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The lesson plan, then the notes for every slide. Print on A4 and take the second sheet to the board.

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The Whole Bite Club · Prep to Year 2 · Lesson 4 · After the visit

Looking after my face and mouth

After the Whole Bite Club visit, this lesson focuses on personal hygiene, especially caring for our face and mouth. Building on the small-group session — where the Oral Health Home team checked children’s teeth, applied fluoride (with consent), and guided brushing and flossing — students learn that good daily hygiene keeps germs down and helps protect their teeth, and they build these habits into their morning and night routines.

Learning intention

In this lesson, we will learn how to look after our face and mouth every day, and why good hygiene keeps us healthy.

Success criteria

I will know I am successful when I can:

  • Explain why we practise good hygiene — to keep germs down and stay healthy.
  • Describe how I look after my face in the morning, for example by washing or wiping my face.
  • Show how to brush all parts of my teeth and use a small amount of fluoride toothpaste.
  • Explain why cleaning between our teeth is important.

Guiding questions

  • How do we look after our face and mouth each day?
  • What do we do in the morning to get clean and ready?
  • How does good hygiene help keep germs away?

Vocabulary

hygiene · face · wash · wipe · clean · brush · floss · toothpaste · fluoride · twice a day · swish and spit · germs

Australian Curriculum

AC9HPFP06, AC9HP2P06

Support

  • Use a printed mouth diagram and a toothbrush to demonstrate brushing, and let students copy the movements in the air.
  • Provide a simple picture sequence of a morning hygiene routine (wash face, brush teeth, and so on) for students to order.

Challenge

  • Students create a brushing chart to track brushing at home for two weeks.
  • Students make a “my morning routine” poster or a short demonstration to teach a younger class.

Resources

  • Foundation – Year 2 Supporting Resource Pack
  • Printed mouth diagram (poster or handout) and a toothbrush for demonstration
  • Two-minute timer (included in children’s toothbrushing kits from lesson 2) or 2 minute song
  • Brushing chart for home (one per student)

Worksheets to print

  • My routine · /downloads/my-routine-worksheet.pdf
  • What do I need to brush my teeth? (match and stick) · /downloads/what-do-i-need-to-brush-my-teeth-match.pdf
  • What do I need to brush my teeth? (draw it) · /downloads/what-do-i-need-to-brush-my-teeth-draw.pdf
  • Order the toothbrushes (Maths: measurement) · /downloads/order-the-toothbrushes.pdf
  • Lesson 4: Looking after my face and mouth (PowerPoint) · /downloads/decks/f-2/04-looking-after-my-face-and-mouth-slides.pptx
Oral Health Home · admin@oralhealthhome.com · www.oralhealthhome.com. Lesson text is reproduced from the Whole Bite Club teacher guide.

Looking after my face and mouth · handout for the whiteboard

Teacher notes, slide by slide

The number beside each note is the slide it belongs to, counting from the first.

  1. 1.TitleLooking after my face and mouth

    In this lesson, we will learn how to look after our face and mouth every day, and why good hygiene keeps us healthy. Remind students of the small-group session during the Whole Bite Club visit, where they practised brushing and flossing with the Oral Health Home team.

  2. 2.QuestionHow do we look after our face and mouth each day?

    Ask the guiding question: How do we look after our face and mouth each day? Record responses.

  3. 3.SlideKeeping clean keeps germs down

    Explain that keeping clean helps keep germs down — and, from Lesson 3, keeping germs down helps protect our teeth from decay.

  4. 4.QuestionWhat do we do in the morning to get clean and ready?

    Guiding question. Build a simple morning hygiene routine together on the board from the children's own answers, and discuss doing it every day.

  5. 5.SlideOur morning routine

    Talk about the things we do in the morning to get clean and ready — for example, washing or wiping our face, cleaning our hands, and brushing our teeth. Support: provide a simple picture sequence of a morning hygiene routine (wash face, brush teeth, and so on) for students to order.

  6. 6.SlideHow to brush well

    Demonstrate brushing on a printed mouth diagram: gentle movements over the front, back and chewing surfaces of every tooth, and along the gum line. Support: use a printed mouth diagram and a toothbrush to demonstrate brushing, and let students copy the movements in the air.

  7. 7.SlideJust a small amount of toothpaste

    Explain that we use a small amount of age-appropriate toothpaste. After brushing, we spit out the toothpaste; children under six take a small sip of water and do a gentle “swish and spit.” The amount and type of toothpaste depends on the child's age — follow the advice provided for your child.

  8. 8.GameBrush along

    Practise the movements together for two minutes using the timer, which lights up the mouth zone by zone. This replaces the timer or song in the guide's resources.

  9. 9.SlideCleaning between our teeth

    Recall that a toothbrush cannot reach between our teeth, so cleaning between them (for example, with floss) helps remove what the brush misses — just like in the small-group session. Demonstrate gently using the printed mouth diagram.

  10. 10.QuestionHow does good hygiene help keep germs away?

    Guiding question. Link back to Lesson 3: fewer germs in the mouth means less acid, and less acid means fewer cavities.

  11. 11.WorksheetMy routine

    Worksheet: My routine. Students sequence and illustrate their morning and night routine, including brushing, and start a two-week brushing chart to take home. Challenge: students create a brushing chart to track brushing at home for two weeks.

  12. 12.RecapGood daily hygiene

    Review the key message: good daily hygiene — washing our face, cleaning our hands, brushing twice a day, and cleaning between our teeth — keeps germs down and helps protect our teeth. Students commit to one hygiene goal for the week and take home their brushing chart.

Oral Health Home · admin@oralhealthhome.com. Prototype handout.

Where this comes from

  1. The Whole Bite Club Teacher Guide · Oral Health Home. Held by Oral Health Home; not published online. The Foundation to Year 2 lessons themselves. Every lesson in this band is transcribed from the guide without paraphrase, so the guide is the source for the plan as well as for what it teaches.
  2. Toothbrushing – children 0-6 years · Better Health Channel · Opened 5 September 2026. Brushing twice a day, about two minutes, every surface and along the gum line, and spitting the toothpaste out rather than rinsing it away. https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/toothbrushing-children
  3. Dental Care For Kids · Australian Dental Association · Opened 5 September 2026. That cleaning between teeth starts once two teeth touch, which is why a brush on its own is not the whole job. https://teeth.org.au/dental-care-for-kids
  4. Brushing teeth for kids: picture guide · Raising Children Network · Opened 5 September 2026. How much toothpaste a child of each age uses, and that from six it is the ordinary family kind rather than the little-children kind. https://raisingchildren.net.au/school-age/health-daily-care/dental-care/brushing-teeth