Dental Health and Hygiene

Dental Health and Hygiene

I have always liked to closely follow up the health theme with dental health. Dental health is such an important topic at this age as the kids are slowly beginning to lose their baby teeth and their adult teeth grown in. Dental health week included whole group discussions on ways to take care of our teeth. The main educational goal of the week was to have the students memorize “The Four Ways to Keep Our Teeth Healthy.” 1. Brush your teeth every day 2.)Floss your teeth everyday 3. Eat fruits and vegetables and 4. Visit the dentist twice a year.

We also learned a new song about brushing our teeth - Sung to Oh my darling Clementine

 Brush your front teeth Brush your back teeth

Brush the bottom and the top

If you brush them each and everyday

Then your smile will never stop

We practiced brushing our teeth and sent the kids home with a new tooth brush at the end of the week. And we are very excited to get a visit from Dentist this up coming week. Here is a little look at the crafts we made during dental health week. 

A mouth made with marshmallows

A jumbo tooth brush - complete with bristles and tooth paste.

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A tooth painting - painted with a tooth brush

That is a little look at our Dental Health Week. Hope you enjoyed!

Thanks for stopping by,

Mrs. Winter

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

I love Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is such a great opportunity to teach the students about acceptance, kindness, and standing up for something that you believe in. For MLK day we discussed the history of the Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement.  We watched some great informative and kid friendly videos on scholastic.com.

For one of the main parts of the day we talked about ways we could make the world better place.  We listened to the song My Own Two Hands by Jack Johnson and I asked the students to close their eyes and listen to words. The thought the reggae music was silly but it led to a great discussion on what we can do on the preschool level.

I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make it a better place
With my own two hands
Make it a kinder place
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
I can make peace on earth
With my own two hands
I can clean up the earth
With my own two hands
I can reach out to you
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
I'm going to make it a brighter place
With my own two hands
I'm going to make it a safer place
With my own two hands
I'm going to help the human race
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
I can hold you
With my own two hands
I can comfort you
With my own two hands
But you've got to use
Use your own two hands
Use your own
Use your own two hands
With our own
With our own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands

And to wrap up the day we painted with water colors. The kids really love water colors because it gives them a chance to be completely creative.

Thanks for stopping by,

Mrs. Winter

Health and Hygine

Health and Hygiene

We are half way through flu season (Thank God Almighty) and have been spending a lot of time discussing health with the kids. We’ve probably gone through a gallon of sanitizer but have been teaching the kids to cough and sneeze into their elbows. Along with teaching how to stop the spread of germs I talked with the students about ways that we can stay healthy. We discussed the combination of eating healthy and exercise. Exercise is a particular favorite of these busy bodied preschooler. (What I would do for ¼ of their energy)

One of the highlights from the week was a visit from a Doctor from a nearby Medical Center. The kids were able to discuss health with the Doctor and ask all kinds of health questions. They were shown a video about how to stop germs and stay healthy AND they got the chance to listen to their own heart beat on the stethoscope. Pretty cool if you ask me.

And naturally we had some precious and fun crafts for the week:

 

These crafts were tons of fun. (Although I can’t take credit for the last one – these were posted outside the kindergarten room and thought they were too cute to not share )

Well friends, I hope that you are staying healthy during this flu season.

Thanks for stopping by!

Mrs. Winter :)