Favorite School Supplies ✏️
Who doesn’t love a “bouquet of newly sharpened pencils” like Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly?! I’m all about less school supplies but better quality, so here are the items I replenish at the beginning of every year here at River Lake Sunshine School:
Lyra Waldorf Colored Pencils - The BEST. They have an awesome soft texture with the most vibrant colors. The pencils themselves are thick and last forever. Highly recommend these as the only colored pencils you’ll ever need. They also have a package of Skin Tone Colors. For storing our colored pencils/markers/paintbrushes in mason jars or recycled tin cans with the labels removed.
Artist’s Loft Watercolors - So great. They are vibrant and last a long time. I get each of my girls their own palette, because they use them differently, so this way they each get the colors they need for their own artwork.
Canson Notebooks - These are what we use for our narration notebooks. They can be used with watercolors, acrylic paints, and just for drawing, so they’re perfect for all our needs. You can use both sides of the paper. Each girl gets her own for the year.
IKEA BEKVAM Spice Racks - I finally got these last year! These are super cheap and perfect for displaying books that you’ll be using for the year or just the next read-alouds you have coming up. I also got one for each of my girls for the wall next to their beds so they can keep their favorite current books and/or journal in them.
Small white board with dry-erase markers. We have one of these hanging on the wall in the school room and also a small personal size bamboo one that can be held in the lap. This is great for practicing spelling words or writing sentences or words that I dictate to them, or even working out math problems.
This year, I got these triangular pencils for my 3rd grader to help her hold her pencil correctly. We also love these Jumbo pencils.
Other supplies:
2” D-ring binder for each girl to store her work for the year
card stock
construction paper
plain copy paper
