This video sums up the fun ahead for this week!

Share with us how YOU and YOUR family celebrate birthdays – particularly telling us which Birthday Song you all sing – and you stand a GREAT chance of winning a Boca Beth set of maracas!  Lead-free, toy-tested, and super-perfect for little one’s hands … you’re going to love this week’s Boca Beth bilingual learning fun!

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

P.S. (Remember to share below how YOU celebrate birthdays – which song do you sing?  Record it and share it with us via e-mail at BocaBeth@msn.com, and we will send you a Boca Beth bilingual t-shirt or beach ball instantly!  Don’t have time?  That’s okay!  Still comment below on what song you sing, what version of happy birthday  ~~~ with cha-cha-chas, with how old are you?, one of the many Spanish versions ~~~ and you are automatically entered to win a set of our adorable Boca Beth mini maracas!)

Here is a very cute bilingual book titled It’s My Birthday! sold at www.Alibris.com – I shop there often for books.  Click the link below for the page to buy the book from Alibris or to just view details on it.

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?S=R&bid=10103659605&cm_mmc=shopcompare-_-base-_-aisbn2-_-na

Here at www.LanguageLizard.com  you can buy a poster for your classroom, family child care home or play room that wishes Happy Birthday in many languages – not just Spanish and English.  Hard to see the image really great from this picture, but perhaps if you click the link below you will be able to get more details:

http://www.languagelizard.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=FRBIRTH  

And lastly, who doesn’t know and love Scholastic?!?!  This My First Bilingual Little Readers book looks terrific and has a page about birthdays!  I use www.BilingualBooks.com often to find other Spanish/English resources.  Click the link below to go to the page that has this First Readers Book on the page – it is the 8th one down that has the Birthday page!  Enjoy!

http://www.bilingualbooks.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=15      

I hope I have given you many ideas to work with this week for bilingual birthday fun with young children.  It’s all about making it fun, making it easy for you as the parent and teacher and making it affordable.  Rememeber … our second Boca Beth bilingual music CD has the bilingual Happy Birthday song on it – complete with Cha-Cha-Chas!

Did you realize there are more than 13 ways to sing Happy Birthday in the Spanish Language?!?!  Follow this link to see just a few ways, and conduct your own internet search to find more!

Happy Educating!  ¡Sea feliz educando!

Boca Beth

P.S. (I am giving away a bilingual book from my amiga Cathy Delittle.  It’s titled Pizza Pie Parrots / Pizza para loros.  Here is how you can win this bilingual book that addresses healthy eating habits while being bright and entertaining and bilingual.  Comment below what theme or concept you would like me to focus on in upcoming weeks.  We will accept answers up through next Tuesday at 5 pm EST, and we will enter all names into a sombrero and pick one winner out!  So start suggesting!)