Monday, August 18, 2008

On your mark, Get Set, Color!


Today we went school supply shopping. Gone are the days of the cute little cardboard pencil box stuffed with glue, pencils, crayons, a ruler, and a pink pearl eraser. Markers were a special treat. Oh no, we go armed with a list. A long and very specific list. I gotta give Nate's teacher props, she obviously knows what works and that I love and respect. But MY God, are these 5 year olds going to build a life sized Eiffel Tower out of crayons, or what?

Here is the list:
1 Tray (16) Crayola water color paint
3 boxes (24 ct.) Crayola crayons
2 boxes (8 ct.) Large Crayola crayons
1 pack (10) Crayola fat markers
1 pack (10) Crayola skinny markers
1 dozen pencils
2 tubes O'Glue (to be purchased in a specialty learning store)
2 paper pocket holders (pocket on bottom, not sides, no brads, pictures or designs)
1 vinyl pocket holder (pocket on bottom, not sides, no brads)
1 box gallon zip lock bags
1 box tissues
1 large container household wipes

Now, there are 30 kids in this Kindergarten class and each will be coming with the 3/24 packs and 2/8 packs of crayons. They way I figure it that's 2640 crayons. I hope they REALLY like to color. Or build that Eiffel Tower.
Either way, I'm suggesting we buy some stock in Crayola this week.

(and would you belive it took me 3 stores to get all this crap and I am still missing the glue and fat markers!)

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