Brushing Teeth

We finished our hygiene week talking about the importance of brushing our teeth. We pretended to have dinosaur teeth that needed to be cleaned. This dinosaur had been drinking too much soda pop!

(The egg on the left was soaked over night in soda pop and the other is a regular hard boiled egg.)

The kids worked together in pairs with toothpaste and toothbrushes to get those "dinosaur teeth" clean.

We learned it takes a lot of scrubbing to clean our teeth. Just a quick brush-over won't make our teeth sparkle.

Then we made happy mouths on paper plates. I had white squares for the kids to glue on for teeth but most preferred to draw their own square teeth.

Look at that HAPPY mouth!

Each one unique.

We sang a silly song - "This is the way we wash our face" with lots of silly actions.

And we finished with a game of Counting Teeth.

We took turns rolling the dice and then put that number of marshmallows on the tooth game board. 32 teeth sure seems like a lot!

Hygiene and Letter V

This week we learned a funny word - hygiene. (It was fun to say!)

We helped the Lamb Chop puppet get ready for a bath. The kids all knew Lamb Chop needed soap and not a shoe in the bathtub. There were lots of giggles and lots of hugs for the puppet.

Snack time was serious work. The kids practiced making the letter V with pretzels and cheese sticks. It was fun to make them big and little.


It was really fun to make the letter V disappear!

We used glitter to see what happens to germs on our hands. The boys started with glitter on their hands but after a few hand shakes everyone had glitter. Wiping our hands on our clothes didn't get all the glitter off. We learned that hands need to be washed many times during the day and it takes bubbles (soap) to get them really clean.

The kids traced their hands on white paper then cut them out.

We blew bubbles with straws and tried to color the paper hands with just the dyed bubbles.

It was hard not to put the paper all the way into the water and it was most fun to BLOW BUBBLES.

We also practiced writing the letter V on our chalkboards.