Health Tips For a Successful School Year

It's back to school time and we know what that means! Children in large groups are breeding grounds for the organisms that cause illness. The single most important thing your child can do to prevent illness is to wash his or her hands thoroughly and frequently. Despite your best efforts, your child is going to get sick especially during his or her first few years of contact with larger groups of children. But a child s immunity improves with time. School-age children gradually become less prone to common illnesses and recover more quickly from the diseases they do catch.



Routine exams and screenings help you and your kids prevent, identify, and treat health problems when they arise. Vaccines greatly reduce your child's risk of serious illness (particularly when more and more people use them) and give diseases fewer chances to take hold in a population. Unfortunately, misinformation about vaccines could make some parents decide not to immunize their children, putting them and others at a greater risk for illness.

The top five infectious illnesses that keep a child from going to school are:

• colds
• stomach flu
• ear infection
• pink eye
• sore throat

Stay tuned for more coloring pages and tips coming soon!

Printing Instructions:

Once you have decided which pages you want to print out the hard part will be over!

1. Click on a thumbnail of a picture you want to see. If you like what you see and you would like to print it out follow the next few steps.
2. Go to the FILE menu
3. Select the PRINT option
4. Check the settings for the printer. You can use the gray scale or black only setting to save on colored ink.
5. Decide how many copies of the image you want.
6. Press Print

Then enjoy coloring your back to school pictures! Remember, the pictures may not look very clear as thumbnails, but when you click on them they will clear up and you will see what you will get when you print.