My daughters birthday is 3.5 weeks after kindergarten starts.
I am trying to decide if we should just do another family bday party (4-6 'kid' cousins might come). Or if I should plan on doing a 'kid' party instead... maybe at the local gymnastics center, but I'm not sure if she will know classmates well enough by then?
these will be all new kids, she won't know anyone from preschool or anything.
anyone's kids have a similar birthday time? wwyd?
ooo tracy i love your answer! i didnt even think of it like that. thanks.
my other question is, do most kindergarten kids invite the entire class? or just the girls? or just a few?
Personally, I would invite her entire class. It might be just the thing that she needs to make some new friends.
If it were me, I'd probably invite all of the girls in the class over for a bday party after school, at my house. Have cake and icecream and play some fun games. Let the kids have a little free time to play. 2 hours is a good amount of time for this. I think it would be a fun way for the kids to get to know and play together, especially since it's at the beginning of the year. Have fun!
My daughters birthday is the same way. She will know a few kids from preschool, but not all that many. I think I will give her a party and invite all the kids from her class. Not everyone will show and it will be a great way to get to know kids and make friends.
In elementary school birthday parties are THE social events. The kids talk about them in the days coming up to the party and the days following. I hadn't really understood this when my kids were young (mine are born end of July so it wasn't a direct issue for us) and my kids only went to the parties of kids they talked about that I knew they were friends with. Unfortunately, my kids missed some of the "important" social events of the years as a result. I recall my son, in particular, being upset that he didn't go to some big really cool party at a cool place - apparently every other kid went. We had declined becuase my son never mentioned this kid's name all year... Uh oh - it was THE topic of conversation for the next few days.
I'd say invite the whole class - it'll be a fun way to get the kids started in the year and you'll get to know the parents that way too.
I would agree with Tracy - invite the class, it will the perfect "ice breaker."
As for how many, I guess it would depend on how many kids there are and what your budget is, especially if it happens to be someplace that charges per kid. If there's like 30 kids in the class, it might be easier just to invite the girls. My daughter's kindergarten class will only have 7 kids in it, so that will make it easy for us to invite the whole class if it ever comes up!
I would check with the school. Our grandson's class would do a class party at the school after nap time each month for the birthday kids that month.
It was so much fun because everyone was there and having cake and stuff. It was so much cheaper and not a ton of presents, no hassle at all.
Otherwise I'd do the gymnastics thing. The kids would love that and it would be good for the business.
We did that for my grandson's 3rd birthday and several of his head start classmates came.
The gym and the owner's time to teach the group was $100 for a 2 hour time frame. The owner also supplied the tables, chairs, cups, plates, napkins, etc....as part of that cost. It was very easy. Since it's a small focused place there was only cake and punch.
we have late august and mid-sept birthdays in our house. at that age, we just invited the whole class. particularly in K and1st, it allowed the whole class to get to know each other AND the parents to get to know each other.
if you can't afford to do the whole class at a venue - just go to the park. everyone will still have a ton of fun.
ask her if she wants to do the whole class or just girls or just family - she may have a preference!
as they've gotten older and moved to sleepover parties, it's not as big an issue because they're somewhat set in who their friends are.
and through 2nd to 3rd grade, it was not uncommon for my kids to be invited to whole class parties.
My son's birthday falls 4 weeks after the start of school. He didn't know anyone in kindergarten to invite to a party. He had a lot of family friends at his Kindergarten birthday party and they all slept over.
If you don't have family friends like that (ours are from MOMS club), then I would invite the whole class.
the general rule at our school is all kids or all of the one gender.
My daughter will be in K this year. For her party, I will just send a special snack like mini cupcakes to the school. She also has afterschool activities that is a smaller group, so those are the kids that will be invited to any party we end up doing.
emmys school had a rule either the whole class or all girls or all boys so noone had hurt feelings.
It will be a month into the year. Of course she'll know the kids - she spends all day, every day with them. Invite the whole class. There is no chance that all of them will come, anyway.
My son, had his birthday shortly after starting school.
We had a party for him.
All we did was invite HIS friends.
He invited 4 boys.
And then there was us (mad & Husband), and his sister and Grandma and Aunty. And a couple of other parents that stayed instead of dropping off their kid.
That's all.
I NEVER... invited an entire classroom, per my kids' birthdays. We only invite, their friends. And this is my kids' choice as well. They NEVER want to invite an entire classroom.
