Happy Summer Birthday!
Posted by Hope Spencer on 10 Jul 2009 | Posted in: Classroom Routines, Holiday and Seasonal
My birthday is coming up soon! I have to say, having a summer birthday never really bothered me. I had friends who felt a bit cheated about not being able to celebrate their birthdays at school, but I guess I didn’t notice it. I always had a good time having a birthday party with my grandparents or with other relatives we were visiting during the summer. My little sister’s birthday was in the summer too, three weeks before mine, so I guess that helped me love a summer birthday. But, now that I think about it, it might have been fun to have my mother bring cupcakes to school on my special day just once.
In my classroom, I was careful to make a fuss over students with summer birthdays. Some years we celebrated half-birthdays. Other years, I asked students to choose a day that was special to them and we celebrated that day.
To celebrate, we sang to the birthday child and, depending on the grade I was teaching, decorated his chair, made a card in his honor, or wrote a poem for him. After all, the best part of a birthday, no matter what day it’s celebrated, is making the birthday person feel special.
Here’s hoping all of your birthdays are celebrated in style!
Hope
Congratulations to Kathy Dobbs, director of Kathy’s Family Daycare in Simi Valley, CA. She is the winner of a copy of The Big Book of Monthly Ideas (Pre-K) in our weekly blog drawing.
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Sometimes it is hard to think of a Birthday Idea, most of the time i want something which is both funny and sentimental..”;
I suggest that an individual celebration be available for any member. This means arranging half-birthday or other “unbirthday” for out-of-season birthday. My birthday is August 2, and yes, not getting a school celebration is an old complaint of mine.
(I am thinking that a combined summer-birthday celebration at, say, the end of the school year does cheapen the out-of-seeason birthdays.)
I do an un-birthday month. Usually there is one month that has one birthday or even none in it, so I make that the un-birthday month. In that month a child with a summer birthday can bring in treats on the day (number) of his/her birthday.
At our preschool, we have a Summer Birthday Celebration day during the last week of school. Parents of children with summer birthdays plan the party and provide all the goodies. All the summer birthday children get birthday crowns while the other children get party hats. Our summer birthday parties have become a preschool tradition and since our parents plan it - they are different every year.
As a child having my birthday in the summer was both good and bad. It was bad because I didn’t get to celebrate with my classmates but for my family it was the kick off of summer birthdays every two weeks. Whatever birthday money I might have received my siblings new they would get the same.
On the first Friday of the new school year I celebrate all summer birthdays. I make either cupcakes or brownies which ever the birthday students choose. I give each student a birthday activity book, a grade level book, a pencil, a crown and a card signed by the class. I also get my class roster early and send out birthday cards to those students with summer birthdays. As a kindergarten teacher I found that this even eases some of the first day anxieties by welcoming a student before he or she enters my room.
At our school, we celebrate half birthdays also. We have a snack sign up sheet out in the halway. I have the all birthdays( including half birthdays) marked on the calendar. The parents come and sign up for what day they would like to bring snacks then designate for birthday snacks. The children then make a birthday picture for that child in the morning. Then the birthday child can take it home with them at the end of the day. They also get a crown and we sing to them. I like the idea a letting the child choose the book of the day too.
I am a kindergarten teacher and we celebrate half birthdays. This way each child gets to celebrate their special day with a goodie bag provided by me and whatever treats the parents choose to bring in.
Hi,
I guess with the ending of school year was like a roller coaster. I neglected my few summer birthdays. I will try to do my best next year to honor their birthdays. My birthday is the july 18th and yes, I do wish it was during the school year. When I worked summer camp, they made a big deal. I think I will honor the summer babies in August since I usually only get one or two August babies since we start middle of August.
Lori
Happy Summer Birthday!
When I first started teaching second grade, I didn’t make a big deal about summer birthdays. Then I realized how left out some of my students felt. Now I have a big summer birthday celebration the last week of school. I contact the parents of students w/ summer bdays and arrange for them to bring in juice, fruit, cupcakes or cookie cake, and pizza. This has worked out well.
I’ve always tried to think of ways to include my summer birthdays during the school year. I usually have each student decorate a cake picture just the way they would want their birthday cake to be. Afterwards, we post them on the wall in a special location for all to see.
I teach Kindergarten and we celebrate summer birthdays near the end of the year, usually April, May and June. I have the parents pick a date that their child’s birthday falls on. For example, if their child’s birthday is July 2, then they can choose May 2. I have the parents bring in a special treat and read 1 or 2 books of their child’s choice to the class. Also, each child completes a birthday page for the birthday child. The page says: “If I could give you a birthday gift this is what I would give you.” Then the child draws what they would give the birthday child and I write what they have drawn. The cover is a birthday cake and the birthday child colors that. I staple the pages together to make a birthday book. I also give them a Happy Birthday pencil and a book mark. I read the book to the class and the children love it! Each child goes home with a birthday book!
For our summer birthdays, we celebrated one birthday a day until the last day of school. I made for a party filled countdown to the end of the year, and the kids had a blast!