Dental Health Month

Since February is Dental Health month we spent lots of time this week learning about our teeth and ways to keep them healthy.  We read lots of  books that taught us about the three kinds of teeth we have and what they do {incisors, canines & molars}, how many teeth we have as a child and as an adult, how to properly brush our teeth and gums, how many times a year we should go to the dentist and what kinds of food are best for our teeth.

We also worked on sequencing this week.  We cut out 4 pictures of a little girl brushing her teeth and we put them in the correct order.  Then we wrote about how to properly brush your teeth.  We all worked hard to use capital letters and punctuation marks correctly.  Many of us also remember to use first, next, then and last at the beginning of each sentence.

At centers we marked a number on our 100’s board and then used the skills we have been learning in math to figure out what number is 10 more, 10 less, 1 more and 1 less.

At the listening center we listened to a funny story about a moose who has a loose tooth.  All the animals try to help him pull out his tooth, and when an elephant accidentally swallows the tooth, Moose devises a wacky plan for the tooth fairy!

Then we answered some questions about the story.

We matched sets of toothy contractions.

We played some games about identifying coins and their values on the laptops.

We had a vowel race to fill in the missing vowels in some of the important dental vocabulary words that we learned about this week.

We used the 100’s chart again at another center to fill in the missing numbers.

We sorted teeth that had describing, naming and action words.

We covered a toothbrush/toothpaste picture with pattern blocks and graphed the blocks we used. 

We also practiced putting dental words in ABC order and unscrambled sentences that had facts about our teeth but somehow I didn’t get any pictures of those.