I got to sit-in during another teacher's "Birthday Circle" yesterday. I had never heard of a teacher doing this before! She invites the parents in and any siblings that attend the school. The child sits in a chair in the circle and gets a crown with paper candles on it for their age. The teacher lights candles (for real!) and sings a song while he blows out one at a time. Yesterday the boy turned six so the song went something like "there are 6 candles he blows one out now there are 5..." and so on. After all the candles were blown out she lit them again and he got to pick a song for every candle. He could pick any song they have ever sung! He chose the Hokey Pokey, ABC song, and Captain Kind. If you have never heard of Captain Kind it is a comic book charter that fights bully. These kids knew every word to the song!!
After the birthday circle (which lasts about 30 min) the children wrote "happy birthday ___" in their planner and the parents passed out cupcakes and juice.
I personally don't need to do such an elaborate thing for every child's birthday (they have 2 more birthdays next week) because it took up a lot of time and if a child's parents were unable to bring in snacks or come in it would be very obvious. But I definitely liked giving the child some special attention for their special day!
-Miss Hansen
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