First time K parent. When to start school supply shopping?

[Anonymous]

Let me add this question to the mix. For those of us who have to buy loads of school supplies, do we haul them to school the first day?

[Anonymous]

Just send in a few things each day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me add this question to the mix. For those of us who have to buy loads of school supplies, do we haul them to school the first day?

If you have an open house before school starts, you can bring them then. Otherwise, yes, first day of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget to double check your school's supply lists. Lots of schools now require you to buy certain things and then they are pooled for all the kids to share as opposed to your own child supplying only his own things. Lots of threads on this.

This is so we can all pay for the FARMS kids supplies so the school budget doesn't. Pathetic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I only send my kids to school on the first day with a backpack, lunchbox, pen/pencil and notebook to write things down with. We do school supply shopping the afternoon of the first day of school.

Do they really need something to write with the first day of kindergarten? Honest question.

[Anonymous]

OP, Buy a cute backpack and lunchbox for your kid. Ask them to pick up the one they want (design and look) and make sure that they are of good quality, so they do not fall apart, midway through the school year.

Most schools will expect your child to bring to school the following things -
1) 2 composition books of different color cover
2) Box of crayons
3) Blunt tip, kid safe, scissors
4) Gluestick
5) Pencil box
6) 2 different color, vinyl folders
7) Pencils (not mechanical)
8) Eraser
9) Pencil sharpener

You need to write your child's name on all of these things.

Other than that there is nothing needed.

I tend to give my kids a clip-on hand-sanitizer as well to clip to the backpack. I send with her a small flat box of clorox wipes, incase her chair or desk is not clean.

You can also buy to keep at home the following supplies -
1) Pencils, crayons, sharpener, eraser, pencil-box
2) Construction paper, scissors that cut in different patterns, colored markers - broad and fine tipped, stickers, glue-sticks
3) Storage cart to store all these things
4) Composition books
5) Cursive writing workbook


I buy the following supplies from costco to send to the teacher, but I do not send everything at once - because if they have too much supplies, they will share it with other classrooms. At orientation I will ask the teacher what they need.
1) Tissue paper boxes
2) Lysol spray
3) Ziplock bags - Gallon sized as well as sandwich bags
4) Clorox wipes.
5) Liquid hand soap.

[Anonymous]

AND buy from Walmart.

[Anonymous]

I would get the list specific to your own school. PP's very specifc list could easily not apply to your school. My school also pools all supplies in the younger grades so you defintely are not putting your child's name on anything. All the crayons/glue sticks etc are in a tub in the middle of the table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would get the list specific to your own school. PP's very specifc list could easily not apply to your school. My school also pools all supplies in the younger grades so you defintely are not putting your child's name on anything. All the crayons/glue sticks etc are in a tub in the middle of the table.

This is true for my elementary school too. Nothing should get labeled. One of the activities the first week was sorting school supplies on a big table.
And yes, they did go through all those glue sticks by March.