 Hi you guys, my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video, I'm going to share with you all of the school supplies that I bought for my upcoming homeschooling year, so I cannot wait to share with you guys all of the homeschool supplies that I bought for our school year. So you guys, in today's video, I am going to show you not only the school supplies that I bought for our upcoming school year, but I'm also going to share with you some school supplies that were definitely like keepers in my homeschooling year, school supplies that have been tried and true. So hopefully I can encourage or inspire some of you guys as far as some of the school supplies that I got. So first and foremost, I want to show you guys some of the more practical things and how I actually store them. So I use these, they're like $1.25 at Target. I wouldn't recommend buying these ones from the Dollar Tree because they break. So I got a little bit of higher quality ones from Target and I love these. I have five of them all together and I just store my basic, like, regular school supplies that you'll get. I did go shopping you guys at Target, Walmart and Dollar Tree because, you know, you have to shop at multiple places to find like everything you needed. Oh yeah. And I also utilized Amazon for some of my bigger school supply items, which I'll show you too as well. So in my first bin right here, this one is for my toddlers. I have a two and a four year old. I am doing like preschool and top schooling. So I bought a few packs of these huge jumbo crayons. They do like using the regular size crayons, but these were just so cute. I had to grab them and I also bought them another pack of this big Terraconda pencil for them, like the first pencils with the pencil sharpener. So this right here is like their bucket that I can go to for. The next bucket that I have right here, it has all different types of markers in it. So I got two packages of the Mondalama markers, like these are a thin tip markers for Brielle, who was my 10 year old. I also purchased what it says. I have four packages of just the basic fat Crayola crayons. And then I have one of the bright colors because my daughter loves having the bright colors every school year. So I have all of our markers in another one of these bins. So marker bin, the next bin right here that I have is for pencils. So I have two package of these Target brand number two pencils, just basic pencils. I have four packages of these Mondalama color pencils. You guys do not sleep on this brand. This brand is just as good as Crayola just to let you know. And Target does have like some of those like 20% off sales on these as well as if you are a homeschooling mom, you can utilize the teacher's discount in Target right now. So make sure you sign up for that extra discount before you go back to school shopping. So yeah, just a little tidbit in there. So I got four packages of color pencils. I also have some erasers in here. And as you can see, my daughter already dug into these. These are just eraser tops. And then I have like this cute strawberry eraser that Brielle seen at the Dollar Tree and she had to get it. So I was like, OK, cool. So this right here has or this bin right here has all of my pencils in it. My next bin that I have has just regular glue. I have my glue stick stored in another place, but this is just our regular glue. It's so crazy how much glue you go through like in a school year. So I think I bought like eight bottles of glue. And trust me, you guys, with preschoolers and like all the activities, you will use them. I mean, I know if you have like older kids, you probably won't go through as much glue as I'm still going through right now. But I definitely had to grab a lot. So yeah, something. This is my last bin, you guys, because I have five all together. And this one just has all of my crayons in it. So I picked up 10 boxes of crayons because I go through these like is nothing. So I have a whole bunch of crayons. And then I also picked up two color of the world crayons because my 10 year old Bree, she loves using these crayons. And yeah, so I got these. I also picked up the color pencils for her as well this school year because she wanted them. She already hit some of her school supplies off in her room because that's just Bree. She loves like art and things like that. So I did pick up the color pencils and the colors of the world set as well. So those are like my main basic school supplies. And I try to keep these bins filled up. And this lasts me like the whole school year. Now, some teacher supplies I'm going to show you guys is every year I buy this huge case of HP, HP, premium, 28 pound paper. I really love using 28 pound paper because I like the grip on it. And it's you don't see through in the back. This whole case right here is about 50 bucks, which is a lot. However, I only have to buy this like every like maybe every 14 months. So this lasts me for like over a year. So I bought this one, I think last year and I still have one more like realm of paper left in here. So yeah, I really think it's definitely worth it. I know the price of paper has gone up. So I might have to, you know, go down and get like 24 pound paper instead of 28 pound paper, but just having like a case of paper is always good. I don't have any like curriculum that I actually print off per se. But I do like to have printer paper there. If it's like extra supplemental practice sheets or different activity pages, I need to copy or whatever. I just like to have that. And again, that case allows me for like a long time. So I've had this one for a minute now. Something else that I do keep to is this parcel paper or this butcher paper for my toddlers. I do like a lot of activities with them. We utilize playing preschool for like most of our activities and our fun things. And I have to use this bit your paper a lot. So I get this roll right here from Amazon. And it's