My class is currently learning to tell their birthday. We’ve been practicing with the Jack Hartmann song “Birthdays” (from the Math All Around Me CD) where the children “stand up when I say the month your birthday comes”. They ask me to play that song every day.
Here’s a printable birthday book I made for the traditional birthday rhyme “Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums”. The rhyme goes “Apples, peaches, pears, plums. Tell me when your birthday comes.” I read this book to my class today, and I had the children stand for their birth month. Then, I pointed to each child’s name on that page, and had them say the month and day. (About half the class is able to say month and day so far.)
To make the book, print it and write the children’s names on the page of their birth month. To make it reusable, laminate first and write the names with a wet erase marker. There are several ways to bind the book. You can laminate the pages and bind it with a plastic binding comb. You could slip the pages into page protectors and bind them together with metal binder rings. I like to use a “presentation book”. These are found in office supply stores, and they have clear page protectors which are pre-bound into a book. All I have to do is slip the pages in and it’s ready (and reusable).
To print the book, click the button below.
You can find more pre-k birthday activities at Pre-K Pages: Birthdays and a Printable Birthday Crown and Certificate here at PreKinders.
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Very cute book Karen, thanks for sharing and thanks for the shout out
you’re welcome, my friend!
Thanks! I needed that!
hi Karen very interesting book. i love it. thank you for sharing it. do you have anything like that with transportation or healthy foods
Thanks for such a splendid idea. I will certainly do this in the coming school year.
I love the birthday book and know my students will go crazy over it! Unfortunately I can’t seem to get it to download. Is it possible for you to email it to me? Thank you for all of the wonderful ideas and downloads, they are an extreme help when planning for meaningful activities that my students will enjoy,
Karen
I always get excited to see an email from you. We use all of your ideas and the kids and teachers enjoy all of them. Thank you for your great website.
Thank you for all your help. The kids so exited when I use your ideas.
Thanks for the great graphic to practice birthdays. My preschoolers enjoy personalized class books very much.
Hi Karen,
the children love the Birthday Book.
Many thanks Lorraine
Thank you so very much! We are also focusing on Birthdays now as it goes along with our curriculum. I had made a quick birthday book for my class, but I love yours so much more! I look forward to sharing it with them next week!!
I can’t wait to do this. We have several upcoming birthdays. Love it!
Hi! Karen I love your idea about this birthday book. I will use it for sure, I ask my kids when this is their birthdate and they don’t know. I tried to teach them, but with this book will be amazing and easier to teach them, Thank you very much for all your good ideas, I really appreciated it.
Another awesome and fun idea, Karen! Thank you!!