Field trip to the dentist!

What have our Big Kids been doing on the last weeks? Now we are talking about our bodies! It’s been fun getting to know how our bodies work.

We’ve done different experiments and even cooked fun snacks that look like mouths. Yeah, last Tuesday children learned about their teeth and why we should take care of them. We learned that each tooth is called in a different way depending on the way they look. We have the incisors, canines, premolars and molars. Heron, Asher and Mason helped me drew the different teeth on a big piece of paper for everyone to see. Even Emily, who was a little bit sleepy and not feeling very well, wanted to draw a tooth as well. Well done guys!

We compared our teeth to those of a lion and a bunny. A tiger’s big canines help him hunt and eat meat while a rabbit’s teeth are made specially to cut grass and vegetables, therefor, he has big incisors.

To end up our BKC session we made this fun snack idea I took from one of Talia’s classes when she was talking about sharks’ teeth. It was, healthy (Apples) and maybe not as healthy (marshmallows and one dark chocolate.) The dark chocolate represented what happens to our teeth if we don’t brush them, they loose their shinny nice color.

On Tuesday, we head to Star Dental and we met with some very nice ladies that welcome us and had prepared a very fun experience for us. They thought us so many things about our teeth.

The first thing they did as soon as we arrived there was to give my big fieldtrip experts of the day:  Maksim, Asher, and Dez some small containers to make bubbles.

They showed us the dentist’s office and even though Maksim said that the dentist made him a little bit nervous he seemed like he was having a good time. He was very participative and couldn’t wait to start making some bubbles. But… before that, they each took a turn sitting on the special chair they had there. It was a very fun chair since it could bend in so many ways and go very high or very low. The first one to go was Dez so Maksim and Asher were very excited to go next but waited patiently.

They wore special sunglasses which protect their eyes from the bright light that dentists use when checking their teeth. When one of the ladies asked Maksim how many teeth he thought he has, his answer was “40” but we found out that he actually has 20 teeth in total. When these children grow up though, they will have a total of 32 grown up teeth!

After learning about the different kind of instruments they use to check and fix our teeth, it was finally time to make some bubbles. They all started to make so many bubbles so the bubbles brought the attention of the tooth fairy! She was wearing her awesome sparkly fairy clothes and she was very excited to teach us the correct way to brush our teeth. She brought with her a special friend, “Mr. Crocodile.”

He had a very very nice smile and I believe Maksim really liked him because he asked one of the ladies if he could take him home. Unfortunately, the answer was a no. Mr. Crocodile needed to stay there since it helps a lot of children learn how to brush their teeth.

After that, they had their thumbs made in a special material used when they want to take a mold of people’s teeth. While they waited for them to dry, we all listened to some fun stories about teeth. At the end of our visit, they all got a special gift with stickers, tooth paste, and a tooth brush.

Thanks Star Dental. We had a great time!