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open house
By LLK

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We have had a variety of things and I think the latest idea seems to be working the best. We now have open house at all elementaries and the middle school in our district the EARLY evening before school starts. The time
is a bit early in the k-1 school, with a little later in the elementary, something like 4-5:30. The Middle School has a hot dog grill out around 5-6:30. Then the high school open house is the week of homecoming, later on into Sept or early Oct. When I taught at the Middle School last year the grill out was fun, but I found it sort of tiring to be cooking hotdogs, or passing out pop
the night before school starts, even if it ended early. The parents and kids love it, and I did enjoy the atmosphere and meeting the parents very informally. We did it out front of our school, so we didn't even need to have the rooms open, just the commons area.
We used to have open house about the 2nd or 3rd week into school, and it got to be more of a show and tell and let's have a conference. There is far less work now with it before school, because you have your room ready anyway and don't have to put up student projects, etc. Then that can be saved for conference time.


 


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