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Target School Supply List: For your first year of high school you will need many things! If you’ve ever gotten a list of these things, that’s all well and fine.
You can find out what school supplies you will need from these hacks!
Ask other children in the higher grades (10th grade and up) if they received any materials list the freshman year.
Having gone through at least one year of school, most high school upper-class members should have a general idea of what they’ll need on a day-to-day basis.
If there’s something that’s only needed for a short period of time.
The teacher should be able to tell the students to purchase it a few days before.
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Prepare to look around the city or town you live in.
Some supermarkets may have a listing of what is needed for your school.
Find out if your school even participates in such a program.
Look for copies of the supplies list in the mail.
It is sometimes included at the time the student’s schedule comes.
Sometimes, much like any other year, this list will be supplied to the student.
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Walk into the school to see about what supplies they’ll need.
Talk to the staff at the main office of the high school to see if the student will be receiving a list, or how they should go about finding out this information.
Look for the more grown-up-like versions of highlighting tools you once used.
Purchase at least a pack of highlighters at first, along with a pack of colored pencils.
Leave your crayons you once used at school behind for the colored pencils.
Look for calculators that are called scientific calculators instead of the standard ones you might use to be taking to school, but do not be tempted to purchase any graphing calculators (unless the teacher later tells you you’ll need to purchase a graphing one).
Scientific calculators are geared at high schoolers in their freshman year and are a go-between the standard and graphing route that most freshman high school textbooks(Math and Science) are based on.
Due to the dual usefulness of its many functions, a scientific calculator is something you should keep with you to every Math and Science class period along with a variety of other Business classes(such as Accounting and Business/Practical Math) as well.
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Base some of your other essentials on some of the electives you’ll potentially be taking.
With all the Food and Industry core (formerly called Home Economics), Technology, Business, Theatre, Music, and Art classes are taught at most schools.
You’ll need to see what things you might need on a daily basis (without causing a distraction) by taking the simple to class on Day 1 and purchase the additional items over the days following(up to the following weekend).
Look for a few additional items you might not be used to taking to class with you.
Use 3-ring notebooks to store your pages of homework and notes along with composition books with perforated pages for written work.
Buy at least one compass and protractor for schoolwork now.
You might not need it routinely in school, but you’ll occasionally need it at home for math with compass constructions and such.
You may still need a protractor from time to time (especially in a mechanical drawing/drafting or math class), and it’s good to keep one on hand.
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Purchase a stainless steel (with a corkboard-like backing) straightedge/ruler with you for every math class.
These durable rulers (some Math teachers don’t like these short-form most elementary and middle school teachers call these utensils) are useful and don’t put a drag on the students.
The corkboard back makes them lightweight.
And yet the stainless steel won’t allow these straightedges to bend as much and break.
When compared with their predecessors they tend to break more often.
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More tips
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To eliminate the need to routinely sharpen pencils (for Math classes), keep a mechanical pencil with you.
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If you tend to break the tips, you’ll be taught the lesson to fix the tip before putting the mechanical pencil in your pocket(shirt or pants).
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Keep yourself on time. Unless you have a watch that works from many years past.
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Invest in a watch that you can keep on your wrist.
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With a variety of wristbands to choose from(to replace that outdated one that might not be beneficial in terms of time to put on and take off at the beginning or end of the day), all someone might need is a change in watchband to keep one on their wrist).
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(Phys Ed teachers tend to tell their students to remove their watches and put them in their locker, so listen up to their rules when wearing them to Phys Ed/Gym class.)