We are targeting the germs we spread when we sneeze or cough into the air.
Click on the link below to see the photo we have displayed in our room.
Cover up your coughs and sneezes
If you don't, you'll spread diseases.
Sneezing into your hand spreads germs on doorknobs, pencils, and manipulatives.
Sneezing into your bent elbow still allows some germs to escape into the air.
Here is what we are learning to do:
We unbutton the top button of our uniform and practice pulling our shirt
up and over our nose and mouth when we cough or sneeze.
We wash our hands if we sneeze on them.
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Songs and Poems
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Piggyback Songs
*Mary had a Little Lamb
Please be sure and wash your hands
Wash your hands, wash your hands
Please be sure and wash your hands
Every time you sneeze!
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*Frere Jacques
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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*Mary had a Little Lamb
I love to eat my vegetables,
Vegetables, vegetables
I love to eat my vegetables
Every single day
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*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!
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*Mary had a Little Lamb
Throw it in the garbage can
Do it quickly, as you can
Then please go and wash your hands
Wash your hands for me!
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*Frere Jacques
Eat your veggies
Eat your carrots
Grow up strong
Grow up strong
Spinach is so tasty
Collard greens are yummy
Eat them up
Eat them up
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*Mary had a Little Lamb
Now it's time to go outside
Go outside, go outside
Now it's time to go outside
And breathe some fresh clean air
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*Mary had a Little Lamb
Mary had a little germ
Little germ, little germ
Mary had a little germ
So she got sick today.
She couldn't go to school that day
School that day, school that day
She couldn't go to school that day
And it made her cry.
She learned how to wash her hands
Wash her hands, wash her hands
She learned how to wash her hands
And wash those germs away!
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*Mary had a Little Lamb
Its four o'clock and time for snack
Time for snack, time for snack
Its four o'clock and time for snack
So let's go wash our hands.
Turn on the water and wet your hands
Wet your hands, wet your hands
Turn on the water and wet your hands
Be sure to move your sleeves.
Next step is to squirt the soap
Squirt the soap, squirt the soap
Next step is to squirt the soap
To kill the nasty germs.
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*The Itsy Bitsy Spider
The Itsy Bitsy germ crawled up your hand and arms
Down came soap and washed the germs away
Out came the towel and dried up all the hands
So the itsy bitsy germ was gone again today
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*Row Row Row Your Boat
Wash wash wash your hands
After you go potty
And remember to use the Kleenex
When your nose is snotty
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*Mary Had A Little Lamb
Now it's time to brush your teeth
Brush your teeth, brush your teeth
Now it's time to brush your teeth
We don't want cavities.