School Nurse Visit

The School Nurse visited our classroom on Friday to discuss personal hygiene and healthy practices:

*The importance of washing our hands
*Covering our cough with our elbows
*Turning away from others when we cough or sneeze
*Using a tissue
*Not touching our mouth, nose, or eyes with our hands (unless we recently washed our hands)
*Not putting toys, pencils, crayons, etc. in our mouth
*Brushing our teeth
*Eating healthy snacks and meals
*Exercising
*Getting plenty of rest

We discussed that hand washing is the most effective way to prevent the spread of germs.Children and adults should wash their hands:
*After using the washroom
*Before eating
*After blowing their nose
*After playing with pets
*It is also a good idea to wash your hands as soon as you get home from work, school, or shopping so that you will not spread germs at home that you may have picked up when you were away from home.

We practiced the proper way to wash our hands:
*Wet hands and wrists
*Use soap and scrub hands well - scrub palms, backs of hands, in between fingers and around thumbs, finger tips/nails, and wrists
*Rinse thoroughly under running water
*Dry hands well