Dental Health Unit/Theme

Michelle Schuldt Grade: K ALCOS: 12.) Identify practices that promote health and prevent the spread of infections, illnesses, and diseases. Learning Objective: Students will learn how to take care of their teeth.

Whole Group Lessons:

Good and Bad Foods for Teeth Lesson Materials: Poster of Tooth smiling Poster of Tooth Frowning Photos of good and bad foods 2 apple slices for each student Peanut butter Marshmallows Spoons for each student Procedures: Tell students that the month of February is Dental Health Month Ask students what they know about teeth and dental health Allow a few minutes for discussion Ask students if its important to think about what we eat when taking care of our teeth. Tell students that it IS very important that we know which foods are good and which are bad. Ask them if they might know what makes food bad for your teeth. Discuss with students that foods that are sugary are bad for our teeth and cause cavities, which are little holes in our teeth. Tell them that fruits and vegetables are good for our teeth because they help make them stronger. Tell them that if they eat sugary foods it is ok, they just need to try and brush them after so they do not get cavities. Hand each student a picture of food. Call students to come up and decide whether to put their food on the happy tooth or the sad tooth. If they think its a good food they put it on the happy tooth, if its bad then they put it on the sad tooth. After the activity discuss some of the foods we should try to eat to keep our teeth healthy and discuss what we should do if we eat sugary foods.

Have students go to their desk (have apple, pb, marshmallows, spoon already set up at each desk) Tell students that they are going to make a healthy smile snack. Show them what to do with your own apple and pb. Have students create their healthy smile snack and then enjoy them!

Assessment: Students will be assessed whether or not they understand which foods are healthy or not based on teacher questioning and observation of the sorting activity. Learn to Brush Your Teeth Lesson Materials: Toothbrushes for each student Small toothpaste for each student Procedures: Show students samples of toothbrushes and toothpastes, Ask students what these are used for. Explain what a toothbrush and toothpaste are used for. Demonstrate how to properly brush teeth. Distribute a toothbrush to each student and have him/her practice proper tooth brushing. Encourage students to have their parents help them daily with their dental practices at home. Sing the 'This Is The Way We Brush Our Teeth' song. Have students perform appropriate actions for each verse. Assessment: Students will be assessed by teacher observation while practicing brushing teeth. Teeth Wrap-Up Lesson Materials: The Tooth Book by Theo Lesieg Computer/projector Tooth Info PP Sentence strips for each student Glue for each student Teeth facts for each student Procedures: Call students to the rug. Have students tell you some of the things they have learned about teeth. Read the book to the students. Have students share what they liked best about the book.

Show the PowerPoint and have students answer the questions in the PowerPoint about teeth. Hand students their papers with the teeth facts on them with words missing. Write the word bank on the board so students can see how to spell each word. Tell students that they are going to fill in the blank in each fact. When they are done filling in the facts, have students color the pictures and cut each fact out. Then have them glue the facts on the sentence strip to create a flag Hang the flags outside for display

Assessment: Students will be assessed based on the answers they put for their teeth facts.

Teeth Theme within the different subjects:

Teeth Centers (2-weeks of centers) (Language Arts) Arthurs Tooth by: Mark Brown: listening center Listen to the story then complete the worksheet drawing a picture of what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Create a Tooth: Following Directions Center Create a tooth person and label the correct parts by following the directions given on the sentence strips Poetry Center: Read the poem about brushing your teeth, then color the puzzle pieces and put them together on the construction paper. o You brush your teeth up, You brush your teeth down. You brush

'em, brush 'em all around. You don't want cavities, No, no not gum disease. You tell those germs to get out of town! Ohley!"
Stamp the word Center: Find and stamp the letters in the word dentist, tooth, floss, and brush, then write the word on the line. Make a Sentence Center: Look at the words on the teeth; pick one word from each tooth to create a sentence. Create 3 sentences, and then draw a picture of one of the sentences. Environmental Print Center:

Look through the magazines to find pictures of people smiling, cut out the smiles and glue them on the tooth cutout. Write the word smile at the top of the tooth.

Assessment: Students will be assessed on their centers based on completion of the center. Morning Work (2-Weeks): Each morning, students will complete a worksheet dealing with teeth or dental health for their morning work. Worksheets include counting teeth, deciding whether the food is good or bad for you teeth, phonics and teeth, deciding which tools the dentist uses. Assessment: Students will be assessed on their morning work for complete answers to the questions on the worksheets. Theme Baskets (1 Week): Students do one activity per day for 4 days. Healthy Foods Maze o Start where the word start is on the worksheet, go to the first picture of food and decide if it is healthy for your teeth or not, if it is color the food, if it is not then leave it plain. Go through the maze deciding if the food is healthy for your teeth or not. Dentist Trip o Color the pictures of the boy going to the dentist, then cut them out and put them in the correct order. Decide what happens first at the dentist, then second, then third. Count Teeth/Coloring Sheet o Look at the kids smiles on the worksheets, count the teeth that they are, and count how many they are missing. Create a graph. Then color the picture of the dentist. Create a Book o Color the pictures of the tooth fairy and then fold to make a book. Writing: I think the tooth fairy o On the picture of the tooth fairy, write on the lines what you think the tooth fairy does with your teeth when she collects them. I lost my tooth when o On the picture of the tooth, write on the lines about the time you lost your first tooth. Math: Gappy Grin Graph:

Using a data sheet, color in 1 tooth for each tooth you have lost. Compile all the information on a class graph. Who has lost the most, fewest? How many teeth have we lost all together?

Science/Social Studies: Scholastic Weekly Reader o How Toothpaste is Made Read the reader together while stopping to discuss the pictures and what is happening. o Tools the Dentist Uses Read the weekly reader and discuss each photo and tool that the dentist uses. Music:

Are Your Teeth Clean and White?

Are your teeth clean and white? Do you brush them side-to-side? Are your teeth clean and white? Do you floss them good To remove the bits of food? Do you floss them every day? Like you know you should? Do you take good care of The teeth that are there? Do you floss them good?

Sung to Do Your Ears Hang Low? Ive Been Brushing

Ive been brushing with my toothbrush [brushing motion], Brushing every day. Ive been brushing with my toothbrush [brushing motion], Its how I fight decay. All my teeth are gonna sparkle [big smile], How proud Ill be. Every time I want to smile, My teeth will shine for me! [big smile], Always brush your teeth, Every single day. Keep those cavities away! Use your brush and paste, Just the way you should, Keep your smile a looking good!

Sung to Ive Been Working on the Railroad This is the Way We Brush our Teeth
This is the way we brush our teeth Brush our teeth Brush our teeth This is the way we brush our teeth Every single day. We gently brush them up and down Up and down Up and down We gently brush them up and down Every single day. We gently brush them round and round Round and round Round and round We gently brush them round and round Every single day. We count to ten and brush each tooth Brush each tooth Brush each tooth We count to ten and brush each tooth Every single day.

(Tune: Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush)

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