BEFORE: This idea originally came to me from my mentor teacher while student teaching. One birthday bag for each month and then she used a pin to attach a birthday star in the eraser. So I did the same thing and kids love getting to have their pencil on their birthday. What I don't like is them trying to sharpen it...that filmy paper decorating the pencil is not friends with electric pencil sharpeners.
AFTER--This year, I trying out crazy straws. They came in packs of six for a dollar. I used the same star and taped it to the straw. I made some "flipped" calendar months for each of the bags, added some tissue paper and the finished straw.
Add some self adhesive magnet to the back.
BEFORE--They used to hang between windows, on a metal electrical strip, but my students last year kept bumping them, and they would fall down.
AFTER--I put them on the top of the whiteboard. Now all I need is to know birthdays of my new group of chickadees
On the chickadee's birthday, we sing this song:
It cracks them up! Then I take their straw out for them to keep. Maybe this year, I will need to get them a juice box, so they can try it out:-) My birthday was in the summer, so I never got to celebrate it at school or it would be combined with everyone else who had a summer birthday. I always hated that. So my summer birthday kiddos, we celebrate their birthday on their half birthday. That way they get their own day, just like all the school year birthdays.
Birthday Birthday
BEFORE: This idea originally came to me from my mentor teacher while student teaching. One birthday bag for each month and then she used a pin to attach a birthday star in the eraser. So I did the same thing and kids love getting to have their pencil on their birthday. What I don't like is them trying to sharpen it...that filmy paper decorating the pencil is not friends with electric pencil sharpeners. 
