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August-September, Issue 7-5

In Sickness and Health: An Educational Journey

What items should you take on a field trip? Directions to the site, signed permission forms and emergency contact information, copies of related program policies, emergency cash, communication device (cell phone), first aid kit, and items related to children’s activities (educational supplies).

Can parents volunteers supervise children? Adult volunteers can help supervise children and count toward the required adult:child ratio.

What is “counting heads?” Know how many children you have, and where they are at all times.

Safety First: LATCH Restraint Systems

What is LATCH? Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children (LATCH), a new safety system to simplify and standardize car seat installation.

What is the leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among children? Motor vehicle crashes.

Why must infants ride in the back seat? Most vehicles now have passenger side air bags. In a crash, the inflating air bag can hit the infant’s car seat with enough force to injury or kill the infant.

How do you know if a child safety seat is properly installed? The safety seat should not move more than 1 inch from side-to-side or front/back.

Nutrition Action: Fitness for Toddlers & Preschoolers

What are locomotor skills? Moving through space, such as walking, marching, hopping, running, and skipping.

What skills should children develop through fitness activities? Locomotor skills, balancing, throwing and catching, etc.

Why are fitness activities important? Activities help children become fit, strong, flexible and stable. Activities also help children develop stamina.

Medicine Chest: Get the Lead Out

What are consequences of mild lead poisoning? Learning difficulty, lowered intelligence, anemia, slowed growth, etc.

What are consequences of serioud lead poisoning? Stomach ache, vomiting, hearing loss, diarrhea, and sometimes convulsions, coma, and death.

What are sources of lead? House paint (before 1978), water (from lead pipes or solder), and soil.

How does lead get into the soil? From chipping paint, exhaust fumes from vehicles (using leaded gasoline), leakage from vehicle batteries, etc.