Open Wide!!!! Dental Health Week
The dentist is an important helper for us because our teeth are very important. Children are very aware of their teeth at this age. Many older five year olds will soon begin losing their baby teeth. Through experiences provided in this unit the children may learn that the dentist is a person who helps us keep our teeth healthy.
This week they will also learn about the importance of tooth care and the foods to eat for strong healthy teeth.
Some experiences planned are:
Painting with toothbrushes and tooth paste
Learning how to floss teeth by using mega blocks, play-dough, and string.
Teeth counting: one-to-one correspondence activity
Wide mouth craft
Exploring tools that a dentist uses
Songs:
Do Your Teeth Shine Bright?
(Tune: do your ears hang Low?)
Do your teeth shine bright?
Do you brush them every night?
Do you brush them in them in the morning?
Do you brush them all just right?
Do you brush them up and down?
Do you brush them all around?
Do your teeth shine bright?
Brushing Teeth
(Tune: Mulberry Bush)
This is the way we brush our teeth, brush our teeth, brush our teeth.
This is the way we brush our teeth, so early in the morning.
Teeth Counting Activity:
Cut circles out of different color construction paper. Give each circle a black mouth. Label each face with a number. Cut enough small white squares so that each mouth can have teeth.
Place the face on the table with a bag or container of the teeth (white construction paper squares).
Have a student pick a face. They must say the number and then count out that many teeth for that face.
Once they do that one then they can pick another one and continue until all faces have the correct number of teeth.
Wide Mouth Craft:
Cut out a large mouth using red construction paper and lots of white squares to be used as teeth. Give each child one mouth and a handful of teeth to glue on their mouth. I then glued each child’s mouth on a sheet of white construction paper.
