Today we celebrated the final birthday of the year! Birthdays are something special in Kindergarten. From the moment the birthday child steps onto campus on their special day they are recognized. From being sung to by the entire school at our Tecolote Tuesday meeting, to a sweet rendition of “Feliz cumpleanos” in Spanish class, we strive to make birthdays extra special! (Summer birthdays are celebrated too, as half birthdays, six months from the students’ actual birthday!) Parents are invited to bring in a birthday treat to share with the class and also to help celebrate! Before we sing “Happy Birthday”, the birthday child chooses whether or not we add cha cha’s to the song. Then we pass the treat around, waiting to eat until each child is served. There is great fanfare as the birthday child takes the first bite! Then the others join in and the treats disappear!

So if we have celebrated everyones birthdays, that can only mean one thing….the school year is almost over! (sniff, sniff!)  I can’t believe there are only 17 more days of school remaining until these amazing kiddos become first graders…where did the year go?