1. By: Roger Humphrey Audience: 1st Grade
Personal Hygiene
By: Roger Humphrey
Audience: 1st Grade

2. What does personal hygiene mean?
Definition
Cleanliness of the body
Taking care of your
appearance

3. Germs can be picked up many ways!
Defend Against Germs
Germs can be picked up many ways!
touching dirty hands
through contaminated water and food
through droplets released during a cough or a sneeze
contaminated surfaces

4. How do you think we can stay Clean?

5. How do I Stay Clean? Washing our hands Taking baths or showers
Brushing our teeth
Cutting our finger nails
Wearing clean clothes

6. Why is Washing Your Hands So Important?
It Protects against the spread of Illnesses.
Common Cold
Flu Virus
Meningitis

7. How Do I wash my Hands?

8. So when should I wash my hands?
Before eating food
After using the toilet
After blowing your nose,
coughing, or sneezing
After touching an animal or
animal waste
After touching garbage
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9. Why Take Baths or Showers?
Baths are awesome!
They wash off dirt
They keep us
smelling clean
They can be fun

10. What Should I clean in a Bath or Shower?
Hair
Under Arms
Behind our ears
Between our toes
Our body and
face
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11. Why should we Brush Our Teeth?
It Keeps our mouth
clean
It prevents plaque
It stops gingivitis
(gum disease)
It prevents cavities
It stops bad breath
It gives us shiny teeth

12. How do we brush our teeth?
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13. When should we brush our teeth?1
After Breakfast 2
After Lunch (if you can) 3
Before Bedtime

14. Why do we cut our finger nails?
Germs can live
under our finger
nails
Long nails can
scratch people
It can prevent in
grown toe nails.

15. Taking Care of Our Nails
Wash around and under
your nails
Cut nails regularly
You can cut them
straight across or into
a rounded shape.
It is best to cut
toenails after you have
had a bath or a shower

16. But what if I bite my nails?
You may bite your nails so
short that they bleed
Or the skin around the nail
becomes very red and sore.
It is a hard habit to stop
We never want to put our
hands in our mouth.

17. Cool facts about nails! Fingernails grow about 2
times faster than toenails.
They grow faster in summer
than winter.
It doesn't hurt to cut your nails
because the nail is dead.
Deer's antlers, horse's hooves
and bird's feathers are all
made from keratin, the same
protein from which human
nails are made.

18. “Didn’t you wear that yesterday?”
Change clothes everyday
Sweat can build up on clothes
This sweat can cause bacteria
That bacteria can make us sick

19. Activity Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Take a bath/shower Wash my hands
Wash my face
Brush my teeth in the morning
Brush my teeth before bed
Floss my teeth
Comb/Brush my hair
Use deodorant
Use lotion on dry skin
Clean fingernails
Trim fingernails
Trim toenails
Clean ears

20. Now lets practice what we’ve learned! What can we do to stay clean?
Washing our hands
Take a bath or shower
Cut our nails
Brush our teeth
Wear clean clothes