Dental Health

For Dental Health we discussed how many teeth children & adults have. We discussed the parts of a tooth and how to keep our teeth healthy. We also got to view xrays and did an experiment of what different types of drinks do to our teeth.

We first opened up with the story The Tooth Book by Dr. Seuss 

Then we discussed a little information and made our own tooth diagram...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were able to look at a few xrays and tooth model that Dr. Hoggle had for us...

We also played a game about what we eat and drink. I would ask the group if they eat certain sugary foods or drinks, whether they brush twice a day, or if they floss. For everything that was bad for a tooth, they had to draw a black dot on their "Tooth"...for the teeth we used egg crates. After we finished with our questions, they had to become the dentist. They used their pencils to "drill" out the cavities made from their dental mistakes. Finally, they had to put a filling into their teeth. We used regular tin foil for that!

 

 

 

 

We finished our day by checking on our eggs that we had placed in cups with different drinks. We left our eggs in the drinks for 24 hours. We noticed that water did nothing to our teeth, but we were amazed about how brown our egg was from the coke! 

After we finished our day, we were able to go home with our tooth brushes that Dr. Hoggle gave us and a cool coloring book!

 

Spelling Game

For our spelling game, we split the room in half and made Team A & Team B.  A player from each team met at the table. I called out one spelling word and whoever hits the bell first gets to spell the word. If they spell incorrectly, the other player gets a turn. We have so much fun playing this game and it helps us learn our words! 

He knew this word and was ready!

So intense...

Looks a little worried...who will ring it first?!

Valentine Synonyms & Antonyms

First I have to show you my cute cookie from PTA and my valentine "You are my main SQUEEZE" to my students.

 We have been learning about synonyms and antonyms during Grammar. We had a cute little sheet full of valentine cupcake clipart with 2 words on each. They had to decide if the words were synonyms or antonyms. Synonyms were yellow and antonyms were red. 

Valentine Robot

Precious Valentine Robot from Ms. Mort. 

The head is made from an upside down pudding cup with googly eyes and a drawn happy face. The body is a juice box with smarty arms. He has a cute little chocolate heart, as well as chocolate heart feet. We are so blessed to have our wonderful UWA clinical student!!

Lady Liberty

We have began our Lady Liberty lessons at WES. We even got a visit from her! We are so excited about it all. We have practiced songs, discussed where Lady Liberty is located, why she is the greenish color, who built her, and how she got across the ocean to USA. We look forward to all the new discoveries we will learn about our country.

How do bees pollinate

First, we broke into groups of 3. Each person in each group had to pick one item from their baggies to pick up "pollen" (flour) from the cupcake liner to their flower. They could only use one hand to do all of this.

 "Can we hold the liner still?!", they all asked. "No!", replied the smiling teacher..."bees don't get to hold their flowers still, do they?" <-- true story, haha

Of course the students chose items that made it easy to scoop, but I had a trick up my sleeve. I had the students try the experiment again...but this time they could only choose fuzzy items. Craft pom poms, pipe cleaners, etc. They discovered it was harder to get alot of pollen and saw just how busy bees have to be. They also discovered how pollen may stay behind on bees and could travel with the bee. Continue through the pictures to see what we did next...

Flour left behind on our pom poms...I mean "pollen on our bees"

After the flour activity, we did a cheetos activity. We glued a cupcake liner into the center of a clipart flower. I filled each with cheetos. Then we dug in and had a nice little snack. But then we had those cheeto fingers!! So what did we do? We imagined that the crumbs on our fingers was pollen and we sprinkled it all over our flowers. Then we sprinkled pollen on our friends flowers. After we were finished, we wrote all about our discoveries.