Middle school homeroom question

[Anonymous]

Do middle school rotate kids going to different classrooms at each session on a daily basis? Is there a homeroom? How do kids make friends if there are so many kids shuffling around and there is no break time between classes or no homeroom?

[Anonymous]

We've found that homeroom often is used for administrative tasks like delivering report cards, announcements, etc. It can be used for checking in with teachers, homework (if that is a thing )/unfinished classwork, SEL, etc. It may be held at the beginning of the day or between first and second classes. (Maybe some schools do it around lunch?) Not every day has homeroom for some schools.

Kids come in to MS with some friends from ES. They get to know others from their various classes & activities over a longer period of time than in ES due to that shorter time together/rotation through classes, but sometimes connect well at first meeting someone. With all that goes on in MS, both academically and developmentally/socially, there can be kids who get/feel left out. Often that can be ameliorated by having a few close friends, but for someone coming in new who isn't naturally outgoing, it can be tough, even though there appear to be a lot more kids in schools willing to reach out to new students to try to include them than when I was young.

[Anonymous]

That is tough for shy, introvert or social awkward kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've found that homeroom often is used for administrative tasks like delivering report cards, announcements, etc. It can be used for checking in with teachers, homework (if that is a thing )/unfinished classwork, SEL, etc. It may be held at the beginning of the day or between first and second classes. (Maybe some schools do it around lunch?) Not every day has homeroom for some schools.

Kids come in to MS with some friends from ES. They get to know others from their various classes & activities over a longer period of time than in ES due to that shorter time together/rotation through classes, but sometimes connect well at first meeting someone. With all that goes on in MS, both academically and developmentally/socially, there can be kids who get/feel left out. Often that can be ameliorated by having a few close friends, but for someone coming in new who isn't naturally outgoing, it can be tough, even though there appear to be a lot more kids in schools willing to reach out to new students to try to include them than when I was young.

Yes my 6th grader hasn't made any new friends so far. It doesn't seem easy to make new friends in middle school. No afterschool activities of interest so far either. I remember middle school being hard too to make friends because I didn't know anyone going in.

[Anonymous]

Our MS is nice in that they spent the first twoish weeks doing icebreakers in every class, assigning lunch tables the first week—at leadt for 6th graders. My shyish kid now has many friends in all their classes.

There is no homeroom in our school—they are in the cafeteria until 1st period.