Welcome to our 5-2-1-0 Blog

To encourage physically active and healthy lifestyles, OTES families and students are encouraged to participate in the 5-2-1-0 program. The purpose of this program is to increase physical activity and healthy eating in the school environment and at home. Use this site to support your efforts at home and see what we're doing to encourage healthy choices at school

Sunday, September 30, 2012

10 Tips for Kids

Here's great website to continue to think about how to keep kids healthy---10 tips to healthy kids. Everything here makes great sense! You can do it!
http://www.eufic.org/article/en/expid/10-healthy-eating-tips-kids/

Monday, September 24, 2012

Great Resources for Parents

We visit the "Let's Go" site to find lots of information and ideas about the 5-2-1-0 program for our school. Here's a copy of the website for your family to bookmark and use throughout the school year.
http://www.letsgo.org/in-your-community/resources-for-parents/

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Healthy Kids at OTES

Visit this site to get some great information about keeping your child healthy and attending school





http://www.livinghealthyschools.com/clean_cover_contain.html

Saturday, September 8, 2012

5-2-1-0 Continues at OTES

2--Cut screen time to two hours or less each day
1--Participate in at least one hour of moderate to vigorous physical activity every day.
0--Restrict soda and sugar-sweetened sports and fruit drinks.  Instead, drink water and 3-4 servings/day of fat-free/skim or 1% milk.