In early March, Akoyikoyi students learned more about healthy habits and focused on one of the most essential- which is washing your hands. After watching videos and reading information about hand washing, the students created posters, signs, and a skit about the importance of hand washing.
As the CDC reminds, “hands should be washed often.” Akoyikoyi students learned that there are many times both before and after doing everyday activities that people should wash their hands. For example, people should wash their hands:
BEFORE:
-Eating, working with food, caring for sick people, and treating a wound.
AFTER:
–Preparing food, using the bathroom, changing diapers, blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing, touching animals or animal food, and touching garbage.
The CDC also taught Akoyikoyi students that when handwashing, there are five important steps to follow. These include:
1) Wetting your hands with CLEAN RUNNING water
2) Lathering your hands with soap (the fronts, backs, in between fingers, and under fingernails
3) Scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds, this means you need to sing the “birthday song” at least two times!
4) Rinse your hands well under CLEAN RUNNING water
5) Dry your hands using a CLEAN towel or air dry them
The above information is from the CDC website. For this information, and more information on hand washing and staying healthy, please visit the CDC website at: https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/when-how-handwashing.html
Akoyikoyi students displayed much learning and growth in these “healthy habit” activities. The importance of hand washing, cleaning, and taking measures to keep oneself and others healthy was emphasized in these activities.
Akoyikoyi is proud of its students for taking the initiative to help themselves and others learn more about how to stay healthy. From our students and staff to the world, we wish to send out this awareness of healthy habits as well as extend our wishes for the family of the world to stay healthy and happy in these unique times.
