Hand Washing Visit - 09.10.14

On Thursday morning and afternoon we had the hand washing nurses visit the Nursery to show us how to wash our hands. The ladies said that we have lots of tiny bugs on our hands that we cannot see and they can make us sick if we don't wash them away.  So it is really important to wash our hands.

They reminded us that we needed to wash our hands:

Before eating our food.
After Going to the toilet.
After playing outside or when we finish playing with messy stuff like paint.
After touching animals.
After coughing or sneezing.

We looked at our hands under a special machine. It had a purple light shining and showed us all the bits we needed to clean. We put cream on our hands and then went and washed it off, we washed and dried our hands the way the ladies showed us how to. We then put our hands back in the special machine and looked to see how well we had done with washing them.  

We watched a cartoon on the Smartboard about Special Agent Handy who went on a germ busting mission. He taught us a new song, and showed us all how to wash our hands properly.

Wash, wash, wash your hands,
wash nasty germs away,
if you don’t you might get ill
and that would spoil your day.

*The animation can be downloaded along with other resources and the website below*

http://www.washyourhandsofthem.com/children's-pack.aspx