- A good pencil sharpener! This sort of goes without saying, but having a good pencil sharpener will make your homeschool day go much smoother! There's nothing worse than using a dull or cheap pencil sharpener and having your pencils break or not sharpen.
- Good pencils! Invest in good pencils and they will save your sanity. Ticonderoga have always been good. They sharpen evenly and don't break easily. The cute pencils with the decorative wrapping - skip those. The wrapping will come off, clog your sharpener, and cause you unnecessary grief!
- Sheet protectors! I use sheet protectors in our binders to keep our pages fresh and pretty. I hate when pages get torn out of binders and you have papers sticking out and falling out. Sheet protectors keep binders neat and pages in tact. They can be expensive, but it's worth it to me!
- Laminator! I use my laminator all the time, especially with my younger kids. I laminate flash cards, games and pieces, resources I want to reuse, and charts. It makes things so durable and almost impossible to destroy. I have had my laminator for years and it still works perfectly!
Those are my top four must have resources for the school year! Tomorrow I'll be sharing about curriculum.
I can see the value in all of those things though page protection for every page for drive me crazy
ReplyDeleteI love the sheet protectors! I love to flip through the binders that have them.
DeleteIt is amazing how much difference there is in pencils. A good pencil really is worth a little extra money!
ReplyDeleteYes I agree! Nothing worse than having a pencil that won't sharpen when you're trying to do work!
DeleteI think the pencil thing is interesting! I do not like Ticonderoga pencils. We have had terrible experiences with them - worse than the dollar style pencils. The lead was always breaking or broken. I sharpened one beyond use right out of the package. Never again will I get that brand. My girls like the cheap click pencils but one of my girls prefers the cheap ones with the plastic covers that you talk about disliking. Those are definitely worth it for us.
ReplyDeleteOh no! Sometimes we get a bad batch of Ticonderoga, but usually they're fantastic.
DeleteWe rely on erasable pens, our library card, and games.
ReplyDeleteA library card - yes! That should have bene on my list!
DeleteI love the plastic sheet protectors. I got an electric pencil sharpener for my birthday. I really hope that it lasts since it wasn't the one that was recommended as the 'best.'
ReplyDeleteYou know you're a homeschool mom when you get a pencil sharpener for your birthday, lol!
DeleteI love my laminator! We also always get a good set of new Crayons and not a cheap set, but a good Crayola set!
ReplyDeleteYes! We never buy cheap crayons or markers.
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