Happy Birthday to Us!

Birthdays birthdays birthdays! We love our birthdays :) This week for our theme, we are exploring what month we were born in, how old we are, and how old we will be turning. Each child was given a candle and asked to stick it on their birthday month. We then created a class graph to see how many of us were 5 and who is 6. Did you know May had the MOST amount of birthdays and February, March, June, August and November had the LEAST amount of birthdays? Talk to your child about most vs. least!
 
Guess what? We created and read our first book! It was called "The Birthday Cake". First, we read the big book, The Birthday Cake by Joy Cowley. We realized this book follows a pattern and that we can use picture clues to figure out what the word is….

A red cake.

An orange cake.

A yellow cake.

A green cake.

A blue cake.

A purple cake.

A pink cake.

A brown cake.

A birthday cake!

After we read the big book, Miss Leone gave everyone their very own Birthday Cake book that followed the same pattern as the big book! We each took turns reading the words and touched each one as we read. On our own, we then colored our books to match the words and practiced reading our books three times so that our brains could grow! Take a look….

On Tuesday, Miss Leone gave everyone candles to decorate. We talked about how if we are 5, we will get 5 candles. If we are 6, we get 6 candles to decorate. On Friday for theme, we will water color our very own birthday cake and add the candles so we can hang these up in our classroom!