heat stress and dehydration in your child or teen, follow this advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics and make sure your child's coaches and counselors are following it too. 

*  For activities lasting 15 minutes or more (such as sports practices or games, or outdoor summer camp activities), reduce intensity levels when heat or humidity is high.

*  If kids are starting a new, strenuous exercise program (say, football practice begins for the year) or have just traveled to a warm climate, they need to acclimate slowly.  Limit the intensity and duration of exercise and gradually increase it over 10 to 14 days.

*  Before prolonged physical activity, kids should be well hydrated.  During the activity, kids should take frequent water breaks.  A child weighing 90 pounds needs 5 ounces of cold tap water or a flavored sports drink every 20 minutes, even if he does not feel thirsty.

*  Clothing should be light-colored and lightweight and limited to one layer of absorbent material to help sweat evaporate.  Sweat-saturated shirts should be replaced by dry clothing.

*  Practices and games played in the heat should be shortened and more frequent water/hydration breaks should be instituted.

Otters on the Move!

Welcome to the Shoal Creek PE program!  Each day students are having fun while getting fit.  Check back often for the latest in what's happening at PE!

Be Prepared For PE! Make sure your student is dress appropriately for their PE days.  Tennis shoes, comfortable clothing and no skirts or dresses please!

Try these exercises at home! Click here for a list you can print out of exercises to do at home - Otter Pilates Check out these workout routines designed by students!  Otter Workouts

What's Happening Now In PE

Grades K-2:  These classes have done a great job learning how to catch and throw!  Now it's time to learn how to kick and strike balls.  We'll use soccer, baseball, and tennis-type skills to make learning fun! 

Grades 3-5: What a great group of volleyball players we have!  These students just finished setting, bumping, and serving for some exciting games.  We're now on to a modified version of Over the Line.  Students will learn how to hit off a tee and catch fly balls.  They have been put into teams and selected their team spirit names.  Let's play ball!

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