HSC 343: Health Education in the Elementary School: Physical Health / Sleep

Harry is a white dog with black spots who loves everything . . . except baths. So one day before bath time, Harry runs away. He plays outside all day long, digging and sliding in everything from garden soil to pavement tar. By the time he returns home, Harry is so dirty he looks like a black dog with white spots. His family doesn't even recognize him!

For use in schools and libraries only. Marc Brown's stories and drawings tell about Arthur's experiences at home, at school, and at camp. Each story promotes kindness, responsibility, and cooperation.

Every child studies dental care in school and this lively picture book makes learning how to care for your teeth fun.Taking good care of your teeth and gums is an important part of maintaining overall health. After all, you need your pearly whites to eat, smile, and talk. But what should you expect when you go to the dentist? What should you do if you lose a tooth?

Speaking in front of the class isn't easy for Melissa Herman when there's nothing very special to say about her house, her family or herself. With the help of her older brother, Melissa borrows a bottle from her father's dental office to take to show and tell. The teacher is appalled, but the children are intrigued.

A trip to the dentist's office is easy once you know the ABCs of it. In this book kids will learn important words like "appointment" "cavity" "plaque" and "X-ray." Informative text and lively collage illustrations make this the perfect book to calm any child's fears about the dentist.

Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Every day Amos spends a little bit of time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and even reading bedtime stories to the owl. But when Amos is too sick to make it to the zoo, his animal friends decide it's time they returned the favor.

What if a dinosaur catches the flu? Does he whimper and whine between each "At-choo"? Does he drop dirty tissues all over the floor? Does he fling his medicine out of the door? Just like kids, little dinosaurs hate being sick. And going to the doctor can be pretty scary. How DO dinosaurs get well soon?

Ka-Chooo! Who's sneezing? It's the cow, the chickens, the pigs, the turkeys, the donkey, and the sheep! All the farm animals have the flu, and Mom is out of town. Luckily, she has one smart son. He knows just what his mom would do, if it were he who had the flu! With tissues, tea, and lots of fun.

Arthur the aardvark catches chicken pox a week before he is supposed to go to the circus.

Pox is not an ordinary germ. Sure, like other germs he takes the bubonic bus to Germ Academy, and he proves that he is unhealthy before he attends school. But Pox just doesn't understand why he should want to make a person miserable. Poor Pox is stuck at the bottom of his class. Luckily, Pox is smarter than his friends and teachers believe, and when he's sent to infect an innocent little girl named Myrtle, he makes some new friends and finds himself a much more suitable, healthy home.

Anyone who can turn pages can read this book. And what fun it is! If you're not felling well today, the prescription for felling better--quickly--is: A box of tissue A cat Cartoons on TV A bear And a whole bedful of other things guaranteed to make any day a happy one!

At first, Jess is excited at having chicken pox and missing school, but harsh reality sets in, in this exploration of the ups and downs of treating this illness.

"Stella," whispered Sam, "are you sleeping?" "Yes," answered Stella. "Aren't you?" Sam can't sleep without his beloved dog, Fred. But where could he be? Sam knows that Fred is afraid of the dark, of the monster that lives in the closet and of the giant toad that lurks downstairs. Luckily, Stella is there to reassure Sam as they search everywhere.

Bedtime rituals take a silly twist in this humorous read-aloud sure to get restless little ones ready for their good-night hug. Cornelius P. Mud, do you know what time it is? It's time for bed, and Cornelius P. Mud knows what that means; putting his toys away, brushing his teeth, putting his pajamas on, all the things we do every night. Right? Wrong! Bedtime at Cornelius's house is no ordinary event.

A cozy bed, a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a dozing dog, a snoozing--WAIT There's a surprise in store, and little ones will want to discover it over and over again. So pull on your sleeping cap and snuggle in for a timeless cumulative tale that's truly like no other.