Children Returning to school - A Time For Re-calibration!

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Returning to School After Holidays: Understanding the Adjustment

🎒 Why the Transition Can Feel Hard for Some Children

Weeks of free time, flexible schedules, travelling time, spending time with mom and dad and other relatives plus fewer rules, became the children's new normal during the Holidays. Since children do not perceive linear time as we adults do, they feel these routines are, in fact, their new way of life.

So much fun! time is up! Back to school, here we go, and their internal routines — sleep patterns, reward systems, and emotional rhythms — need time to readjust, recalibrated.

 This shift isn’t just physical (waking up early again) but also emotional. 

Extra support for some children who may experience strong emotions is needed.

Important things to remember when riding the children's train of emotions.

  • Little ones might feel Mixed emotions — excitement and nervousness

  • Irritability, clinginess, or resistance

  • Anxiety or low mood about returning to structured settings

  • Remember: negative emotions around transitions are not setbacks — they’re part of healthy adjustment and emotional growth. 

  • Feeling anxious, reluctant, or uncertain doesn’t mean a child is “behind” or struggling permanently. With consistency, understanding, and connection, children gradually regain confidence and adapt to school rhythms again.

Creating a Supportive Classroom Return

🍎 Ease Back Into Structure

Teachers will build transition time into the first week, blending familiar activities with gentle reintroduction of routines.

🤝 Foster Connection

Terra Viva Teachers will start with group activities and social time to help students reconnect with peers and build emotional comfort in the classroom.

💛 Encourage Expression

Our Teachers will use feeling charts, dialogues, or check-ins to help students name and communicate their moods. 

What parents can do to support Back to School transition time!

Create Connection Moments

Transitions become easier when kids feel grounded in family connection.


Try:

  • A 10-minute “special time” each day

  • Reading together before bed

  • A morning affirmation, prayer or meditation

  • A small ritual like a note in the lunchbox



Just stay calm, patient and joyful during this transition, children will adapt soon!

Andrea Lopez Martheyn
Montessori Teacher

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