Transition day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're entering an MCPS elementary school for 1st from a private K, and our school said Transition Day is only for kindergarteners (we called the office to ask). Anyone else hearing this?

Do they know you are a transfer family?

Transisition day is also for students who are new to the school. So even if you are coming from another mcps school, your kid goes to school on transition day. Parents do not. Families (parent/s plus kid) can attend the school's Open House. Call the school to ask when Open House is being held at the school. Typically the Friday before the week school starts. So this year it should be August 22. Call your kid's school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're entering an MCPS elementary school for 1st from a private K, and our school said Transition Day is only for kindergarteners (we called the office to ask). Anyone else hearing this?

Do they know you are a transfer family?

Transisition day is also for students who are new to the school. So even if you are coming from another mcps school, your kid goes to school on transition day. Parents do not. Families (parent/s plus kid) can attend the school's Open House. Call the school to ask when Open House is being held at the school. Typically the Friday before the week school starts. So this year it should be August 22. Call your kid's school.

Many schools cancelled open house.
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2024-2025/Community-Message-20250812.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're entering an MCPS elementary school for 1st from a private K, and our school said Transition Day is only for kindergarteners (we called the office to ask). Anyone else hearing this?

Do they know you are a transfer family?

Transisition day is also for students who are new to the school. So even if you are coming from another mcps school, your kid goes to school on transition day. Parents do not. Families (parent/s plus kid) can attend the school's Open House. Call the school to ask when Open House is being held at the school. Typically the Friday before the week school starts. So this year it should be August 22. Call your kid's school.

Many schools cancelled open house.
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2024-2025/Community-Message-20250812.html

Which schools cancelled? I haven’t heard of any elementary schools that canceled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're entering an MCPS elementary school for 1st from a private K, and our school said Transition Day is only for kindergarteners (we called the office to ask). Anyone else hearing this?

Do they know you are a transfer family?

Transisition day is also for students who are new to the school. So even if you are coming from another mcps school, your kid goes to school on transition day. Parents do not. Families (parent/s plus kid) can attend the school's Open House. Call the school to ask when Open House is being held at the school. Typically the Friday before the week school starts. So this year it should be August 22. Call your kid's school.

Many schools cancelled open house.
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/publicinfo/community/school-year-2024-2025/Community-Message-20250812.html

That link provides no relevant info for your point. We are at 2 ES and both are holding open houses. Which are not?

[Anonymous]

Middle school and high school students new to school should be attending transition day

[Anonymous]

As an 11th grade teacher I’m not looking forward to transition day - ugh!

[Anonymous]

At my high school we are doing whole group in the auditorium, schedule walkthroughs to classrooms the rest of the morning, lunch and the some sort of carnival in the afternoon. Each department is supposed to design some sort of outside event. School is not giving any help or money though. So, it might be a heck of a lot of cornhole based on what staff can bring on their own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an 11th grade teacher I’m not looking forward to transition day - ugh!

Why not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my high school we are doing whole group in the auditorium, schedule walkthroughs to classrooms the rest of the morning, lunch and the some sort of carnival in the afternoon. Each department is supposed to design some sort of outside event. School is not giving any help or money though. So, it might be a heck of a lot of cornhole based on what staff can bring on their own.

That sounds awful....no offense.

Question: Did your high school previously do the orientation model where it was a half-day schedule and kids walked through a mock of their schedule, found out where their lockers were, etc.?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my high school we are doing whole group in the auditorium, schedule walkthroughs to classrooms the rest of the morning, lunch and the some sort of carnival in the afternoon. Each department is supposed to design some sort of outside event. School is not giving any help or money though. So, it might be a heck of a lot of cornhole based on what staff can bring on their own.

Colossal waste of time!

[Anonymous]

Are all elementary schools doing sneak peak on transition day as well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are all elementary schools doing sneak peak on transition day as well?

By "sneak peak," do you mean the open house when grades 1-5 get to visit their classroom and meet their new teacher? If so, then yes, our ES is doing it from 2-3 on Monday/transition day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a 5th grade teacher and we currently have 1 new enrolled student. We do not know if he will come or if others will register, but I think it will be awkward for the child. I love the idea of getting to know the school and meeting the teachers early, but 1-2 hours is plenty. There will be some type of rotation that our core team is planning, but 7.5 hours is way too long to fill!

I predict there will be kids in each grade who show up because their parents missed the memo about transition day only being for a certain category if student

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume MCPS teachers know about transition day by now, but I was surprised back in March when I talked to two elementary teachers who had no idea it was added for this upcoming school year.

I was really hoping KAH would be open at our school but the calendar on their website says it begins Tuesday with the 1st day of school.

I work for mcps and saw it on the approved calendar back in the spring but most people missed it for months. I even posted about it the the spring and predicted people would be freaking out about it because mcps loves to wait until the last minute to share information. As predicted, kidsco leadership claimed they had no idea about it until July despite it clearly being on the calendar for months

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're entering an MCPS elementary school for 1st from a private K, and our school said Transition Day is only for kindergarteners (we called the office to ask). Anyone else hearing this?

Do they know you are a transfer family?

Transisition day is also for students who are new to the school. So even if you are coming from another mcps school, your kid goes to school on transition day. Parents do not. Families (parent/s plus kid) can attend the school's Open House. Call the school to ask when Open House is being held at the school. Typically the Friday before the week school starts. So this year it should be August 22. Call your kid's school.

Our school is doing a tour for parents that day as well, in the morning.