typically like $11 and I'm just able to do a lot of activities. And again, I only have to buy one of these. I think this is just my second time buying it. And I just purchased this one in July. So the other one that I purchased, I had it since last July. So this butcher paper lasts me for a whole years worth of like activity. So something that's practical for me in my home school, at least something else that I have like everyone else is a whole bunch of dry erase markers. I get the thin tip ones for Braille. She really likes these ultra fine tip ones, especially when she's doing math problems. And I have the big fat ones for Leia because we do her like morning binder work and she's starting to utilize dry erase boards a lot more my four year old. So I have two different kinds. I also went ahead and I picked up these ones from the Dollar Tree, you guys, because they're like $1.25. And, you know, these expo markers are pretty expensive. And if these babies work, I will start stocking up on these ones instead of the expo markers if these work just as good. So I just wanted to buy a pack just to see, you know, I want to save and cut corners any way that I possibly can. So these are my expo markers. I don't think that these is going to last me the whole year, but I got enough that it's going to last us maybe like half of the year because we do use like our dry erase boards a lot. Now, as far as like notebooks and things like that, I have a lot of notebooks. And you guys, this year I splurged on my notebooks because we started utilizing our school nest notebook, our mathematics notebook last year when we started Saxon Math. And it was such a great tool for me to be able to have this grid paper for a Brielle to learn how to like transfer her math problems when she was doing Saxon Math. So I'm going to show you guys a clips of how like her notebook looks on the inside and how she's gotten so good with like lining up her math problems and how this helps her makes fewer mistakes because she's able to clearly see her problems using the grid paper. So I absolutely love these notebooks. I'm going to show you guys briefly all the notebooks that I bought for this year. I love this too because these are going to be such a great keepsake for me. So here goes my big old stack right here of all the school nest notebooks. And I let Brielle pick out all the color she wanted. So again, I have my mathematics notebook for math. We're doing Saxon Math. I have her vocabulary notebook. If you guys aren't new here, you know, I absolutely love this vocabulary notebook and how it's formatted for Brielle to learn vocabulary. So this one definitely a must. I picked up just this regular fifth grade notebook for her for her to utilize for just any type of activities, any type of things, special we want to put in here, maybe primarily for like English and writing. We're probably going to use this fifth grade notebook for. I have a science notebook. And this one is really cool because inside of this one, they have like all of the things for like a temperature tracker. They have like the scientific method in here. And this one is really, really cool, especially as we're diving into science. We're going to be doing space and weather this year. Those are going to be like our two science units. So I think Brielle's going to really enjoy utilizing these notebooks. And it's going to be a keepsake for me because I love no booking in my home school, and if I can have it in a prettier way, I love it. Now, you guys, you don't have to go out and get these notebooks. You can still use like composition books because my composition books that Brielle did, they look just as great. So, yeah, so here goes the science one. I also have the history notebook, which is just going to document like all the history that we're going to be doing as we're going over different time periods. And then I have our big history timeline book where we are going to be documenting different time periods. And this one is just like a one time purchase because I really hope as we go throughout history, we can continue to document things on this timeline. And what's really cute about this one as well, it has a portion for them to document their own their own like childhood timeline as well. So I'm really excited, you guys, about like all of these school nest notebooks. And on the first day of school, I've seen on school nest, on her Instagram, she showed how she decorates her notebooks on the first day of school where her kiddos. So I grabbed some stickers and I don't know where I put them at. Stickers, where are you? OK, here they go. I grabbed some stickers right here so Brielle can like really have fun enjoying like putting some stickers on some of her notebooks, especially like her fifth grade one, because I think this is going to be the one that she's going to mainly use for like all of her keepsakes, writing different things like that. So yeah, so I'm really, really excited to utilize these again this school year. So along with that, you guys, I also have a school nest planner. I've been holding on to this baby for a while. I didn't want to start it in the middle of our school year last year. So I'm definitely utilizing my planner from school nest. So yes, I'm really, really happy about that one. Now back to some other school supplies that I have and that I purchase. I went ahead and I purchased some extra grit paper just in case we need some extra grit paper and I also purchased two packs of noble paper because I don't think we're really going to need noble paper because I have our specific journals. But when my daughter is doing like writing and she does her rough drafts, she does like to utilize just plain noble paper in her flex finder, which is this right here. Oh my gosh, you guys, like, I love these flex finders. These are from last year. Like, look how good they still look. So I love these flex finders because she just puts her noble paper