Kids "i Treat Club"
Hi Kid's,
" Your Lesson Essay " is your chance to choose and to write a short essay about an oral healthcare subject. Choose any subject from your “ Visits to GarGar The Dentist ”.
Sign it by your first name and the first letter of your second name or clearly request in your email another form of authorship because it will appear on this page.
Send it in an email addressed to: wallyweb@oralhealthcare.info
The SmileShine Gang will judge which of your submissions is of most interest to other club members.
YOU, can be any of the following:
· An Individual
· A Family
· Brothers
· Sisters
· A Primary School
· A Primary School Class
· A Youth Club
· Or Something Similar
THERE IS ONLY ONE RULE:
You or one of you must be a MouthWise School-on-the-Web Learner Member or a SmileShine Member of the ‘ I Treat Club ’.
Kid's have fun as you learn everything possible about the best ways to care for the beautiful things in your mouths. Your Teeth ! Your Gums ! Your Tongue !
You will be helping others to learn by sending in your essay.
4 Your Smile 2 Shine ‘Treat Your Mouth’, never just ‘Brush Your Teeth’
GarGar The Dentist
This email was received from :
Gordon D.
The essay subject :
“ The Top of My Tongue ”
The essay:
My mum has been teaching me and my little sister about the top of our tongues. When I poke my tongue out and look at it in the mirror I can see now that it is not really smooth. I used to think it was smooth. It has lots of tiny wrinkles on it which Mum says are like tiny fingers.
Mum did something funny to us. She made us look at our tongues in the mirror. Then she gave us a coloured drink. Then she made us look into the mirror again and our tongues were the same colour as the drink was. Mum says that is because the things in the drink are hiding in there.
GarGar’s Comments:
Thank you for your lovely essay Gordon D.
The things that cover the top of your tongue and that you see as wrinkles and GarGar calls tiny fingers in the book are really TASTE BUDS. There are thousands of them. Small amounts of whatever you eat or drink are trapped between these fingers. There are two ways you can tell they are still there.
Firstly as your Mum told you to do. Look into the mirror. If they are brightly coloured your tongue will be coloured. Of course, if they are not brightly coloured your tongue will not be brightly coloured. But they will be there.
Secondly, if whatever you have had to eat or drink is very nice and tasty to you, you will be able to taste it for a long time. Adults call that ‘a lingering taste’. Of course if it was a nasty taste to you it will taste nasty to you for a long time.
Just remember that bits of food and drink do hide on the top of your tongue. Even if you can not see them or taste them they are definitely there!
It is very important that you understand that bits of food and drink do stay on the top of your tongue for along time. It is very important to get rid of these bits when you use your mouth treater and mouth paste.
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