Health and Well-Being
Primary 1 · Physical Education
Health and Well-Being
Lesson 2 of 3
20 min
Let's begin
Mutesi wants to eat an avocado after break.
Her hands look clean. But tiny germs are hiding there!
How can Mutesi wash them away?
Grown-up: read this aloud. Show each move first. Then do it together.
You need: water, soap and a clean cloth. Use a kandagira ukarabe, a tap, or a jug and a basin. For the game: a little chalk dust.
Germs are tiny living things. They are too small to see.
Some germs make you sick, with a tummy ache or diarrhoea. Soap and water wash them away.
Pretend to wash your hands to a beat. Rub your palms. Rub the backs. Lace your fingers together. Twist your thumbs.
Do it fast. Now do it very slowly!
At school, you may use a kandagira ukarabe. Press the pedal with your foot, and water comes out. Your clean hands do not touch the tap.
Rub a little chalk dust on one child's hands. The chalk is pretend germs.
That child shakes hands with a friend. That friend shakes hands with the next friend. Look! Now everyone has "germs".
Everyone washes with soap and water. The "germs" are gone!
Sit together. Count slowly to 20, all together. That is the hand-washing count.
Warning
Safety first! The hand-washing water is not for drinking. Drink only clean drinking water.
Tip
Soap, rub to 20, rinse!
Wet and soap. Rub while you count to 20. Rinse and dry.
Do each one, then tap Show answer to check.
Do the hand-washing dance.
Answer: Palms, backs, between your fingers, thumbs.
Name two times you must wash your hands.
Answer: Before you eat, after the toilet, after playing, after blowing your nose.
How long do you rub your hands with soap?
Answer: While you count slowly to 20.
How do you use a kandagira ukarabe?
Answer: Press the pedal with your foot. Water comes out.
What you learned today
Sources and credits
The story, the games, the step pictures and the practice were written by Ganzaa.
This lesson adapts CC BY-SA material and is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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