Kinder-Prep with Mrs. Jeana!: Dental Health

We had such a fun week!!

The class loved these teeth play-dough mats.

This was such a cute Pinterest idea to help the children learn the importance of flossing! They took "floss" to get the food out of the teeth. (or... yarn to get the play-dough out of the lego ;)

We had a very special visit from Dr. Jenkins, a dentist! He was great with the kids and told them all about "sugar bugs" and how important it is to brush and floss to keep them away!

Dr. Jenkins brought a couple guests with him. Evan loved brushing Bobo's teeth. :)

The kids loved this activity. They used toothpaste (white paint) and toothbrushes to brush the teeth.

We played a fun sorting activity in circle time. Each child had a card with a food picture on it. We decided together if the food would make our teeth happy or sad. This was a little confusing for them at first! I told them food that made our bellies happy doesn't mean it makes our teeth happy. ;)

We also played this game in small groups. They started understanding a little more and really had fun!

We also did more sorting this week, this time by size.... small, medium, and big.

Here they are working on their shapes!! They colored the shapes and the floss inside. Some of the children even traced the shapes.

I love how engaged they were in this book.

Mrs. Beth thought it was so cute how they were feeling their teeth.... then Myla saw the camera. ;) so cute.

Our letter of the week was D for dentist.

As we worked on our D craft, we sang our usual letter song. They traced the letter with their finger first then glued their D pictures to their paper.

They also loved this cute craft. Marshmallow teeth :)

We were able to squeeze one extra craft in this week and get more practice with names. The children also got to practice their cutting skills while making these cute name toothbrushes.

We got to have "neighborhood time" this week with the other two classes. We open the doors for the children to all play together and go to any class they want (since it has been too cold to go outside!) The kids love it. Here a couple of the girls were playing dress up. ;)

All our babies sure love Mrs. Beth. She is so wonderful with them! I told her if I didn't teach here, what a comfort it would be to know my child was in her care. I knew you all would love to hear that too. She is so sweet with all of them!!!