Saturday, January 10, 2009

Brush your teeth!

Ahhh bless their hearts, but some of my kids have the worst smelling breath ever! Don't your parents teach you to brush your teeth?
"Ms. T- um, well, um" Gosh spit it out girl- you're killing me with your breath! Haha just yesterday I was sitting at a table helping one student with their writing, and another student comes and stands right next to me so we're eye level. She starts talking and I have to stop breathing! It's THAT bad. It smells like she woke up in the morning, went straight to school, stuffed her face with some cafeteria breakfast food, spent the morning in my classroom without even wiping her mouth and then came back from lunch with even WORSE smelling garlic/ onion breath.
All I have to say is that I'm dedicating a lesson next week to personal hygiene and how important brushing your teeth is. Unbelievable that the parents don't notice their child's breath smells so putrid.

2 comments:

Ms. Peace said...

I can't stand doing the DYO assessments for that very reason! I think I'm going to give each child a breath mint before they begin.

Teacher said...

Ooo, I have the same problems... Great idea, Peace! I might have to start handing out breath mints. The peppermint is supposed to spark brain activity (or say they say)... But even better, would make it manageable to breathe while working with those students!