Dental Health Month

Dental Health MonthThis past week first grade learned about keeping our teeth clean and healthy. Our class discussed different ways that we use our teeth and what we need to do to keep our teeth healthy. We also sorted a variety of pictures of food that are good and bad for our teeth. Each student created a giant toothbrush and wrote about the steps they follow when brushing their teeth each morning and night. We did a fun experiment including three eggs representing teeth and soaked them in Pepsi, coffee, and water for 24 hours to discover that Pepsi and coffee stain our teeth! We then used a toothbrush and toothpaste to try and clean off the stains. We were somewhat successful with removing the Pepsi stain but the coffee stain was really hard to get off. It was an interesting lesson teaching us that WATER is the best choice for our teeth! To conclude our dental health unit, we played a guess who game with all of our smiles! It was super fun trying to guess who’s teeth belong to who!