Welcome to Students and Parents!
To prepare for a successful year, your first homework assignment is to get the items on the following supply list. Some items are for your personal use, while other items will be pooled as classroom supplies. Because you will be moving from classroom to classroom this year, you will also need a backpack or bag in which to carry items between classes. We will provide you with a cubby in your homeroom to store your extra materials, but you will need to carry your all of your materials (Language Arts, Math, Science, and/or Social Studies) with you when you go to those classrooms each day.
Items for your personal use (to be kept in your cubby and/or backpack):
- 1 bottle of white school glue
- 1 pack of #2 pencils (you are responsible for supplying your own pencils, and may need more than this to make it through the school year, so be sure to buy more if you run out)
- 1 non-electric pencil sharpener (my pencil sharpeners ALWAYS break, so you need one of your own!)
- 1 set of crayons, colored pencils, or markers
- 1 pair of school scissors
- 1 ruler with metric and English units
- 1 compass
- 1 protractor
- 1 book of graph paper (a composition book is ideal, but any bound graph paper will do)
- 3 composition books (can be lined or graph paper)
- 4 3-ring binders (one for LA, one for Math, one for Social Studies, one for Science)
- 1 3-ring hole punch (the type that fit in your binder work well)
- 2 pocket folders that fit in your 3-ring binder
- Outdoor items: sunscreen, washable water bottle, and proper footwear and clothing for hiking should be worn every day.
Items to be pooled in the classroom for all students’ use:
- 1 box of tissues
- 1 roll of paper towels
- 1 package of wide-ruled paper
- 1 package of multi-colored construction paper
Throughout the year you will be involved in projects that require you to make posters, build dioramas, and to prepare other forms of visual presentations. Rather than purchasing materials for these projects as they are assigned, we highly recommend that you set aside a box or bin and begin collecting things that might be useful for these projects rather than throwing them out as trash. Great things to collect might include shoeboxes, string, yarn, scraps of colored paper, ribbon, decorative paper or shopping bags, large pieces of cardboard, Styrofoam, old magazines, and etc.
In the spirit of recycling and reusing, we are always looking for more classroom materials. If you are ever about to throw something out or realize that you never use it and you think it could be useful in any of our classrooms, please ask us before throwing it in the trash.
Thanks for helping get the school year off to great start!
Sincerely,
Mr. Gallo & Mr. Reinhart
