Now is a great time to stock up on items for school. In this past Sunday’s newspaper, Office Max has a brown paper bag where you can put items that you choose (read the small print because some items are not given a discount) to get a 15% discount. This may not have occurred in all newspapers, but hopefully it did where you live. Another place to buy items are thrift stores. My school has implemented reading every day for twenty minutes. I get my classroom reading books from thrift stores. I am very careful about the ones that I choose, but they are very affordable. If you have any great ideas about how to save on supplies, please leave a comment.
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I always wait until July when Target and Walmart have a zillion items on sale. I buy a couple or three hundred folders at 8-10 cents each. Crayons, glue, markers, and spiral notebooks are all on sale for about 10-20 cents each. I stock up for the year.
Another saver…student whiteboards can be made by cutting a shower board into squares. It costs about $15 for a class set. My students use them in math, language arts, and jigsaw reviews.
Teacherwriter
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Thank you teacherwriter for your comment. I am one of those people who stock up also at Target and Walmart.
Here are instructions for making these cheap white boards. They actually turn out really well. And cheap erasers can be white socks! (buy cheap new ones otherwise the kids are skeeved out) But they work great — little kids will even wear the sock on their hand when they erase!
http://www.nea.org/lessons/2003/tt030106.html
Math-teach
I appreciate those instructions for the white boards. I am sure that it will come in handy for lots of teachers.