Dynamic selection of HTML select tag in laravel5.0

Let's have a select tag of months of a year

<label name="month">Select Month</label>
                        <select class="form-control">
                            <option>1</option>
                            <option>2</option>
                            <option>3</option>
                            <option>4</option>
                            <option>5</option>
                            <option>6</option>
                            <option>7</option>
                            <option>8</option>
                            <option>9</option>
                            <option>10</option>
                        </select>

How can I set the current month number dynamically ? e.g. If it is May then '5' will be selected automatically. However user can also select a month manually with the help of drop down option.I want to use it in my laravel5.0 application.

via Chebli Mohamed