Supplies
Farmington Public Schools provides your child with all books, supplies and materials necessary for the successful completion of first grade. Families and students are always free to voluntarily provide school supplies. If you wish to volunteer supplies, our first grade team suggests providing some or all of the following items with your child's name on each item.
~GYM SHOES to keep at school (or be sure your child wears safe shoes to run and play in on gym days).
~BACKPACK - Standard sized backpacks work best. Folders don't fit in the small, cute ones and the hard-cornered backpacks with wheels and handles won't fit well in our lockers.
~SUPPLY BOX to keep in desk (5 x 8 inches). This will house your child's scissors, crayons, dry erase markers, glue sticks (and skinny markers, if you choose to purchase them). The best supply boxes are plastic with an attached lid that easily stays open and usually cost $1 or less.
~SPIRAL NOTEBOOK to keep in desk (standard 8 1/2 x 11 inches with 70 pages of paper).
~SCISSORS to go inside the supply box.
~GLUE STICKS to go inside the supply box.
~HEADPHONES to be used with computers.
~GREEN FOLDER that is poly/plastic with two pockets. This folder will be taken home at the end of each school day and brought back to class each school day.
~A hard-cover, 1 inch BINDER with metal, snap-closing rings - This will be your child's Leadership Notebook. It would be ideal to buy the kind that has a clear pocket cover for a piece of paper to slip inside.
~Skinny DRY ERASE MARKERS for personal, mini-whiteboards.
~CRAYONS (48 count or less) to go inside the supply box (go ahead and recycle the crayon box and dump the crayons into the supply box).
Some shared classroom supplies that we can always use are:
~GYM SHOES to keep at school (or be sure your child wears safe shoes to run and play in on gym days).
~BACKPACK - Standard sized backpacks work best. Folders don't fit in the small, cute ones and the hard-cornered backpacks with wheels and handles won't fit well in our lockers.
~SUPPLY BOX to keep in desk (5 x 8 inches). This will house your child's scissors, crayons, dry erase markers, glue sticks (and skinny markers, if you choose to purchase them). The best supply boxes are plastic with an attached lid that easily stays open and usually cost $1 or less.
~SPIRAL NOTEBOOK to keep in desk (standard 8 1/2 x 11 inches with 70 pages of paper).
~SCISSORS to go inside the supply box.
~GLUE STICKS to go inside the supply box.
~HEADPHONES to be used with computers.
~GREEN FOLDER that is poly/plastic with two pockets. This folder will be taken home at the end of each school day and brought back to class each school day.
~A hard-cover, 1 inch BINDER with metal, snap-closing rings - This will be your child's Leadership Notebook. It would be ideal to buy the kind that has a clear pocket cover for a piece of paper to slip inside.
~Skinny DRY ERASE MARKERS for personal, mini-whiteboards.
~CRAYONS (48 count or less) to go inside the supply box (go ahead and recycle the crayon box and dump the crayons into the supply box).
Some shared classroom supplies that we can always use are:
- boxes of tissues
- napkins
- Ziploc bags (snack, sandwich, quart or gallon size)
- paper towel rolls
- large bottle of hand sanitizer with a pump