In honor of Dental Health Month...
Did you know February is National Dental Health Month? Along with Black History Month, Ground Hog's Day, Valentine's Day and President's Day, for a kindergarten curriculum February is a pretty full month!
This week Dental Health has been our science focus. Monday we talked about the things we need to do to have healthy teeth and then made a bulletin board display for the hallway. The things we drew and wrote about were: brush, floss and rinse your teeth after meals, eat healthy snacks and visit a dentist regular check-ups - things you would expect.
Tuesday I asked the student to recall with me the things we needed to do to have healthy teeth. With hands popping up, I called on each child to hear what he had remembered or had thought of to add to our list.
Just about when I thought I had heard "everything" Christian's hand pops up. "Be careful when you ride a scooter!" I paused and then replied, "Tell us how that helps your teeth stay healthy."
Christian begins his disertation: When you ride a REAL scooter that goes with a motor, you have to watch where you're going or you might go flying over a bump and flip off the scooter and fall to the ground and hit your mouth and make your teeth push back and then you have to go to the dentist tomorrow and the dentist has to pull them out!" He then smiles real big to show where his 2 front teeth had been pulled!
We all agreed that was something we needed to add to the list of things to do to KEEP your teeth - healthy or not!
This week Dental Health has been our science focus. Monday we talked about the things we need to do to have healthy teeth and then made a bulletin board display for the hallway. The things we drew and wrote about were: brush, floss and rinse your teeth after meals, eat healthy snacks and visit a dentist regular check-ups - things you would expect.
Tuesday I asked the student to recall with me the things we needed to do to have healthy teeth. With hands popping up, I called on each child to hear what he had remembered or had thought of to add to our list.
Just about when I thought I had heard "everything" Christian's hand pops up. "Be careful when you ride a scooter!" I paused and then replied, "Tell us how that helps your teeth stay healthy."
Christian begins his disertation: When you ride a REAL scooter that goes with a motor, you have to watch where you're going or you might go flying over a bump and flip off the scooter and fall to the ground and hit your mouth and make your teeth push back and then you have to go to the dentist tomorrow and the dentist has to pull them out!" He then smiles real big to show where his 2 front teeth had been pulled!
We all agreed that was something we needed to add to the list of things to do to KEEP your teeth - healthy or not!
posted by Betty @ 8:00 PM
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