 So each year all the students have a birthday in my class some of them have half birthdays if their birthdays in the summer When we are not in session and so for those half birthdays I do the exact same type of thing in the morning. I put pieces of paper on the students Desk and for the student whose birthday as I put this one happy birthday Thomas And I have made these all ahead of time and then on the other students desk I put a blank sheet of paper and what they do is they write their name at the bottom and they decorate the candles and the cupcakes and My instruction to them is please write a happy birthday wish to the birthday boy or birthday girl And so some like to write a lot Others just write one little thing and so we have lots of different ideas for wishes for the birthday Person that day and then when we have the birthday celebration We sing happy birthday, of course, and we usually do a little song and dance But most importantly I have each student read their wish to the birthday person that day So this is how I celebrate birthdays in my classroom students really like to hear from their classmates and their peers and it's also a way to kind of build community in your classroom because students are saying kind words about Each other and then they're saying then they're going ahead and speaking those kind words to them when they read their card to the Person so try this in your classroom this week