Dental Health

This morning we read The Tooth Book, which is a fun nonfiction book about dental health. The book contains lots of fun facts about teeth as well as information about how to take care of your teeth.  We learned a lot of interesting things. For example, did you know that small birds pick at crocodile's teeth to keep them clean? Everyone agreed this was "disgusting" but also great to see two very different animals working together to help eachother.

After reading the book we reviewed how to take the best care of our teeth and why it is important to do so. Then, each student completed a worksheet with dental do's and dental don'ts as an assessment.

After we finished up our work we got to attend a special Kids and Cops presentation by a police officer in the pod. Kids and Cops is a great program that works with schools to teach kids that police officers are their friends and are here to help them if they need it. They talk about ways kids can be safe, and what to do when interacting with strangers. They visit our school each year and we find it is a great way to get kids to be comfortable with police officers rather than scared of them.

Doctor DeSoto

February is dental health month, so we are spending a bit of time this week focusing on what dental health means. We opened up the topic yesterday by reading a fun book: Dr. DeSoto.

To make connections to this book, each student made a page for our class book using the patterned text: I am Doctor _____. I would work on a _____.

Some of my friends had such creative ideas and took the time to really think about the details in their pictures! (I was also happy to see how many of my friends knew how to spell their last names!)