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The My Bright Smile App• Playing the games will get students excited about oral health. Jumpstart

the adventure by introducing students to Dr. Rabbit. Share that he will provide instructions at the beginning of every game and tips while playing.

• Remind students to carefully listen for tooth-friendly tips.

App-tastic Adventures with Dr. Rabbit

WhatStudents explore and apply Bright Smiles strategies through a series of engaging games in the My Bright Smile App.

Getting Ready• Supplies

— The My Bright Smile App • Prep

— Download the FREE My Bright Smile App (available on the iPhone App Store and Android App on Google Play) on each student device

NEW! Lesson

App Adventures Explore the My Bright Smile App in a variety of interactive ways with your students. Play a single game as a whole class using a device and connected screen. This can be a great way to introduce or review Bright Smiles strategies. Group students in pairs or small teams where they can share a device while discussing the Bright Smile games. Provide individual students with their own device to develop their healthy smile habits independently.

Invite students to explore their favorite FREE app adventures at home. Each My Bright Smile game reviews key oral health messages while providing a fun way for families to share and play.

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Extend the Visit the Dentist vocabulary game while developing speaking and listening skills. Play the classic classroom game, “What’s in the Bag?” Place a single item (e.g., a toothbrush, floss, toothpaste) in a brown paper bag and provide students with three clues describing the item. Students take turns asking yes or no questions and guessing what the item might be.

Brushy Bonus!

• Learn healthy brushing techniques to help maintain a Bright Smile. Students can choose from one of four characters and seven different colored toothbrushes.

• Ask students to share their brushing know how with the classroom community. Which character and toothbrush color did they choose? What techniques did they use to help clean the character’s teeth? How do we practice proper brushing?

Getting ready for a visit to the dentist office is fun and nerves-free after families investigate oral health care tools in Dr. Rabbit’s office. Encourage families to use the game to discuss the benefits of visiting the dentist and discovering the tools a dentist uses to help care for teeth.

Create a healthy habits bulletin board with pictures of students and their toothbrush along with a tip from each student on proper brushing and oral health care.

Brushy Bonus!

Encourage families to play the Brush the Teeth game then try out the brushing techniques together as part of their daily healthy habits.

Bright Smiles Key Message: Brush twice a day, especially after breakfast and before bedtime

• Join Dr. Rabbit and Dr. Brushwell in a dentist office adventure. Students identify and select the correct image for each oral health vocabulary word.

— Vocabulary: dental chair, dentist, floss, googles, gloves, mask, teeth, toothbrush, toothpaste, x-ray

• Encourage students to share their new Bright Smile vocabulary by asking them to describe a dentist’s office. What tools does a dentist use? What does a dentist office look like?

Bright Smiles Key Message: Visit the dentist regularly

Visit the Dentist

Brush the Teeth

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Have students practice flossing using yarn (floss), the bottom of an egg carton (teeth), clay, and small items (food and built up plaque). Students can count the 12 “teeth” and follow sequencing to place small items and clay in between the teeth before using flossing strategies to defeat plaque buildup.

Brushy Bonus!

Encourage students to share ideas for keeping a healthy smile while trying the Fun with Floss mazes at home.

Remind parents that they should floss for their child until he/she reaches the age of 8.

Bright Smiles Key Message: Floss daily

Fun with Floss

• Floss away plaque and explore oral health vocabulary! Maneuver through a series of mazes with powerful floss that helps remove food and plaque. After completing each maze, students match the successfully flossed food images with the corresponding written word.

• Reflect on the benefits of flossing with students. What food items did they clean away in the maze? Why should we floss each day?

Have students practice sorting sweet and sticky snacks and healthy food choices using plastic toy items or empty food packages. Students can also identify and count healthy food choices made by storybook characters. Are their favorite characters choosing healthy snacks?

Brushy Bonus!

Encourage students to share healthy food snack ideas from the Swipe the Sweets game.

Bright Smiles Key Message: Limit the number of times you eat sweet and sticky snacks

Swipe the Sweets

• Help Miguel swipe away sweet and sticky snacks and save healthy food choices on the grocery store conveyor belt. After each successful round, students match the healthy snack images with their corresponding written word.

• Explore healthy snack choices with students. What healthy foods in the game do you like?

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Discuss what each puzzle picture shows us while at circle time. For example: Dr. Rabbit’s office has two friendly dentists and tools to take care of our teeth. It shows us it can be fun and helpful to visit the dentist. Have students share strategies for solving the puzzles.

Brushy Bonus!

Encourage students to try solving a puzzle at home and share Dr. Rabbit’s a Bright Smiles strategy with their family.

Bright Smiles Key Messages: Brush with fluoride toothpaste at least twice a day,

floss every day, visit the dentist regularly, and limit the number of times you eat sweet and sticky snacks

Picture This

• Pictures are worth a thousand words but these oral health scenes are all mixed up. Students help Dr. Rabbit by sliding tiles to complete four different puzzles. Each puzzle reviews a Bright Smile strategy.

• Practice solving a puzzle as a class or with small groups at a station. Ask students to describe how each puzzle picture is like part of Brushy’s story. What things does Dr. Rabbit want us to know about taking care of our teeth?

Try the Brushing Song during classroom brushing time. Students can also begin to watch a clock and timer to track the two minutes.

Brushy Bonus!

Encourage students to use the Brushing Song at home. Were they able to brush for two minutes? Do they love brushing as much as Brushy Brushalotamus?

Bright Smiles Key Message: Brush twice a day, especially after breakfast and before bedtime

Brushing Song

• Brushing our teeth becomes fun and easy when we put it to a tune and timer. Support students in developing the healthy habit of regular brushing by practicing brushing techniques with real toothbrushes or by miming for two minutes.