Parents,
This post is for your information for your own child's success. As the holidays approach, your child will probably need a few more school supplies. Please make sure that they have pencils and pens, color pencils, a hand held sharpener that catches all of the crumbs, an eraser, a ruler, clear tape, a glue stick and index cards for their use in school along with their composition book for class and possibly a folder with prongs. They will also need a composition book and backboard for their science project along with computer access and art supplies. If you don't have a stapler at home, please buy one for your child. Amazingly, many children tell me they have great game consoles, top quality phones, and name brand clothes, but no stapler. If your printer is out of ink, broken, or won't print for some reason then your child will either need to make trips to the library or to our very own JLCP computer lab (opens at 7:10 AM most mornings) to print assignments or their science project.
I try to keep some pencils, crayons, scissors, glue, and paper for students who find that they left their materials at home or in their locker. However, I can not keep enough for each child. There's a school provided electric pencil sharpener for student use, but it's starting to show it's age. It wasn't designed for 20 pencils to be sharpened so it's really noisy and students have to grind and grind on their pencils. If each child had a hand held sharpener then there would be no line and no noise and students would not lose time waiting to use the sharpener. Also, color pencils can only be sharpened in hand held sharpeners because they ruin the electric sharpener.
Please make sure your child has the supplies he or she needs to be successful in all classes. A few extra pencils that have been sharpened are a great addition to any pencil case. A fully stocked pencil case is invaluable no matter which class a child is in.
Thanks for your help in scaffolding your child's success.
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