Staying healthy at Gan!

This time of year, when it's cold out and we are susceptible to more illnesses and germs being shared. 

So, we took this opportunity to learn about how to keep our bodies healthy. Our friends learned about good germs and bad germs. 

Yossi, helped understand this by putting glitter on his hand as the bad germs. After shaking his friend's hand we saw the germs spread!

How can we get rid of germs that make us sick? By washing our hands properly with soap. 

Our friends learned a song and showed us how to get every part of their hand covered with soap.

Levi and Avraham did an experiment to show us how soap gets rid of germs. 

We used black pepper as the little germs and as soon as the soap on the qtip made all the pepper disperse. 

Sometimes we need to sneeze and we learned how to take of ourselves and our friends around us. 

Ayal and Levi, helped our little Chaim who was on a spray bottle who kept on sneezing and they used a tissue and even remembered to throw it away after!

When we sneeze the bad germs fly out of our nose. Using rubber bands and paint we made an art project showing how the germs fly. 

Using a picture of what germs look like under the microscope Axel created his own version out of clay.

Little pom poms inside a bag of gel swimming on hands and using our fine motor skills to maneuver the 'germs' and clear the hands.

Avraham and Nechama, painting 'dirty' hands that need to be washed and cleaned.

Glove filled water with little colored germs was a fun way to practice washing hands. 

Nechama, buried her friends feet in the sand!