Carpe Disinfectus! (rough) translation :
Seize the Hand Sanitizer!
Seven of my 23 third graders were absent from school today!
That is about 30% of my class!
We have been pushing the hand washing and hand sanitizer,
but still The Flu has still smacked us all backwards....
*This ad cracks me up...because such is life in third grade.
Especially this year since I have some straight-up RABID nose pickers.
There is nothing like watching a kid work on a paper while picking a winner, and then having to touch that paper later. With your HANDS.
Speaking of Hand Sanitizer...
Last week one of my little lovelies ATE some.
Then he read the warning on the back, and FREAKED OUT.
Like, legit sobbing and crying, "I am going to diiiiiiiiiiiie".
The poor kid was pretty sure he'd just poisoned himself to death, and it took me awhile to convince him otherwise....
And when I asked him WHY on EARTH he ate some?
"I don't knoooow", he shrugged...
Oy.
Anyway, in light of that little event, I thought I would share with you the very important Public Service Announcement I was forced to make in my classroom last week.
Hand Sanitizer is for your HANDS.
And as tempting as it may be,
Do NOT do this:
You're welcome!
Seize the Hand Sanitizer!
Seven of my 23 third graders were absent from school today!
That is about 30% of my class!
We have been pushing the hand washing and hand sanitizer,
but still The Flu has still smacked us all backwards....
*This ad cracks me up...because such is life in third grade.
Especially this year since I have some straight-up RABID nose pickers.
There is nothing like watching a kid work on a paper while picking a winner, and then having to touch that paper later. With your HANDS.
Speaking of Hand Sanitizer...
Last week one of my little lovelies ATE some.
Then he read the warning on the back, and FREAKED OUT.
Like, legit sobbing and crying, "I am going to diiiiiiiiiiiie".
The poor kid was pretty sure he'd just poisoned himself to death, and it took me awhile to convince him otherwise....
And when I asked him WHY on EARTH he ate some?
"I don't knoooow", he shrugged...
Oy.
Anyway, in light of that little event, I thought I would share with you the very important Public Service Announcement I was forced to make in my classroom last week.
Hand Sanitizer is for your HANDS.
And as tempting as it may be,
Do NOT do this:
You're welcome!
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It can be very rewarding at times teaching kids, but I am sure it can be very frustrating also. I can't imagine eating hand sanitizers, yuke.
I look up to all teachers. You don't get paid a lot and you do a valuable service.
omg...good thing you posted that, ive been craving hand sani lately!
omg...good thing you posted that, ive been craving hand sani lately!
I'm going to try very hard to keep that in mind. One day at a time...
Lol! The second the kids I nanny for get home from school I hand sanitize them! I hate germs!
Everybody is getting sick these days. Hand sanitizer is good.
I was at a funeral yesterday and part of the service was communion and this church everybody drank from a common cup. Not me!!!
I don't want to offend anybody but I think the common cup is outmoded.
*sigh Can I express, once again, my utter frustration that I cannot see your blog? At least this time I could read the full post on google reader so I knew what I was commenting on. Small steps.
If this continues, you'll have to email me your posts everyday - lol.
My bff was here this weekend, and her little girl (7) was dressed cute as a button, blond hair all cutsey pony tail, and adorable flip flops heading out the door to play, finger knuckle deep. Kids do love to pick their noses don't they?
Hope you stay healthy!!!
LOL I'll have to try and remember that next time I get a hankerin for some Purell!
OMG, the kid who ate the hand sanitizer is funny, but only because I'm not his teacher. I swear there's a special place in heaven for teachers. My son brought home a note yesterday that there was a case of H1N1 in our district - NICE.
Maggie just discovered that her chubby little finger fits nicely into her nose! Ahh the joy of years to come of telling her to "GET her FINGER OUT of her NOSE!). That reminds me to refill the hand sanitizer in my purse! I can't even imagine what it tastes like!
At our gym childcare, for awhile they would squirt hand sanitizer on the kid's hand & then while the child was wiping his hand, the staff would ask "what kind of gummy bear do you want" then hand over a gummy.
Only about half the kids were not good at wiping, so the gummy sat briefly in a puddle of hand sanitizer before being eaten.
Now the staff has to supervise the wiping & wait 15 seconds to make sure the hands are dry before giving out gummies.
