What big teeth you have!February is National Children's Dental Health Month and a good time for reinforce healthful health·ful adj. 1. Conducive to good health; salutary. 2. Healthy. health  ful·ness n. dental habits. Begin by asking children
what they know about teeth. Ask: How many teeth do you have? (20) How do
your teeth help you? How can you keep your teeth clean and healthy?
Our Big World Which Foods Help Teeth? Some crunchy crunchy - floppy disk foods can help clean your teeth. Sweet sticky foods sticky food Dentistry Any food–eg, 'gummy bears,' jelly beans, chewing gum, chewy chocolates–proscribed post procedure–eg, placing of temporary crown–SFs tend to pull out anything not permanently anchored in the gums can cause decay. Note: Help children understand that crunchy fruits and vegetables help keep teeth clean. When children eat those foods, they scrub their teeth. Eating sticky foods can cause decay or cavities because sticky foods cling to Verb 1. cling to - hold firmly, usually with one's hands; "She clutched my arm when she got scared" hold close, hold tight, clutch hold, take hold - have or hold in one's hands or grip; "Hold this bowl for a moment, please"; "A crazy idea took hold of teeth. Ask children to imagine eating each kind of food. Ask: What would your teeth feel like if you ate only the foods in the sticky group? Would it be hard to get the sticky foods off your teeth? Why? How would you clean your teeth? Remind children the best way to clean their teeth is by brushing them with a small bit of toothpaste on a toothbrush toothbrush, n a handheld device with an arrangement of bristles at one end, and a handle designed to reach effectively all exposed surfaces of the teeth and gingiva. . Review the brushing steps below. Don't Forget To Brush! (1) Place a small amount of toothpaste on your toothbrush. (2) Move your brush back and forth over your teeth. (3) Make little circles with the brush over your teeth. (4) Rinse your mouth with water. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] ACTIVITY PAGE Name -- Find the Right Foods to Bite Note: Review with children how crunchy foods like apples help scrub their teeth as they eat them. Ask: What are some other foods that scrub teeth? Then ask children to circle the three foods that are crunchy, healthful foods. (Skill: Making associations) Challenge: Ask children to circle the food that begins with the letter A. (Skill: Recognizing letters) [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Key Understandings: People can take care of their teeth by eating healthful foods and brushing their teeth at least twice a day. Read More About Dental Health and Teeth * Brush Well: A Look at Dental Care, by Katie S Katie may refer to: In sports:
* Food for Healthy Teeth, by Helen Frost * Open Wide: Tooth School Inside, by Laurie Keller * Dragon Teeth and Parrot Beaks: Even Creatures Brush Their Teeth, by Almute Grohmann, Patricia Bereck Weikersheimer Page 1 After reviewing the cover photograph, provide the children with small, unbreakable hand mirrors. Have each child look inside his or her mouth. Encourage the children to tell you what they see. Let the children touch their teeth and gums and describe how they feel. Are they smooth, bumpy bump·y adj. bump·i·er, bump·i·est 1. Covered with or full of bumps: a bumpy country road. 2. Marked by bumps and jolts; rough: a bumpy flight. , hard, or soft? Lead the children in a discussion about the different characteristics of their teeth. Pages 2 and 3 How to Brush Help the children understand how important it is to take care of their teeth and to keep them healthy. Review the following brushing steps with the children, and provide them with time to practice: * Place a small amount of toothpaste (the size of a pea pea, hardy, annual, climbing leguminous plant (Pisum sativum) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), grown for food by humans at least since the early Bronze Age; no longer known in the wild form. ) on the brush. * Place the brush at a 45-degree angle against the gumline. * Move the brush back and forth over teeth, using short strokes and a gentle "scrubbing" motion. * Use the same method on the outside and inside surface of all teeth. * Scrub the chewing surfaces of all teeth. * Rinse mouth and toothbrush with water. Foods That Make Us Smile Explain to the children that we can get tooth decay Tooth Decay Definition Tooth decay, which is also called dental cavities or dental caries, is the destruction of the outer surface (enamel) of a tooth. (cavities) when food stays on teeth for a long time. Cavities can make teeth weak. Sweet foods can stick to the surface of teeth, and if they are left there, they can hurt teeth the most. Raw