Teeth, teeth, teeth

Time to start a new Science topic! This half term, I wanted to do more about the human body - because the girls have started asking questions (How do we breathe? Why does exercise make me tired? What are our hearts for?) and it'll tick off a few of the NC targets for Year 2 to do with health, hygiene and living things.

To begin with, I thought we'd look at teeth because within the past couple of weeks F has got her first wobbly tooth (went to the dentist to make sure because I wasn't expecting it to happen for at least another year!) and M has got an adult tooth growing in behind her bottom incisors despite not having any teeth wobbly yet (yep, got the dentist to check this too and apparently very common! The adult tooth should force the milk teeth out, only rarely when it doesn't would they need to extract the baby teeth, so inshaAllah M won't need that to happen!) - lots of questions about what's going on in their mouths from them! So I thought it simplest just to do a couple of lessons on the subject instead of simply answering them. 😀

We began by looking through our science collection then working through the following sheets together:

You can download our worksheets here.

For the first sheet, the diagram of the teeth, I asked them how they could make it easier to understand (referring back to how we made a diagram of asteroids, comets and meteors), because it was already a drawing and it had labels... The answer was to colour it so all the same kinds of teeth were the same colour. When they were done they commented that it was really quick to see which kinds of teeth were where now. 👍