We all love new school supplies at the beginning of the school year.
Some of my favorite “must have” supplies are:
I {love} sticky notes and pretty notepads. I leave notes for myself and the kids everywhere. Sticky notes torn into thirds mark pages needing to be corrected or mark pages to be read.
I’ve talked before of how I {heart} binders and normally I just use a binder for our school planner. This year, I bought The Well Planned Day planner. I really like it. It’s easy to use…and it’s pretty. That makes me smile.
For many years, I’ve used a blank lesson plan form for the kids’ weekly assignment checklists that I’ve printed from Donna Young. This year I’ve started using a lesson planner that I got from Mama Jenn’s blog.
{especially the colored ones} We use index cards for many things…vocabulary, memory work, math facts, games…
I do use regular silver paper clips. But sometimes I like a little pizzazz. Some of my paper clips are the small colored paper clips. And some are these larger clips. The pretty one came from a craft store’s dollar spot.
Right up there with my love of binders is my love for spiral bound notebooks. They hold my to-do lists, my thoughts, shopping lists, price lists, budgets, the kids’ grades…and we can’t forget the kids’ work!
I love color! Lots and lots of color! Colorful highlighters, colorful dry erase markers, color, color, color. And a few black ones too because sometimes I need to be understated.
These are used daily around our house. They are great for playing games, adding numbers, multiplying numbers, counting games, and on & on.
We are tough on pencil sharpeners. We’ve broken electric ones and manual ones. We aren’t picky! I have found that a manual sharpener stands up to us a little better than an electric one though. PS. Check out this blog post where I posted our sharpener from the past…see what I mean about how tough we are on sharpeners?
What are some of your “must haves” for your homeschool or your home?
I’d love to hear!
