home room

Thân thiện

The students gather in their home room before the first bell.

Definition

Noun: 1. A designated classroom: A specific classroom where all students from a particular grade or class group gather at scheduled times, typically at the start of the school day, under the supervision of a teacher who performs administrative duties such as taking attendance and making announcements.

Usage

• Home room is used as a countable noun. It refers to both the physical location (the classroom) and the daily administrative period that occurs there.
• It is often written as one word: homeroom.

Examples

• Noun:
  • Please go directly to your home room when you arrive at school.
  • Our homeroom teacher takes attendance every morning.
  • The principal's announcement was read during homeroom.

Advanced Usage

• "To have homeroom": Refers to the scheduled period or activity.
  • We have homeroom for 15 minutes at 8:00 AM.
• Used attributively (as an adjective) to describe related concepts.
  • The homeroom period is for administrative tasks.
  • She is my homeroom teacher.

Variants and Related Words

• Homeroom (n): The standard, often single-word, spelling variant.
• Homeroom teacher (n): The teacher responsible for a specific homeroom class.

Synonyms

• Registration class (chiefly British English): A similar concept where attendance is taken.
• Form class (used in some educational systems): A class grouping for administrative purposes.

Notes on Meaning

• The primary function of home room is administrative and organizational, not instructional. Core academic subjects are usually taught in other, subject-specific classrooms.
• It serves as a consistent "home base" for students within the school.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business

Từ đồng nghĩa

• homeroom