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ACTIVITIES – Dental Services
Learning Outcomes
Daily Routines
Activities for teaching staff ACTIVITY 4
Health Benefits
Supervised tooth brushing twice a day with a fluoride toothpaste is an essential part of keeping teeth healthy. Teeth should be brushed in the morning and again last thing at night
Discussing meals can help the children look at achieving a balanced diet.
Learning Outcomes
To have personal independence in personal hygiene (P & SD)
To use appropriate mathematical language related to time (M)
To listen and talk about their experiences ( L&L)
Activity Raise children’s awareness of the daily routines which are essential to good health
Group Size Up to four children
Resources
Scissors, pens, pictures from magazines, glue & paper.
Suggestions for carrying out the activity
Talk to the children about the routines in their day
Let the children look for pictures of daytime routines such as getting up, washing, eating at mealtimes, cleaning teeth etc and cut them out
Glue the pictures on circles of card and create a display board labelling the different routine times and write relevant captions under each one
Discuss with the children why and when they need to carry out the routines such as tooth brushing and discuss what they may eat at their mealtimes
Further Ideas
Use the pictures to create simple books
Dramatise the routines with physical actions.
Headquarters: Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust 2nd Floor, Mallard Court, Express Park, Bristol Road, Bridgwater TA6 4RN Tel: 01278 432 000 Fax: 01278 432 099 Email: [email protected] Web: www.sompar.nhs.uk
Date Issued: January 2016 Review Date: January 2018 Author: Somerset Primary Care Dental Service Ref: SS DENT AS004 v2
Adapting the activity for younger children
Play with children involving dolls, puppets etc and pretend to get them to carry out these routines.
Home Links
Write to parents requesting items for the activity
Ask parents to help complete an illustrated diary of the family routines.
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