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Teacher’s/Leader’s Guide for Page 2—Parents Page Every We Wonder includes a guide for parents. Encourage parents to use this guide to help their children get the most out of the activities in We Wonder. Supports Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.3 Supports Counting & Cardinality Standards: CCSS.Mathematics.CC.K.1 CCSS.Mathematics.CC.K.5 Page 3—Clean teeth are happy teeth! Do all animals have teeth? Ask children to name animals that have teeth. Note that some animals do not. If dogs are not mentioned as toothed creatures, point out that they are. Children may be interested to know that human children have 20 primary teeth, and puppies have 43. Adult humans have 32 teeth, while adult dogs have 42. Pass out carrot sticks and ask children to notice what their teeth do when they eat them. (The front teeth bite the carrot; the back teeth chew it up.) Ask children if they think they would be able to chew favorite foods if they had no teeth. Working in small groups, have children tear or cut pictures from magazines of people eating, talking and smiling and make a collage on poster paper. Have each group share their collage with the class, describing what the pictures show. Supports Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.4 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.6 Supports Geometry Standard: CCSS.Mathematics.G.K.2 Page 4—Germs can make teeth hurt. Show the children 2 red apples (choose fruit that is unbruised and has no existing holes). Explain that even though teeth look hard like rocks, they are soft on the inside. Apples are soft inside, too. You can use the apples to help explain the decay represented by cavities in teeth. Poke a small hole in one apple. Ask children to think of the hole as being similar to the one germs can cause in teeth. Set both apples aside in a safe place. After a few days, cut the apple with the hole crosswise through the hole, to expose the decay that should have spread from the hole toward the center of the apple. Have children draw or write a description of what they see. Then cut open the apple with no hole. Ask children to draw or describe how this apple looks different. Use the children‘s drawings and descriptions to explain that good tooth care can help prevent tooth decay. Supports Speaking & Listening Standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1b Supports Writing Standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.2 Supports Counting & Cardinality Standards: CCSS.Mathematics.CC.K.1 CCSS.Mathematics.CC.K.3 We have healthy teeth! The activities below can help reinforce the material in this We Wonder ® workbook when used in the classroom. Many are experiential, helping students work together to better understand issues related to dental hygiene and to improve skills needed for success in school and life. You can also use these activities to help students meet select Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (CCSS.ELA) and for Mathematics (CCSS.Mathematics). Correlations to specific standards are listed below each activity. Visit www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy and www.corestandards.org/Math to learn more. 2014 Edition ©2004 Channing Bete Company, Inc. All rights reserved. (05-14-A) Channing Bete Company, One Community Place, South Deerfield, MA 01373 • 20D-0126 To reorder call (800) 628-7733 or visit www.channing-bete.com and ask for item number PS91988 Follow your organization’s policies and regulations (for example, those that apply to parental notification and consent) when using these activities. C O M P A N Y Channin ®