For Putnam County Kindergartners, school will start this Thursday.
Kindergarten students will have a two-hour school day on Thursday, as part of what the school system calls a registration day. Putnam County Schools Communications and Marketing Supervisor Buddy Pearson said students will be out of school Friday, and then next week, kindergarten students will have half days at different times as part of a transition week.
“It really depends on the school and the teacher as to what days they go,” Pearson said. “So really anybody who has a kindergartener needs to be in contact, should have heard from their schools, or at registration on Thursday, they’ll find out what days they go next week, if it’s morning, afternoon, just what those half days look like.”
Pearson said the school system has a transition week for kindergarteners, as most of them are new to school. The first full day of school for all Putnam County Schools is Monday.
“For Kindergarteners, it’s that transition,” Pearson said. “They have not been to school before. Most of them haven’t. So it’s just a transition day, so they go a half a day and they get kind of acclimated, like I said, and the parents get used to them coming to school.”
Pearson said this Friday, teachers will have a teacher workday. Pearson said the schedule is constructed not only to ease students back into school but also to keep teachers from being overwhelmed.
“The main thing is to get school started on the right foot,” Pearson said. “We want our teachers to be ready, we want our staff to be ready, we want the parents to be ready, and we want the students to be ready, and really, we found it’s been a good process.”
Pearson said the system encourages parents to take their child to the many back-to-school bashes that are happening across the county school system. Pearson back-to-school bashes are a great way for students to meet classmates and their teacher before school starts.
