School starts Monday!

CoffeeQueen · Guru

RE: School starts Monday!

Robin · Guru

CoffeeQueen wrote:

All Michigan schools do not start till after Labor Day. This year the big kids start on the 9th and Allie's first day of preschool is not till the 14th. It is such a late start this year since Labor Day is so late. I would hate starting in Aug though because Mi has such short summers and we want to get all we can out of the warmer weather.

Hard to believe that Henry will be in 4th grade. It is a great year. Here you have your 4th grade teacher for 4/5 and they start traveling to get you ready for Middle School. Do they travel there in grade 4? Meaning go to a different teacher for Math, etc?

They still just have one teacher in 4th grade. In 5th grade, they change classes between 2 teachers.

I can't say that it would really get them ready for middle school though. When I was in middle school, my whole class stayed together and moved as a unit through 6 different periods/teachers throughout the day. Now in middle school, the kids just have homeroom together then they all go off to different classes just like high school. That seems so grown-up.