I Can…and Germs
Make Me Sick Lessons
Daily
Question: Do you know what a germ
is?
(How do I get sick?
How can I avoid getting sick? How do I wash my hands properly?) These are all questions we answered in preschool today.
Toys: Spaghetti Doll Houses, Play-Doh, Skee-Ball, and Operation Game.
Snack: Apple slices and Animal crackers
*Introduce Maelo and Harris
into the Tu/Th class.
Recount Something Special Book.
Sing: I’m a V.I.P. and I am Like A Star
songs.
Read I Can Book.
Talk about “What Makes Me Special?”
I Can…
Anna: Can make animals with playdough and wash her hands
Ben: make no bakes with his mom
Eva: clean up her playdough
Harris: clean up his blocks when his brother crasher his castle
Lena: flatten playdough to make a princess land (can you tell we played with playdough today?)
Lukas: color
Maelo: play or eat or paint or play cars
Zakai: play with an airplane
Recess. (Lay out lotion, ball, glitter, paper
handouts, glue, glitter, glitter glue…)
What Are Germs Preschool Lesson
What are germs? How do I get sick?
What can I do to not get sick? How do you wash hands correctly? These were some
of the questions we learned about today in Preschool.
We enjoyed listening to and singing The Green Grass Grew All Around. (The children laughed at the end of this cumulative song because they speak of a tiny germ that jumps on a flea.)
After snack time we read about what a germ is. Tanner told us that "germs mean your hands are dirty and you have to wash them." We learned that germs are all around us. Germs are so tiny that we cannot see them without a special machine called a microscope. There are different types of germs. Some are called viruses and some bacteria and they could make us sick. They come in many different shapes.
We learned about proper hand washing and then went to the bathroom to practice scrubbing our hands and singing the alphabet or a Happy Birthday song while we clean under our nails, "inside, outside, and in between" our fingers, rinse and then dry our hands on a clean towel.
After playing outside, we came in and practiced washing our hands. Then we applied lotion to our chapped hands. In circle time we played a ball game and I made a dramatic show of sneezing (tiny purple glitter) all over our ball and then passing it on to the children. Then we shook hands and repeated a get-to-know-you game from the first days of school. When we looked down at our hands, we were able to "see germs" (glitter) and how they had spread from my hands to their hands. Some children choose to wash their hands and others wanted to keep their sparkling hands for our art activity.
For our follow-up art activity, we used glue sticks to trace our hands and then turned our hands over and "caught some germs" (micro-glitter). In our mini discussion group, we talked about how frequent hand washing before meals/snacks and after playing outside or being at school will keep us from catching germs and getting sick. We also spoke briefly about coughing and sneezing into our elbow, hands, or a tissue and then washing our hands to keep others from catching the same "bug." Also, we need enough sleep and to eat nutritious foods to keep us healthy.
Some of the books we read and talked about today:
We enjoyed listening to and singing The Green Grass Grew All Around. (The children laughed at the end of this cumulative song because they speak of a tiny germ that jumps on a flea.)
After snack time we read about what a germ is. Tanner told us that "germs mean your hands are dirty and you have to wash them." We learned that germs are all around us. Germs are so tiny that we cannot see them without a special machine called a microscope. There are different types of germs. Some are called viruses and some bacteria and they could make us sick. They come in many different shapes.
We learned about proper hand washing and then went to the bathroom to practice scrubbing our hands and singing the alphabet or a Happy Birthday song while we clean under our nails, "inside, outside, and in between" our fingers, rinse and then dry our hands on a clean towel.
After playing outside, we came in and practiced washing our hands. Then we applied lotion to our chapped hands. In circle time we played a ball game and I made a dramatic show of sneezing (tiny purple glitter) all over our ball and then passing it on to the children. Then we shook hands and repeated a get-to-know-you game from the first days of school. When we looked down at our hands, we were able to "see germs" (glitter) and how they had spread from my hands to their hands. Some children choose to wash their hands and others wanted to keep their sparkling hands for our art activity.
For our follow-up art activity, we used glue sticks to trace our hands and then turned our hands over and "caught some germs" (micro-glitter). In our mini discussion group, we talked about how frequent hand washing before meals/snacks and after playing outside or being at school will keep us from catching germs and getting sick. We also spoke briefly about coughing and sneezing into our elbow, hands, or a tissue and then washing our hands to keep others from catching the same "bug." Also, we need enough sleep and to eat nutritious foods to keep us healthy.
Some of the books we read and talked about today:
Germs Are Not for Sharing (Best
Behavior Series) by Elizabeth
Verdick and Marieka Heinlen
Additional Fun:
Barney Come on over to Barney's House "Keep Your Sneeze to Yourself!" Song and lesson
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