{"id":1881,"date":"2020-12-02T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2020-12-03T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T08:00:40","slug":"the-importance-of-washing-our-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"The importance of washing our hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:right\" class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>contributed by Ms Noelle Agius, Year 1.3<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone knows that hand washing is indispensable\nas it aids with the removal of germs, thus preventing one from getting\nsick.&nbsp; Keeping in mind the situation we\nfound ourselves in due to the pandemic, handwashing has been given much more\nimportance!&nbsp; One of our Science lessons\nwas about this topic.&nbsp; To help the Year 1\nboys understand that in order to remove germs one has to wash his hands with\nsoap and water, we carried out a simple experiment.&nbsp; Each child filled a small container with\nwater and sprinkled in some ground pepper.&nbsp;\nThey then squirted a drop of hand soap on their finger and dipped it in\nthe water.&nbsp; The soap repelled the pepper,\nwhich represented the germs.&nbsp; This\nactivity really engaged the children and also helped them to better understand\nthe importance of handwashing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.3_2-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.3_2-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.3_2-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.3_2-152x270.jpg 152w, https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1.3_2.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>contributed by Ms Noelle Agius, Year 1.3 Everyone knows that hand washing is indispensable as it aids with the removal of germs, thus preventing one from getting sick.&nbsp; Keeping in mind the situation we found ourselves in due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1881\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}