Health Fair

Dear Parents/Guardians:

Your Steller 8th grade health class is hosting an extravagant health fair on Wednesday March 4th. This health fair will involve the whole school in a day of health related activities. The day will look like this:

  • 8:30-9:00- healthy breakfast in advisory groups. We will need your help here with providing food, items such as fresh fruit (no bananas), yogurts, low sugar cereals, milk, juice, breads etc.
  • 9:10-9:40- First session.
  • 9:50-10:20- Second session
  • 10:30-11:00- Third session
  • 11:10- 11:40- Fourth session
  • LUNCH
  • 12:40-1:10- Fifth session
  • 1:20-1:50- Sixth Session
  • BACK TO ADVISORY GROUPS- healthy snacks and surveys (we need help with healthy snacks here as well, items such as celery, peanut butter, fruit, juice, etc.

So far, we have a chiropractor coming for all six sessions, a sexual health specialist, an organ donation specialist, and a teenage mental health specialist. We hope to also have a nutritionist, emergency room doctor, optometrist, acupuncturist, physical therapist, dentist, dermatologist, hair specialist, Alaska Lung association, and also a yoga instructor.  Please let Shannon know via email (herda_shannon@asdk12.org) or phone (907 440 2522)  if you might be able to help provide for any of these topics or just feel like volunteering in any other way throughout the day.

Sincerely, Shannon and the Steller Health class of 2009.