My What Big Teeth You Have!
Celebrate the loss of a baby tooth and the growth of permanent teeth while learning to read, write and measure your teeth.
Graph the lost teeth by month and write to the Tooth Fairy. Cuddle with the Big Bad Wolf and all his big teeth. Count your friend's teeth or help the alligator learn to floss.
So open up wide and let the learning begin...
Teeth: Table of Contents
- Tales of Teeth
- Thirty White Horses
- Brush, Brush, Brush Your Teeth
- Science of Teeth
- How Teeth Bite and Grind
- Mathematics of Teeth
- Missing Tooth Graph
- Which kind of Toothpaste Do You Use? Graph
- Teeth and Pillow Game
- Losing a Tooth Around the World
- Brush Your Teeth with Raffi
- All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
- Tooth Fairy Literacy Bag
- Lost Tooth Literacy Bag Stuffers
- How the Tooth Fairy Came to Be
- All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth
- Lenses with more toothy ideas:
- Donate to My Two Front Teeth
- Look Who's Twittering about the Tooth Fairy
- Lost Tooth Tales
- Meet the Author of this Lens
Tales of Teeth
The Tooth Fairy and her Teeth
Cuddle up to the Tooth Fairy or some of her teeth and read a great book about teeth like The Real Tooth Fairy.
After Elise loses her first tooth, she lies awake and waits for the tooth fairy's visit, only to discover the tooth fairy is her own mother! Later, her mother tells her the tooth fairy can disguise herself to look like someone the child knows and trusts.
![Tooth Fairy Puppet [Toy] [Toy] [Toy]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BjJdQVK8L._SL75_.jpg)
Open Wide
There's Teeth Inside!
"Before the principal's announcements, will you all please stand and recite our pledge:
" pledge allegiance to this mouth and to the dentist who takes care of us. And to the gums on which we stand, strong and healthy, with toothbrushes and toothpaste for all."
It's time for tooth school and Dr. Flossman is excited to meet the incoming class of 32--eight incisors, four canines, eight premolars, and twelve molars, including the four wisdom teeth.
There's just so much to learn--from brushing and flossing to dentin and pulp to every student's nightmare: tooth decay!
Best read with a toothbrush in hand, this hilarious book is full of interesting facts.
Thirty White Horses
Tooth Riddle
Thirty white horses upon a red hill,
Now they tramp, now they champ, now they stand still.
What are we?
(teeth)
- Thirty White Horses on a Red Hill...
- Riddle Me This! Quilts by Denise Konicek
Brush, Brush, Brush Your Teeth
To the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Brush, brush, brush your teeth,Brush them night and day.
Up and down and all around.
Brush the germs away.
Floss, floss, floss your teeth.
Floss them every day.
Up and down and all around.
Floss the germs away.
Giant Toothbrush
This giant, 13 inch toothbrush is perfect to use as a pointer when reading Big Books or Charts about Teeth.
Amazon Price: $18.95 (as of 12/02/2009) 
Write about your teeth
1. Write letters to the Tooth Fairy.
2. Pretend to be a Tooth Fairy and write a response to someone else's letter.
The Tooth Book
After reading The Tooth Book several times you can model how to use highlighter tape to find words in a book.
Tooth Book Highlighter Tape Center:
Read the Tooth Book with a friend and highlight each time you find the words tooth or teeth.
Tooth Book Highlighter Tape Center:
Read the Tooth Book with a friend and highlight each time you find the words tooth or teeth.
Lose/Loose
Which one is which?
This confusion can easily be avoided if you pronounce the word intended aloud. If it has a voiced Z sound, then it's "lose." If it has a hissy S sound, then it's "loose." Here are examples of correct usage: "He tends to lose his keys." "She lets her dog run loose." Note that when "lose" turns into "losing" it loses its "E."
Brush Your Teeth
Alligators Floss their Teeth
Alligator Pie, Alligator Pie... after alligators finish their pie they must floss their teeth.
