To Dilworth Drug We Go....

After morning circle, we headed out to our Out and About at Dilworth Drug.  Yesterday we learned that sometimes when we are sick, we have to go to the doctor.  If the doctor decides that we need medicine, he writes a prescription.  A prescription is a note about what kind of medicine we need and how many spoons we are supposed to take.  Mom takes that prescription to the pharmacy where we pick up our medicine.  Dilworth Drug is our neighborhood pharmacy.

Ms. Jamie greeted us when we got to Dilworth Drug.  She gave us a brief overview of all the kinds of things that they sell at the pharmacy.  There are band-aids and lotions and powder.  They sell thermometers and hand sanitizer.  Next, Ms. Jamie told us about germs and how they might make us sick. When she asked about ways to keep the germs away, proud teachers watched as the kiddos raised their hands and named some of the things we had been talking about all week.  Always nice to have someone else tell the children that we don't put our hands in our noses or our pants.....too many germs!

Mr. Josh is the pharmacist.  He came out and gave us a tour behind the counter of the pharmacy where they make and bottle the medicines.  He told us about how at Dilworth Drug they can make our medicines taste like some of our favorite foods.  There is chocolate flavor, and strawberry flavor, and apple and banana, and so many more.  They even have bacon flavor for dog medicines and tuna fish flavor for cat medicines.

Before we left they gave each child a small bottle of hand sanitizer and told us that if we need to get the germs away and don't have soap and water....we can always use hand sanitizer.  It was a great trip and the kids really loved learning about the pharmacy.