Wash, wash, wash your hands!
9/14/2019
Last week in EK2 we talked about how sharing is an important part of friendship. This week we talked about something that we don’t want to share: GERMS! We started the week by talking about the importance of hand-washing. We used an object lesson to help the children visualize how sneaky germs can be and why we wash hand so often in preschool. I pretended to wash my hands with some hand sanitizer, and everyone agreed my hands were clean. I pretended to sneeze into my hands and then I put a small amount of glitter on them to represent the germs. Everyone could see that I now had germs on my hands, and we agreed that sneezing into our elbows is a better choice! I played with a toy cup while I had glitter on my hand and then passed it around. Everyone could see glitter on the cup and then on their hands just by touching the cup! Then I shook hands with each child, and they could easily see that they all had my “germs” now. All week everyone was much more compliant with hand-washing! On Friday we made an art page by practicing using white glue to put drops of glue on tracings of our hands, and then sprinkling them with glitter. Beautiful work from very proud (and a little silly!) artists! We made name puzzles and practiced putting the letters in order. We also practice our scissor skills by cutting on lines using both regular and fancy scissors, and did LOTS of drawing on paper and on individual white boards! Art and Music are always highlights of our week! We are practicing the skills of being good friends and are building a strong classroom community. We are having fun together as we talk and sing songs, play games, take turns, and practice being kind to one another. We are developing great friendships!
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Melissa SmithMs. Smith has a degree in Early Childhood Education and has taught kindergarten for many years. Alaska has been home to Ms. Smith for 28 years, and she can't imagine living anywhere else! She has four children, a dog and two cats. She loves reading, camping, gardening, and genealogy! Archives
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