Cover your mouth if you cough.
Cover your mouth if you sneeze.
If you cough,
Or if you sneeze,
Cover your mouth if you please.
I hang this poem and the picture above with our daily routine visuals:
Cover up your coughs and sneezes.
If you don't, you'll spread diseases.
We never sneeze into our hand and if we do we wash our hands right away.
Many of us wear short sleeved shirts all year so sneezing into our elbow
still allows germs to escape into the air in our room.
Here is our solution!
We unbutton the top button of our uniform
so we can quickly pull up our shirt.
We practice this right from the beginning of the year!
Are you coughing?
Are you sneezing?
Cover your mouth,
Cover your mouth.
Germs are always flying,
Germs are always flying.
Wash your hands.
Wash your hands.
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Tune: Mary had a Little Lamb
If you feel you have to sneeze
Have to cough, have to wheeze
Quickly get a tissue please
Please don't sneeze on me!
Throw it in the garbage can.
Do it quickly, as you can!
Then please go and wash your hands
Make your hands germ-free!
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Tune: London Bridge
Hurry up and catch that sneeze
Catch that sneeze, catch that sneeze
Hurry up and catch that sneeze
Tissues over there
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Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb
(childs name) had a little sneeze,
Little sneeze, little sneeze.
(childs name ) had a little sneeze,
So please use a tissue.
Now the germs are wiped away,
Wiped away, wiped away.
Now the germs are wiped away,
Now go wash your hands!
*****
Tune: Frere Jacques
Use a tissue, use a tissue,
To catch the germs, catch the germs.
Throw it in the trash can, throw it in the trash can,
Then wash your hands, wash your hands.
*****
Tune: Frere Jacques
Are you sneezing?
Are you coughing?
Cover your mouth!
Blow your nose!
Throw away the tissues.
Throw away the tissues.
Wash your hands!
Wash your hands!
*****
Tune: Itsy Bitsy Spider
The itchy itchy nose needs a tissue now
Go to the box and get a tissue now
Wipe off your nose and throw the tissue away
Then we go to the sink and wash the germs away
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Tune: Itsy Bitsy Spider
The Itsy Bitsy Spider went up the nostril spout
Down came the mucus and wiped the spider out
Out came the tissue and dried up all the mucus
And the itsy bitsy spider went up the nostril again
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Tune: Frere Jacques
Cover you nose, cover your mouth
When you sneeze, when you sneeze
So you won't spread germs, so you won't spread germs
Cover your mouth, cover your mouth