Teeth

Today we continued to learn about dental health.  Our read aloud was titled Loose Tooth.  By reading this story we learned that adults have 32 teeth.  This book also taught us what it feels like to have a loose tooth and what we need to do to take care of our teeth.  Over the course of the week we have charted what we have learned about dental health.  Today we added the fact that we should visit the dentist and not eat to much sugar.

For centers today the children played a tooth syllable game.  On their turn the child picked a tooth.  Identified the picture on it then clapped its syllables.  They then placed the tooth next to the corresponding mouth.  The children also colored a toothbrush like the one they use at home.  At the end of the day we graphed the toothbrushes.  The color that the children had the most of was green.  At another center the children were given a tooth(glob of play doh) that had cavities in it(black beans).  They used tweezers to get the cavities out of the tooth.  They then placed the cavities in the compartments of a muffin tin that was labeled with numbers.