vegetables, crackers, and bread are good for teeth. Invite the children to cut out pictures from magazines of tooth-friendly foods. Learning to Brush After discussing how to brush teeth, offer the children a fun activity that will help them practice the skills. Cut off the bottoms of 2-liter soft-drink bottles and save the remaining part for another project. Spray-paint the bottle bottoms white. Place them on a table with toothbrushes and toothpaste for children to use as they practice brushing. We Love Our Teeth Ask: Why do we want to keep our teeth healthy? What are some things you know about keeping your teeth healthy? Discuss the things children do to keep their teeth healthy--brushing, flossing flossing, n the mechanical cleansing of interproximal tooth surfaces with stringlike, waxed or unwaxed dental floss or tape. flossing aids, n. (if old enough), visiting a dentist, avoiding foods with too much sugar, and so on. Together, research other ways to keep teeth healthy and strong. Then give each child a large heart shape. Have the children complete and illustrate the sentence, "I love my teeth because." Place their pages together to make a book. Think and Discuss Reflecting: What are some things people do to take care of their teeth? Why? Related Web Sites: * www.zooth.com and www.ada.org NAEYC NAEYC National Association for the Education of Young Children (Washington, DC) Guidelines Constructing Appropriate Curriculum "Teachers provide cues and other "scaffolding" that enable the child to succeed in a task that is just beyond his or her ability to complete alone." Create a calendar page for each child in your class. On each day of the month, draw a sun and a moon. Distribute the sheets and assign them as homework to ensure parental involvement. Instruct the children (and their parents) that for the next month, the children are to color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour the square on the calendar representing each day that they brush at morning and at night. At the end of the month, have the parents sign the chart and return it with their child to school. Page 4: Assessment-Related Skills Making Associations, Recognizing Letters The focus of this activity page is phonemic awareness Phonemic Awareness is a subset of phonological awareness in which listeners are able to distinguish phonemes, the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning. For example, a listener with phonemic awareness can break the word "Cat" into three separate phonemes: /k/, /a/, . In preparation for associating sounds with letters, the children will name the different objects on this page and listen for all the words that begin with the letter C. The children will also practice using information they have learned on the previous pages to draw conclusions and make associations about the objects on the page. MUSIC This Is the Way We Brush Our Teeth Together, sing the following words and pantomime pantomime or mime (păn`təmīm) [Gr.,=all in mimic], silent form of the drama in which the story is developed by movement, gesture, facial expression, and stage properties. them to the tune of "Mulberry mulberry, common name for the Moraceae, a family of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs, often climbing, mostly of pantropical distribution, and characterized by milky sap. Several genera bear edible fruit, e.g. Bush." This is the way we brush our teeth, We brush our teeth, we brush our teeth. This is the way we brush our teeth, So early in the morning. Substitute other actions for new verses, such as swish with water, chew our food, and eat good snacks. MATH Big and Little Teeth Cut out shapes of large and small teeth from construction paper. Laminate laminate, n a thin slice of porcelain or plastic fabricated in a dental lab, which is cemented to the front of the teeth to cover gaps, whiten stained teeth, or reshape chipped or broken teeth. the pieces. Then invite children to sort the pieces into big and little teeth. Next, have the children put the teeth in order from smallest to biggest or vice versa VICE VERSA. On the contrary; on opposite sides. . ART Toothpaste Putty Use the following recipe for making putty. Combine 2.5 ml creamy toothpaste (not gel) with 5 ml of white glue, 10 ml of dry laundry starch, and 1 ml of water. Knead knead tr.v. knead·ed, knead·ing, kneads 1. To mix and work into a uniform mass, as by folding, pressing, and stretching with the hands: kneading dough. 2. well. Show the children how to form teeth shapes with the putty to make pretend teeth. The children may enjoy forming teeth shapes of different animals. The putty will stay soft for several weeks if it is kept in an air-tight container. |
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