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Children will identify ways different animals keep their teeth clean.

Health and Safety Focus: dental health

Science Focus: animal teeth

CCSS (and states that have similar standards): RI.1.1, RF.1.3, RI.1.7, RI.1.8, W.1.2, L.1.1

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• This book gives facts about the teeth of all sorts of animals— including crocodiles!
• Hilarious illustrations show what kids could do if they were to have the teeth of each animal. Facts about human teeth are included at the end.

• Together, find and circle each ea that makes the long e sound. (Hint: It is in the same word each time it appears!)

Skill: dental health, writing

Materials: Make a Healthy Mouth Sentence Strips skill sheet, red and pink construction paper, pencils, scissors, small white pom-poms, glue, string

• Give each child a sheet of each color construction paper. To make the red part of the mouth, have children fold their red sheet in half along the long edge. Then have them cut a half-oval shape, leaving the folded side intact. Next, have children cut a tongue shape from the pink paper. You can also precut the shapes if you’d like.
• Have children open the red oval and glue the tongue shape on the lower half. Then have kids glue 10 white pom-poms around the bottom half and 10 around the top half. This represents the 20 baby teeth kids have!
• As the glue dries, hand out the sentence strips and have kids complete the sentence. Then have them glue the strip to the roof of the mouth.
• Kids can use their mouths to practice flossing! Have them use string to “clean” between the pompoms.