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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do principals give tours of schools? DD is starting K next year and we've been advised to prepare her as much as possible so she knows what to expect. I know there will be an open house the week before school, so maybe that's sufficient? I'm just worried the open house may be too hectic I suppose.[/quote]

If DD doesn't have special needs you can probably relay on the school to know what they're doing and show the kids the classroom and the bathroom (at our ES, K classrooms actually have their own bathrooms, so the kids don't even go down the hall or share with older kids).  All else will be done in groups and introduced gradually anyway.  DD doesn't need to know the school on her own because she won't be wandering around it.  No need to make the whole thing literally seem bigger and more complicated than it is.

One thing that surprised me when DC1 started K was that the classrooms were essentially bare at Open House.  The teacher very kindly and patiently explained to me that the classroom was going to take shape as a gradual visual record of the class themselves, with their name tags, their art, their work, and their projects surrounding them as they produced things.  It did not look like colorful party time at the outset to me, but it came to vibrant life in the course of the year.  And it might have been helpful to not have as much stimulation and distraction at the outset.

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