It's that time of year again when we see some sniffles and children absent from being under the weather. We took this opportunity to learn about germs and how to make sure we don't share bad germs.
The Coughing Kangaroo
Thank you Sholom's mommy for donating a soft and brand new Kangaroo and a little baby in its pouch. This became our new friend and we called it the coughing Kangaroo.
Our Kangaroo started coughing and with its arms we demonstrated how to properly cover our cough so not to spread germs.
Esther and Mina had fun re-enacting our puppet show.
The little baby kangaroo had a sniffle and Chana Rochel helped to catch its sneeze in a tissue.
Adelle role modeling how to use her tissue properly and quickly put it in the trash when she was done.
Hard to teach little children how germs spread when we can't see it with our naked eye.
We brought glitter to the circle time to get a visual how this process takes place.
Mendel got some glitter on his hands we invited Yanky to come up and shake hands with him.
Yanky looked at his hands and saw some glitter from Mendel!
Esther came up to say hello to Yanky and she got glitter on her hands now! The children were getting the idea pretty quickly out germs spread when we touch others!
We all have germs but we need to make sure to keep the bad germs away.
Chana Rochel and Sholom using blow art to create their germ pictures.
Esther trying to create her version of what a germ would look like. We placed some printed pictures of real germs to inspire their creative minds.
This was a pretty neat representation of a germ!
Ice hands and markers was an invitation for our friends to color and create their own germs and wash it away with water droppers.
Germ experiment
We wanted to teach the children how soap is our best friend when it comes to getting the bad germs away.
We sprinkled black pepper in water as the 'germs'. The children got to dip their finger in soap as soon as they touched the black pepper it created a reaction and spread to the ends of the plate. The little 'germs' were running away! This helped the children visualize what happens when we wash our hands with soap.
Emma singing the washing song to make sure she got all the germs off her hands.
Making sure the paper towel goes into the garbage.
"Washing hands" by the art easel with a picture of faucet and blue markers. Mina tracing her hand.
Painting bubble wrap was a fun way to make the soap bubbles on our clean hand.
Adele working on our dirty and germy hand.
Germ books and pictures started great conversations amongst friends.
When we can't take dolls outside to play, they can always watch us from the window!
