Hillary, a.k.a The Lesson Planning Mommy, is one of our fabulous Great Lakes Bay Moms Members. Hillary has a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education pre-school through third grade and a Master degree in Elementary Education grades K-8 with a reading endorsement K-12 grade. She loves creating meaningful, mind provoking activities and lessons for kids.
The Lesson Planning Mommy – Dental Health!
February is dental health month! Learn this week, with your kiddos how to keep your teeth healthy! Stop by GLBMoms play group this Wednesday morning and meet our special guest – a dentist!
What We’re Reading:
“How Many Teeth?”
By: Paul Showers
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“Open Wide: Tooth School Inside”
By: Laurie Keller
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“Brush Your Teeth Please: A Pop-up Book”
By: Reader’s Digest
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Songs:
“Brush Your Teeth”(Sung to the tune; “Row, row, row your boat”) Brush, brush, brush your teeth
Brush them everyday!
Floss them, take care of them,
They’ll stay white that way!
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“This is the Way We Brush Our Teeth”(To the tune of “This is the way we……so early in the morning.”) 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.
Brush ’em up and brush ’em down, in little circles or round and round.
Don’t brush ’em from side to side, those sugar bugs will surely hide.
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Activities:
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-Floss Your Teeth-What You Need:
The play dough represents food and gunk that gets in between your teeth. The yarn is the floss. You use the yarn just like floss and easily get out the food. The kids asked for this to be out after snack time and they took turns flossing and resetting.
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-Brush The Tooth-What You Need:
Directions: Laminate the big white teeth and use a dry erase marker to create “stains” on the teeth. Brush off the “stains” with the toothbrushes.
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-Healthy and Un-healthy Teeth-What You Need:
Directions: Make a big tooth outline on 2 different colors of papers and let them have at it- finding pictures of different food from magazines. Once they told me whether it was good for our teeth or bad, they were allowed to glue them onto the correct tooth!!! Didn’t they turn out so cute???
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Science Experiment:
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-Stained Teeth-We took eggs and left them all day in small cups filled with Pepsi. That afternoon, each student took his/her egg and observed how it had changed to a brownish color. They discussed what we could do to fix them (one answer included “take them to the dentist! He’ll know what to do!”) …I love my job! :o) Finally, they decided that maybe we could try brushing them. We needed a little water, some toothpaste, and toothbrushes. After a lot of scrubbing, they whitened right up!!
**If you do this, please make sure you hard boil your eggs first. We did it last year, but I had the bright idea to forgo it this year. Disaster!! We had 3 egg casualties. And 3 student casualties (aka meltdowns). So promise me, hard boil the eggs!!
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Snack:
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-Apple Smiles-Apple Smiles by fuzzfood.
A great snack idea for a dental health unit. The “smile” is held together by peanut butter or honey. I wonder if that new allergen-free “sun butter” would be a good nut-free, less sugary alternative?
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