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| Happy Birthday Day |
| During the last week of school I schedule a BIRTHDAY DAY to celebrate the children who have their birthdays in the summer. Each summer birthday child wears a crown, we sing Happy Birthday to each one and we have cake and ice cream for the entire class! In addition to these simple events we make Birthday Day a Learning Day by doing the following activites!! |
| MONTHS OF THE YEAR REVIEW~ ~~Month Chant~~ (This chant was shared with me by Kindergarten Teacher and former co-worker, Alicia Wallace) January, February, March, April, May June, July, August~~Hooray! Hooray! September, October, November, December These are the months that I CAN REMEMBER! |
| Birthday Graph~ Each child is given a birthday cake pattern to write his/her name on and then we place them on a 12 month graph to count, tally and compare class birthdays by month. |
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| BIRTHDAY BINGO I made simple bingo cards with pictures of a cake, a balloon, a party horn, confetti, the words Happy Birthday, etc.... (You can find great clip art on the internet!) and we play a few games of Birthday Bingo before enjoying our cake and Ice Cream. When a child fills the entire card the child calls out "Happy Birthday!" |
| Pocket Chart Fun Happy Birthday to You... Have each child's name on a card to use on a Pocket Chart with the song Happy Birthday to You How old are you? ________is five. _______ will be six in June. Birthday Months John has a birthday in ___________. (Use month cards) |
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| And....Spend lots of time today sharing GREAT Birthday Books! |
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| LOVE This Book! |
| Birthday Journaling~ Children love having a birthday! On Birthday Day each child pretends it's their birthday and journals about a wonderful gift they would like to receive. I have them illustrate as well, and their pictures are wonderful because the kids are so excited just thinking about having a birthday! Copy each page and compile them into a Class Birthday Book! Since it's the end of the year I have Birthday Drawing and the winner gets to take the book home! |
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