Who knows how many sanitary gummies my boys have eaten?
oh we just did this, Lauren's 4th grade class was down to 4 kids for more than a week, 3rd grade down to 5 and the teacher got Pneumonia - one child in Lauren's class ended up with Mono and the rest were just sick IN BED yes in bed for 4 days with Fevers spiking and heads that wouldn't lift from pillows. It was the week before Hailey's surgery and I was terified...WE ESCAPED it and yes Lauren was ordered to PURELL her skin raw (and she did)
LOL! Thanks for the warning....I'll be sure to keep my little nose pickers away from the temptation of downing some delicious hand sanitizer - hey, wait second...maybe I can use it to get out that nail polish stain - worth a try! LOL
Ewww to the nose pickers - that alone would drive me bats. I'm sure your class has heard about the snail that lives in your nose and will bite your finger off (poem is by Shel Silverstein). I use that one on my kids all the time.
Oh how funny! That must have tasted awful! You never know what kids are going to do.
lmao - my son (and from what I hear, his father) are the same way - they'll get it in their mind to do or try something but then have absolutely no idea what compelled them to do so. And according to dh, that's no cop out - he literally would have no idea.
But it turned him into a soon to be wildly successful electrical engineer, so I'm guessing that means good things for both our boys, right?
On a related, but less funny note, there are actual cases of alcohol poisoning in children from injesting hand santizer.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp
Believe it or not, around children, it can be dangerous and even deadly.
BTW, for the record, we still use it in our household ALL the time. But now I'm more careful to watch my girls to make sure they do NOT lick their hands after using it.
Geez you crack me up everytime. Poor kid thinking he was gonna die. Bless his heart.
That's one of those warnings that you would never expect would be necessary on the back of a bottle of HAND Sanitizer. Obviously, it's gelly goodness is just too much to resist for some people.
I have hand sanitizer in my purse and I've been wanting some all morning. Are you sure I won't die?
Oh gawd. I am gagging just thinking about this!
Kids won't eat their vegetables but they'll manage to get that stuff down? Talk about NASTY!!!
Oh ew. I imagine it tastes disgusting. *Gags*
I am so lax when it comes to germs, it's not even funny. I use hand sanitizer like once a month, and I am rarely sick!
LOL kids ;)
Ahh...3rd grade! I loved teaching and 3rd grade was my favorite grade level.
Though I don't miss the stinkiness of the kids as they filed in after recess.
Yeah, nose picking. It's a huge activity in my house right now. Gross. Trying to get my son to stop. But he's 3 and curious...
So gross! But hey, at least along with being exhausting, and disgusting, kids are FUNNY!!!!
Is that your husband? And isn't it kind of late in the year for flu? course last week both my 2nd grader and I (!) were home sick with stomach bug... ug.
We have the automatic dispensers here at work. There has been many a surprised kid that leans on the wall underneath them!!!!
Every time my two year old uses hand sanitizer he makes a point of slapping some on his cheeks as if it were aftershave. Don't know where he got that, at least he's not guzzling it. I'm not envying you the booger papers either, yikes.
Guess where that finger's going next? I LOVE it!
i hope you escape the sickies and ickies , hoping you are on break before too long.
My 4year old picks. She always says that there is something in her nose. And I guess rather than getting a tissue, it's just easier to go for it! Well, I KEEP hand sanitizer handy.
I feel your pain because after spending so much time in the school this year, I can't help but walk around constantly thinking about the germs the kids a passing!
That's one thing I'm not looking forward to when my son goes to school. Picking up all those germs.
But I guess it helps strenghten immunity, right?
That's a lot of kids sick from your class.
Our whole family is sick right now =(. We're using a lot of hand sanitizer of course...making sure we put it out of reach so our son doesn't accidentally eat some!
we have "an unexplained viral infection"...which is what i learned from $20 and a dr visit yesterday...103 fever for 3 days...it has to end soon.
Teachers RAWCK!!! Just think of all of the good things you get to touch. Like the boy who sticks his hands down his pants when no one is looking. *grin*
Have you heard about the little girl who got drunk eating the hand sanitizer?
Okay, like I said before Teachers RAWCK!!!
picking noses it so gross, the sanitizer isn't working?
Strep is running rampant around our school right now..weird time of year for it.
Can I go home now?
Okay it is just funny to me that the kid would consume some and then READ the packaging.
Glad he didn't get drunk off the alcohol in it!
Wow, I've heard of wheezin' the juice (Pauly Shore) not the hand sanitizer...oiy!
Oh and hand sanitizer is the new hand lotion around here. We use it religiously!
our supermarket has been out of purell the last two shopping trips. how absurd is that?!
Germs are rampant in my kids' school too. Usually things are better this time of year. I think the swine flu set off everyone.
I think you need those latex gloves to grade papers. I would definitely b squeamish about picking them up after seeing that.
That is one seriously funny pic! Did you take it? It's SO funny!
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