Inside: This Classroom Birthday Book is perfect for classrooms to celebrate students in special ways that showcase kindness.
I was always the kid with the summer birthday and always felt like I got the short end of the stick.
Because while no one really wants to be in school on their actual birthday, there is something super special to being celebrated in your classroom with your classmates…the crown, the birthday pencil, being sung to, bringing in treats, and maybe getting your name announced on the loud speaker.
So my first year teaching, all of the summer birthday kiddos picked a random day in June that was their school birthday date and they got celebrated. I made them a crown, they brought in their cupcakes to share with everyone and they got a birthday book made by their classmates.
So even though by the end of June everyone was pretty much tired of cupcakes, we were able to properly celebrate each kiddo at school and made them feel special.
You can use this freebie printable for each of your students’ birthdays that celebrate their birthday, focus on kindness and lets students practice their letter writing skills all at the same time.
And if we can tie in kindness and writing as we celebrate a birthday, then it’s a triple win.
Other Ways to Connect With Students
Connecting with students is essential if we’re creating trust, respect, and getting them to feel safe in your classroom community because students will not learn unless they feel connected to us.
Related: Create a Positive Classroom Environment in Under 5 Minutes
We can connect with students in different ways lie with these Interactive Bulletin Boards.
You can bring a Compliment Box into your classroom to teach them how to lift up others. You can use these printable compliment notes.
You can also connect with students using these printable notes you can hand out to your students.
And we can read this Our Class is a Family:
And you can give each student a classroom book on their birthday from their friends.
How to Use This Classroom Birthday Book
1. Download and print the version that works best for your birthday child (female or male) and then one copy of p.8 for each of your other students (download it below).
2. The birthday child can decorate the cover of their book any way they like. They can color in their cake and draw in the correct number of candles to match their year. Make sure to offer them skin color crayons.
3. The other students will each fill in a page for the birthday child.
They can trace or write the student’s name.
They can rainbow write or color “Happy Birthday!”
They can write, trace, or dictate their messages to the student.
They can trace or write their name. And they can color in the pictures.
4. Bind the book together for the birthday student and present it to them as a gift from the class.
5. If you have time, read the book as a whole class, sharing why everyone likes this student and how they show kindness.
It will be a wonderful treasure the student will be able to take home with them and read with their family.
Download the Classroom Birthday Book here.
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