in it. And when she is doing her writing assignments, she does like to use just regular noble paper. So yeah, noble paper, flex finders. Yes, I love them. Now, something else that I got was I got some more of these like dry erase leaves. I think this is just a pack of five just because I really like utilizing these ones with my younger toddlers. It really eliminates the paper waste. I'm able just to print off one sheet that I want them to work on and we can utilize like our dry erase marker. So I just bought some extras for right now. I do have some that we're already using. So I just have these on reserve, especially because they were on sale. I think this pack was like only five bucks on Amazon. Something else that I got from Target was this huge two and a half inch binder. This is how I document and I hold on to all of like real samples of her work throughout the year. And I just used this binder every single year. So this is my third binder. And as the year goes on, if it's special things, test quizzes, whatever the case may be, artwork, any type of special writing assignments, Ruby did, I just documented and I added to her portfolio binder. So this is going to be her new one for this upcoming school year. Something else that I did pick up for Ruby is I picked her up a new sketchbook. This one came from Target and it's just this huge sketchbook because Brielle loves sketching and drawing. And I think it's going to be so cool for us to just have one book to keep all of her drawings throughout the whole year to kind of see like her progress. So she picked this color out and she's so excited about this one. Along with art supplies, I did pick up this watercolor paper as well. And I also have a few art supplies that we didn't finish up using all the way. I have some watercolors and I have these pastels that I got from Amazon. These are just the chalk pastels right here. And these are also oil pastels. So these are like all of the main art mediums that Brielle is going to be using this year, which is going to be primarily chalk and watercolor. So hopefully she does enjoy it. We are going to be using our living art lessons from masterbooks. And these are the primary, I guess, mixed medium art supplies that we do need for that particular curriculum. Now, some stuff that I got from the Dollar Tree, you guys, from my younger two, I got this really cute like writing tablet. And hopefully as Leia is learning how to write her letters and to write her names, we can like utilize this simple writing manuscript tablet for her. So, yeah, I also always pick up these doodling pads for my younger ones that I can doodle. As you can see, this is a used one, but I love just this plain paper for them to just draw on and doodle in the morning time. This is a great way for me to keep their hands busy, especially while like I'm cooking breakfast and things like that. So I love grabbing these doodle pads from the Dollar Tree. Something else I have is just plain old construction paper. You always or at least in my house, I always need construction paper, especially for my younger ones, activities that they do with their curriculums and things like that. So a dollar twenty five, you can't beat it. I definitely would recommend going to the Dollar Tree instead of using like Target or the big brand stores for construction paper because it's just as good. So this pack will probably last me for a good minute. Now, some of my other favorites from last homeschooling year that I still utilize is my clipboard that I get from the Dollar Tree. I love these clipboard, you guys. They are just they're so great, especially if I have like a printable that I want for to do really, really fast or when she is doing her Saxon test. I always print off her test solution sheet on here so she can work on her clipboard. So clipboards definitely a must in our household. Now, something that I never really thought that I would use as much as I do are these like little key rings that I found at the Dollar Tree to poke holes on like all of like my I guess like my flash card type of things. This one right here is for Braille for like her learning like all of the metrics and things like that. So I use these little cute key rings for I have like all of my preschoolers like flash cards on them. This is their CVC words that hang up on the little key rings. This is the shapes for my two year old that we're going over. And I also use it for bigger things like this is how I connect my younger ones morning binder with her dry erase sleeves with these little key ring holes. And then this is my two year olds little alphabet book that I connect. So if you don't have like a binding machine or you do use like a lot of flash cards, these little simple key ring hooks are like amazing. You get like a pack of five of them at the Dollar Tree. So that's definitely like one of the homeschool supplies that I have used like over the years and it definitely keeps all of your like cards and things like organized a couple of more little things that I have used, tried and true homeschool supplies have been like these file folds that I use on my cards. I use them back here on like my bookshelf. I love these. These come in like a pack of 12 on Amazon. I always grab these. They're not like the best quality. I mean, I don't think they're going to last me years and years to come. But so far they have been holding up and I love these simple file folders, especially for like organizing like my teachers manuals, my curriculum, things like that. I love these babies. So you guys, this is like all of my homeschool supplies. I didn't do too bad this homeschool year. Like I said, a lot of this stuff, it really carries on for a while. And I'm happy that I really figured out like the different things that we use in our household. So you guys, thank you so much for watching today's video. I hope you enjoy it and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one.