How, and how often, do you sanitize the toys and materials used by the children?

Sanitizing toys and materials in preschool is important...and it is different than cleaning or disinfecting toys.

Learn the difference between cleaning and santizing and HOW to do each!
Know the difference and reduce the risk of flu and illness in your program.

Each year (and each week), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) posts their Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report.

This report shows data regarding the movement and spread of the flu.

In week 51 of 2014 (week ending December 20, 2014), for example, the flu reached what was considered the epidemic threshold.

The past several years have shown high levels of flu activity in December: the level of activity that we used to see earlier in the season. Because the flu is spread through sneezing and coughing, spaces where people together hold a higher risk of spreading the flu as well as other illnesses.