Encourage flossing by having children practice flossing the alligator's teeth.
The motion of flossing also helps with the fine motor coordination needed for writing.
Science of Teeth
Why do Dentists fill cavities?
Jimmie uses Lapbooks to help her child organize the information she has learned about teeth and cavities.
Photo Credit: Human Body Lapbook (Cavities)
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
1. Give each child an apple and have them carefully stab a fork into the apple several times.
2. Record the color of the inside of the apple.
3. Talk about how cavities are small holes in our teeth.
4. Let the apples sit out for a few days. The holes will turn brown.
5. After several days record what the apple looks like where the holes are.
6. Explain to them that is why the dentist fills in our cavities and why we need to eat food that is good for our teeth.
Learning Resources - Cross-Section Tooth Model
Amazon Price: $8.58 (as of 12/01/2009)
How Teeth Bite and Grind
Pliers are shaped like teeth and beaks.
Set up a sensory table with sheets of Styrofoam and pliers.
Provide safety goggles and work gloves.
Children experiment with the different pliers to see how teeth work.
NOTE: Be sure to model the use of the tools so that no one gets hurt.
Mathematics of Teeth
Missing Tooth Graph
As each child looses a tooth they write their name on a paper tooth cutout and add it to the Missing Tooth Graph.
The graph can be used to make comparisons such as there were more teeth lost in October than in March.
TOOTH WHITE MINI DIE CUTS 500 PK
Amazon Price: $2.49 (as of 12/02/2009)
Which kind of Toothpaste Do You Use? Graph
Photo Credit: Toothpaste Tube Project
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
Let the parents know well ahead of time that you will be making a graph of the kinds of toothpaste used by the children in the class.
1. Ask the children to bring in the box from the kind of toothpaste that they use.
2. Attach the boxes according to brands and compare.
My! What big teeth your have!
Measuring Teeth
1. Weigh the teeth that are lost.
2. Measure the circumference.
3. Ask children to bring in teeth lost by kittens or puppies in order to measure their teeth.
4. Read about the size of other animal's teeth. Find a picture of that animal's teeth and use an overhead projector to blow it up to actual size.
5. Line up the teeth you have measured from smallest to biggest and label the animals they come from.
Wolf Puppet
Amazon Price: $41.48 (as of 12/02/2009)
Counting Teeth
As children lose and then have teeth grow in the number of teeth in their mouths change quite often. A fun learning center is to have pairs of children count eachother's teeth. (Wash hands before and after.)
They might count the number of molars, then the number of incisors and then add the numbers together. They could write these number sentences on Tooth Shaped note paper.
How Many Teeth? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 12/02/2009)
What Happens to your Lost Tooth?
Teeth and Pillow Game
Carol Hartery crafted this project.
Match the coins on the pillows to the price on the teeth.
- Peter & Ellen's Tactile Teaching Tools
- Here are some examples of our Tactile Teaching Tools
Losing a Tooth Around the World
Does the Tooth Fairy replace it with a coin? Does a mouse come get it? Do you throw it on the roof?
Learn about losing a tooth all around the world.
Learn about losing a tooth all around the world.
Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World
Amazon Price: $6.95 (as of 12/02/2009)
Brush Your Teeth with Raffi
All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
"All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" is a Christmas song that was written by Donald Yetter Gardner. Gardner wrote the song in 1944 while teaching music at public schools in Smithtown, New York. He asked the class what they wanted for Christmas, and noticed that almost all of them had at least one front tooth missing as they answered in a lisp. Gardner wrote the song in 30 minutes. In a 1995 interview, Gardner said, "I was amazed at the way that silly little song was picked up by the whole country."
From Wikipedia
All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) (1999 Digital Remaster)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/01/2009)
Tooth Fairy Literacy Bag
Literacy Bags are a fun way to connect the learning at school with the learning at home. I include a stuffed toy, both a non-fiction book and several related activities as well as a journal to record experiences.
