Day 1

• Read Germs Make Me Sick by Melvin Berger.
• Put a sticker, drawing, or picture of something that will represent germs (ie: bacteria, viruses)on your "My Science Journey Poster."
• Discuss the reading with your child.
• Go and wash your hands with your child and discuss how keeping clean can keep germs away.  I sing a rhyme with my children to remind them of how long they need to wash with soap and warm water to kill the germs.

Wash, wash, wash our hands,
Wash them every day,
We scrub and scrub and scrub and scrub,
For that's the only way.

Repeat the song 2 times.
 

• More song ideas on this website: http://www.units4teachers.com/PDF/handwashing.pdf

Day 2

Be creative.... (choose one or more suggestion)

• Use this "What are germs?" coloring sheet.
• Draw a picture.... I suggest having your child draw a picture of the different kinds of germs (see pg. 7 of Germs Make Me Sick).
• Make a Rules of Good Health poster (see pg. 31 of Germs Make Me Sick).

Day 3

Read more... (choose 1 - 3 more books on the topic)

• The Magic School Bus: Inside Ralphie: A Book About Germs
• Achoo! All About Colds by Patricia Brennan Demuth
• It's Catching: Colds by Angela Royston
• You Can't Take Your Body to a Repair Shop by Harriet Ziefert and Fred Ehrlich, M.D.

Day 4

Experiments, Activities, and/or Field Trips

• Try this preschool germ activity: http://science.preschoolrock.com/index.php/Preschool_Biology/preschool_germ_activity_teaching_your_preschooler_about_germs
• If possible... visit a doctor's office, health clinic or hospital.  Take care not to pick up any harmful germs during your visit.
• If you have a toy doctor kit... you could play doctor or nurse with some stuffed animals.
• Websites:
• http://library.thinkquest.org/J002353/
• http://atozteacherstuff.com/pages/334.shtml
• http://www.scrubclub.org/home.php
• http://www.healthyhands.com/educator/grades_pre_2.htm

Day 5

• Review - look through the books you read and discuss what you learned.
• Fill in "My Science Journey Journal" page.

• diseases
• hygiene
• health
• blood
• cells
• doctors
• nurses
• hospitals
• microscopes