School+Donation+Supplies

= This page is editable. It is for participants to list what you are bringing on the study tour to donate to the school in the Amazon or to pass out to folks as we travel. You may also share ideas for what you are doing with your students to either raise funds, or items students are creating to share with the school. This is another way you can engage your students! Help them to experience this study tour with you. = Please be sure to provide your name with each post. ======================================================================================================= Meredith W. 2/11 I have lots of band-aids/gauze/etc (filled up 2 gallon-sized plastic bags), 4 rulers, lots of pencils, pencils sharpeners, nerf football, and the EF backpack.

February 7 Suzanne Missert: I have a bunch of picture books in Spanish and some Pokemon cards!

Feb 5 Janine Panechelli: I have a boat load of supplies from fellow teachers. I have markers, pencils, nametags (?), colored pencils in abundance!, crayons, post-its, pencil sharpeners, binder clips, and erasers.

Feb. 2nd....Some thoughts embedded in blue below. ~mad
== Lynn Howard: So far I have 10 boxes of colored pencils, some small sports erasers, a set of addition and a set of multiplication flash cards, 2 sets of flash cards with English and Spanish words and pictures (colors, animals), and I have some pencils. I also have some index cards, 18 boxes of markers, pens, and stickers. ==

Does anyone have an extra suitcase that we can use for the school supplies (I don't think I'll have room in my suitcase for all of my school supplies)?
1/31 Andrea: I haven't gone to the Dollar Tree, yet, but I have tons of stickers, and I have those small 6 inch MCAS rulers that are given out. There is always such an excess of rulers that the math teachers don't want. MAD, is it okay to bring those?

Shari Meyer - I'm glad I mentioned Dollar Tree yesterday. It reminded me I should go myself, and I had a blast buying supplies tonight. I seem to have duplicated some of Lynn's items (oops) but here's what I picked up:
 * 2 small puzzles (24 pieces; numbers and shapes in English, Spanish, and French)
 * small stretchy action figures (12 in all)
 * 2 boxes of crayons (48 in box) - will these melt?! If so I will leave them behind.
 * 2 sets of foam letter stickers
 * 4 sets of math flash cards (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
 * 24 Valentine's Day pattern pencils
 * 2 rulers
 * 3 packages of multi-color modeling clay (this could be fun to use with the kids when we're there)
 * 2 packages of novelty erasers (1 Valentine's themed)
 * small star stickers (and I have more in my desk to bring)
 * 10 animal die cuts
 * 2 dry-erase tablets

Every one of these items was $1. I spent a total of $24 and there were many more items I could envision us bringing, so I had to rein myself in! I had a thought about candy: what about Sweethearts? Dollar Tree had 4 small (individual) boxes for $1, and I was thinking it could be fun to explain what the hearts are saying.

Shari - I've been picking up small items here and there as well. Some of the classes in my building are making Valentines for the school kids. I love the idea of Sweethearts for candy. I remember Dave Youngberg (Spelling of last name???) saying he was careful not to bring individually wrapped candies into the Amazon because he didn't A: want the kids to eat the wrappers and B: didn't want the wrappers to be left littering the Amazon. Any other wrapper-less candy ideas (candy that won't melt???). ~Donna B. What about very small plastic containers with covers. Like for kids snacks. Or small tins like the size of an Altoids tin. The Xmas Tree store may have something like this that could hold a small amount of wrapperless candy and that they could then use after the candy is gone to store something small. ~mad

Toby Adams- I have bought the following posters in Spanish: 2 colors, 2 shapes, a calendar, body parts, solar system, geo. terms, months, days of the week, numbers, birthdays, and alphabet. I also have a world map and a South American/Central American Map from AAA, they did not have them in Spanish. Also I have bean bags shapes with the words written in Spanish.

Laura O'Malley and I are working on a project to share with the students as well. He second graders are writing letters which we will translate in Google before we leave.
 * Merideth E - I picked up some materials today: **
 * ** 5 more mini dry erase boards with markers **
 * ** smiley stickers **
 * ** pencils **
 * ** 4 Mancala games **
 * ** pattern blocks. **
 * I'm struggling a bit, trying hard not to bring non-biodegradable materials into their environment. I thought Twizzlers had minimal packaging so I purchased 4 packages to share with the kids. Also on my "to buy" list are: **
 * ** bandaids **
 * ** colored notecards or sticky notes **
 * ** antibacterial cream **
 * ** photo book of places in the US (which is not full if anyone wants to contribute a 3x5 photo to the mix!) **
 * ** storybooks in Spanish if I can locate a few at my local used book shop. **