We love to see your smiles and it is nearly the end of National Smile Month (18th May – 18th June). When you smile it’s great to see your teeth especially when they are clean and bright.

Remember to:

• Brush your teeth twice a day in the morning and at night.
• Brush for two minutes with a pea sized amount of toothpaste
• At the end spit don’t rinse
• Reduce sugary foods and drinks and restrict them to mealtimes.

Why don’t you sing along with Hey Duggee’s toothbrushing song?

Activity

Next time you are brushing your teeth can you name the different parts you are brushing: the lower set,  front of your teeth, gums, back of teeth, biting surface, corners and upper set of teeth.

Sugar

Lots of us also love things that are sweet but sugar isn’t good for our teeth or bodies. Are you eating too much sugar?

https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/food-facts/sugar

Activity – Sugar Bags

Create bags with spoonfuls of sugar to show how much sugar is in a product you enjoy. You will find the amount of sugar in the nutrition panel of the product listed under “Carbohydrate of which sugars”. 1 teaspoon=roughly 4g of sugar so divide the figure on the packaging by 4 to get the number of teaspoons.

Mrs McGregor checked her yoghurt ingredient panel and found it contained 13.8g of carbohydrate as sugars. She measured out 3 ¼ teaspoons of sugar to show how much sugar was in the yoghurt.

 

 

Sugar swap 

Which items do you enjoy that you could swap for similar products with less sugar? For example, you could swap flavoured yoghurt for natural yoghurt with fresh fruit .

https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/food-facts/sugar/sugar-swaps-for-kids

You can find out more about Child Smile on their website:

http://www.child-smile.org.uk/parents-and-carers/index.aspx

We would love to see your smiles and healthy swaps – why don’t you post them in your Google Classroom to show your friends?

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