Germs, Germs, Germs

This week during large group we talked about germs and why it’s important to wash our hands. Ms. Amanda/Bee told us about why we need to wash our hands—so we don’t spread germs and spread sickness. She showed us how germs spread from one person to the next by sneezing glitter germs onto her hand and then she shook all of our hands. The glitter germs spread from her hand to everyone’s hand! Yuck! We then talked about when we need to wash our hands and practiced sneezing or coughing into our elbows. Ms. Amanda/Bee coughed towards us without covering her cough and sprayed each of us with germs (glitter) to demonstrate how important it is to use our “superhero” elbows to catch all of the germs in our elbows and not share them with our friends. Last we practiced all the steps of how to wash our hands the correct way. We worked on following directions and sang a fun song to help us remember the right way to wash our hands. Maybe when I get home you can help me remember all the steps to washing our hands correctly while singing our song.

“Tops and Bottoms” (Sung to ‘Frere Jacques’)
Tops and Bottoms, Tops and Bottoms (washing tops and bottoms of hands)

In between, in between (washing in between fingers)

All around your hands, all around your hands (washing around entire hand)

Makes them clean, makes them clean (rinse under the water)

Click here for "Handwashing Song"

After we sang our handwashing song, we danced to some music and played freeze dance. When we stopped, we all pretended to sneeze into our elbows. 

Targeted Objectives:

·      Vocabulary

·      WH questions: where, what, and why

·      Basic concepts: top, bottom, etc..

·      Following directions (visual and verbal)

Current Sound Target

·      /b/ in syllables and words

o   Our “Bouncing Ball Sound”