"We're riding the Earth in a great spinning circle around the Sun, from your birthday to your next birthday.... You will need exactly 364 more sunrises, all clouds included."
"In Debra Frasier's A Birthday Cake Is No Ordinary Cake we circle the Sun collecting the ingredients for our cake: summer shade, red leaves, snowy shivers, and robin's song."
Related Activities:
- Visit the author's webpage for related classroom activities such as a paper plate cake clock and birthday booklets.
- Make a birthday graph and count how many birthdays are in each month of the year. You might want to include other classes, staff members, or classroom visitors in the graph!
Other Birthday Books:
Thanks for these titles. I'm only familiar with one so I'm looking forward to checking out the rest.
ReplyDeleteA birthday unit is so fun. You could count candles, make birthday cakes with play-doh, paint balloon templates and add string for a display! Oh the possibilities! Thanks for sharing:)
ReplyDeleteHi Marcia and Centers and Circle Time,
ReplyDeleteSorry for the delayed reply (read my Back on the Wagon post) but thanks for your responses. I'm glad both of you found something useful from the post. The ideas are endless!