Dental Health

This past week the preschoolers have been super busy!  We just finished up a dental health unit. We learned how important it is to make sure we brush our teeth and keep them clean to even going to see the dentist!   Our letter of the week was of couse the letter Tt, which fit perfect with out theme.  So our course we had to make teeth!!  We watercolored our letter Tt and then made a tooth by gluing cotton balls on to it. 

I not only introduced them the proper way to brush and the importance, we even learned about floss!  They at first thought it was odd to put a 'string' in between their teeth, but once they got to see what the string does, they loved it!  What better way to see what floss actually does is to floss playdough out of blocks!  I told them the playdough was our breakfast we just ate and then showed them what our toothbrush does.  I brushed the block with a toothbrush and some of our playdough was coming off, which then led to why we use floss.

 

L.H. show how much food he got!

 

Our experiment for Wednesday fun!  I boiled eggs and soaked them in pop overnight.  On Wednesday I asked the preschoolers if they like juice and pop and of course I had them all telling what kinds they like and don't like, how much they can drink, how much their dads drink.  It was quite amusing.  I explained that those drinks can hurt our teeth if we don't brush.  I showed them the eggs and all I heard was 'EWW!'.  I think I got my point across!

 

 

Since our 'teeth' (eggs) were dirty, we just HAD to clean them.  This was a good way to show them visually what brushing their teeth acutally does! 

 

There are some pictures of our dance/movement time.  They have bean bags and are dancing to our all time favorite song, 'The Gummy Bear Song!"