Excuse my ignorant questions about school supplies

[Anonymous]

DD and I bought the school supplies on the Oyster kindergarten list this weekend. Couple of questions:

(1) what is a "beginner" pencil?
(2) what do you do with the supplies to start with? Bring them all to school the first day? Wait for the teachers to ask for them?

I can't believe that I have a JD and am finding kindergarten so challenging already. Yikes.

[Anonymous]

A beginner pencil is one of those fat ones and you take the supplies on the first day of school.

[Anonymous]

A properly drafted statute would have a definition of beginner pencil in Section 101 of the relevant Article, which is why you are confused.

[Anonymous]

Tee hee. I too have a JD and wondered about when the supplies are supposed to go to school.

[Anonymous]

Send them on the first day.

[Anonymous]

Should they all be labeled?

[Anonymous]

No need to label supplies - and thank goodness for that. With three kids, it would take me six weeks to get their names on all the stuff we are expected to buy for them!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for asking the question; as I was also curious about the same things (have two masters degrees and only one child starting K). So you send the supplies to school on the first day of school? I assume then it is the teacher that doles them out throughout the year to the students and also worries about storing them.

Very interesting, and to be honest... odd.

[Anonymous]

School supplies are shared in kindergarten (and, I think, in several later grades, too). So if the kids are cutting things out, they don't use their individual scissors but share from those in a bin. The teacher labeled the few things that my child alone used (a folder used to send home info, a composition book for homework).

I think this makes good sense, especially since the kids don't tend to have individual desks at this age--they rotate between activities at different tables.

[Anonymous]

Our school asked all the parents to write a check for school supplies and they'll put the money together and buy the exact supplies the teachers want and need for the whole class. They'll have a little bank to draw on throughout the year when they need to buy more or buy something new. I LOVE it! You might want to pass the suggestion along to your PA.

[Anonymous]

A silly question but I'm curious... Where did you go to buy all these supplies? Did you find a store that had all of them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A silly question but I'm curious... Where did you go to buy all these supplies? Did you find a store that had all of them?

Target

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A silly question but I'm curious... Where did you go to buy all these supplies? Did you find a store that had all of them?

Target

Target did not have the;
- Beginner Pencils
- Fiskars Scissors
- and very large packets of colored paper

on the K List.

[Anonymous]

Target is usually our first stop. We pick up anything not available at Target at a Staples/ Office Depot sort of place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A silly question but I'm curious... Where did you go to buy all these supplies? Did you find a store that had all of them?

Target

Target did not have the;
- Beginner Pencils
- Fiskars Scissors
- and very large packets of colored paper

on the K List.

I found the Fiskars scissors in the office supplies aisle at Target.

I got the beginner pencils and ream of colored paper at Staples.