Classroom Wish Lists

By California law, schools cannot put out a student supply list that suggest that those supplies are required for the student. Teachers have access to basic supplies, like pencils, erasers, standard school sets of crayons, etc. Teachers can put out wish lists for items that can be donated for whole-class use, or suggestions, but cannot require families to provide these items.

Vista Grande does provide a homework/communication folder for each student, UTK-5.

Wish lists will be available at the beginning of the year or during Back to School Night from your classroom teachers. Please see the above links for individual clasrooms and/or teachers.

We know that Back to School Sales often happen prior to the first day of school. If you are looking to take advantage of those sales, there are a few items that are often on wish lists.

Individual Supplies

• Backpack large enough to hold pocket folder
• Lunchbox 
• Water Bottle
• 1 ½ to 2 Inch Binder
• Pencil Box 
• Crayola Colored Markers (washable-set of 10)
• Headphones – label with name
• Scissors

Classroom Supplies

• Hand sanitizer (individual and community)
• Mechanical pencils #2
• Colored Pencils
• Glue sticks
• Clorox wipes
• 2 boxes of tissue
• Red, Blue and Black ballpoint markers
• Black felt tip markers
• Expo markers
• Gallon size Ziplock bags
• Highlighters

Individual Supplies

• Backpack large enough to hold pocket folder
• Lunchbox 
• Water Bottle
• 1 ½ to 2 inch Binder
• 1 small non-electric hand pencil sharpener (with plastic cover).
• Pencil Box (labeled with name for storing individual school supplies)
• Headphones (labeled with name)
• Scissors

Classroom Supplies

• Pencils Ticonderoga #2
• Mechanical pencils #2 
• Highlighters (any color)
• Wide ruled paper
• 2 Wide Ruled Spiral Notebook
• Black Papermate Flair Pens
• Permanent Markers- Sharpie fine point black
• Dry erase markers (not skinny)
• 24 count pack of Colored Pencils 
• Clorox wipes
• 2 boxes of tissue
• 1 ream of letter size white copy paper.

Individual Supplies  

• Backpack large enough to hold pocket folder
• Lunchbox 
• Water Bottle
• 1 ½ to 2 inch Binder
• Pencil box (labeled with name for individual school supplies)
• 2 large glue sticks 
• Mechanical pencils #2 
• Highlighters
• Scissors
• Headphones – label with name
• 1 box – 10 count Crayola Conical-tip Markers Classic Colors (broad tip)
• 1 box – 12 count Crayola Colored Pencils 
• 2 Marble Composition Book, 100 sheets (wide ruled)

Classroom Supplies

• Fine tip dry erase markers/eraser
• Sharpies
• Clorox disinfecting wipes
• 2 boxes of tissue
• 1 ream letter size white copy paper

• Amazon Wish List for Supplies
• Amazon Wish List for Books/Read Alouds
• DonorsChoose Page

Primary Needs 

• Wipes for hands (baby wipes)
• Wipes for cleaning (Lysol, etc.)
• Paper towels
• Waterproof stickers

General Supplies

• Ziploc freezer bags in gallon size (not the slider ones)
• Ziploc freezer bags in quart size (not the slider ones)
• Tissues
• Paper plates
• Glue sticks

Recycled Items to Collect for Engineering

Look for announcements to be sent home for recycled material requests.  We use these for engineering, but I do not need them yet, but these are things that I might send out a notice when I am ready:

• • Paper tubes (toilet paper/paper towel/wrapping paper cardboard tubes)
  • Cereal boxes, collapsed
  • Newspaper
  • Magazines (for cutting out images, make sure they are school-friendly)
  • Shoe boxes
  • Film canisters (35mm – does anyone ever use these any more?)
  • Plastic animals
  • Thread spools
  • Large/Jumbo plastic containers

Amazon Wish List for the Counseling Center

The speech room can always use more books, pretend play toys, and Target/Amazon/Barnes and Noble gift cards!