I try to send the Tooth Fairy Literacy Bag home with each child who has lost or is about to lose a tooth.
I try to send the Tooth Fairy Literacy Bag home with each child who has lost or is about to lose a tooth.
Tooth Fairy Tote Bag
Price: 19.99
Lost Tooth Literacy Bag Stuffers
Sal loses her tooth and wonders if the seagull and the puppy lose their teeth. Put a copy of One Morning in Maine into a tote bag with a couple of stuffed animals and a non-fiction book about teeth. Add a couple of tooth related games and activities and a tooth journal and you have all the ingredients for a fun filled Literacy Bag. Children will be begging to take homework home.
How the Tooth Fairy Came to Be
Tooth Fairy Stories
Learn more about the story of the Tooth Fairy.-
The Tooth Fairy -- How the legend came to be
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Once upon a time (after all, don't the best fairy tales begin this way?) there was a dentist who loved children. He and his wife wrote lots of lovely stories for their two boys, and for other children, too. One story in particular was very popular, f...
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth
Singing about Teeth at Christmas Time
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth
My two front teeth, My two front teeth
Gee, if I could only have my two front teeth
Then I could wish you, "Merry Christmas"
- All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
- Donald Yetter Gardner wrote All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth My two front teeth, My two front teeth Gee, if I could only..
Teeth
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Lenses with more toothy ideas:
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Alligator Pie
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Alligator Pie is a great poem for introducing the alligator theme. Use it in a reading chart and then go on to learn about the alligators. Alligators bring us eye to eye with the watery, muddy world of the swamp. Write a poem or explore an alligato...
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Woodchucks Under the Porch
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Woodchucks chuck wood and Groundhogs determine the coming of spring. They eat your garden, dig holes under the porch but look adorable when they are first born and start to venture out of their dens. Watching the woodchuck babies venturing out from...
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
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How do you feel about Gray Wolves? What do you know about wolves in general? Do wolves really dress in Grandma's clothes and eat little girls? In the Wolf Unit Study you can learn about the anatomy of these fascinating canines, where they live, thei...
Donate to My Two Front Teeth
MyTwoFrontTeeth.org is a nonprofit provider of online services which bring personalization, efficiency and simplicity to the charitable gift-giving efforts of community organizations throughout the country. Their online wish tree lets you give toys, prese
Look Who's Twittering about the Tooth Fairy
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- tiffanytwisted
- Dear sweet tooth fairy, u better be there this morning cuz this is my 2nd day in a row I'm driving to south Provo and my craving is dire.
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- WhoaMomma
- Confessions of a reall bad Tooth Fairy: http://tinyurl.com/ydbcnck
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- dstacyann
- RT @jaret2113: This week, the tooth fairy came and we visited Santa. I will never tell jack he will go blind for masterbating though; I ...
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- monka_192
- it was a start of a good day til i was reminded the tooth fairy forgot to show up...CRAP! this happens more often t ... http://lnk.ms/4ggcP
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- duhmyname
- bad bad tooth-ache! pretty please tooth fairy make it go away...):
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Lost Tooth Tales
What did you do with your teeth when you lost them as a child? Did the Tooth Fairy leave a coin under your pillow? How much did she leave?
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- Jimmie Jimmie Apr 29, 2009 @ 10:43 pm
- Oh! I see a photo from my daughter's human body lapbook here! That's so wonderful!
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- sandyspider sandyspider Apr 28, 2009 @ 11:01 pm
- Nice lens. It takes me back to the tooth fairy.
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- OhMe OhMe Apr 28, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
- Here you go again. You just amaze me. I would love to be a fly on the wall when you are carrying out some of these great lesson plans. Fantastic.
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- AndyPo AndyPo Apr 28, 2009 @ 4:26 am
- Another excellent lens
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- Intuitive Intuitive Apr 27, 2009 @ 8:44 am
- Who knew teeth could be so much fun? 5*
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