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Social Studies Project Nov 7 The Roaring Twenties

Students from Horace Mann 5th grade experienced a living museum that featured recreations of The Roxy, Harlem streets, homes of the time, grocery stores, New York Yankees stadium, Woman's Temperance crusader, a back room speakeasy and live piano performances at the Cotton Club. Throughout the day students learned lessons about financial climate at the time and were given envelopes filled with money. At the end of the day, the students discovered how their money and investments did during the stock market crash of 1929.

Home life, general store and inventions:
Megan Madison
Elizabeth Rountree
Elizabeth Otten

Yankee Stadium and other entertainment/famous entertainers.
Mendi Richerson
Barbara Merriman
Kristen McConathy

Prohibition
Jennifer Morris
Tracy Dotson
and guests

Harlem Renaissance
Annie Lewis
Katy Rader
Lacey Anderberg

Joel Dixon and Jeanne Akin were New York Times Reporters, undercover

Special thanks goes to Horace Mann 5th graders who were Jr. NY Times reporters undercover

School Nurses can educate children about Infection

Strep Throat
It’s that time of year when children start to miss school days from being sick. Coats are forgotten and the weather turns to cold. Children are confined to the classroom and hand washing techniques are not always completed. This encourages the spread of infection.
Strep throat is an infection that is very common among school-aged kids and teens. The common symptoms of strep throat include fever, stomach pain, and red, swollen tonsils. Further symptoms that will develop within three days include:
red and white patches in the throat
difficulty swallowing
tender or swollen glands (lymph nodes) in the neck
headache
general discomfort, uneasiness, or ill feeling
loss of appetite and nausea
rash

The bacteria can spread easily from person to person by sneezing, coughing, or shaking hands. After experiencing several symptoms, a call to the child’s doctor is a good idea. Most likely the doctor will do a rapid strep test and the infection can be diagnosed in a few minutes.

Treatment for strep throat is an antibiotic medication prescribed from the doctor. Also, it is important that the child gets plenty of rest and drinks plenty of fluids in order to prevent dehydration. In about 24 hours after taking the antibiotics, the temperature should be back to normal and the child should no longer be contagious. After a few days, the symptoms should start to go away.
It is very important to teach children in the classroom the importance of Hand Washing!
http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections/lung/strep_throat.html