School Supply Drive

Throughout the month of August, WES will be supporting Family and Friends of Incarcerated People by host a school supply drive! We hope you’ll join us in supporting the children’s need for school supplies by helping them start out the school year fully stocked! We are asking that all donations be at WES by August 20.

Want to make a big commitment to a child? Fill their complete school supply list!

Stuff the sack with school supplies! Pick a student’s list from the coat tree to sponsor a child or youth from FFOIP.  At the end of month, we will have an ice cream social party with  FFOIP to organize supplies into backpacks to get the school year started off with fun, friends, and needed supplies.

 

K-12 School Supply List

An exciting new school year is approaching. We’ve listed some items to help your child have a productive and fun year.

Kindergarten – 2nd Grade

  • 1 bottle of white, liquid gluePhoto of container of crayons
  • 1 1arge, pink eraser
  • 2 glue sticks
  • 1 box of tissues to share
  • 1 box of crayons
  • 1 box of markers or colored pencils
  • A backpack
  • 12, #2 pencils
  • 2 dry-erase markers
  • 1 pair of safety scissors
  • 1small school  box or zipper pouch for school supplies
  • 2, two-pocket folders
  • 2 wide-ruled notebooks
  • 1 ruler (inches and centimeters)

3rd- 5th Grades

  • 1 box of crayons
  • 1 box of markers or colored pencils
  • 12, #2 pencils
  • 1 school box or zippered pouch for school supplies
  • 3 big glue sticks
  • 5, two-pocket folders
  • 3-Ring Binder, 1 1/2″ or 2″
  • 1 pack wide-ruled, loose leaf paper
  • 1 pair of scissors
  • 2 large erasers
  • 1 box of tissues  to share
  • 2 highlighters
  • 1 pack of3x5 index cards (white)
  • 2 spiral, wire bound notebooks
  • A backpack
  • 2 marble  composition notebooks
  • Protractor
  • Basic calculator
  • Ruler (inches and centimeters)

6th – 8th Grades

  • Backpack
  • Several #2 pencils
  • Extra erasers
  • Several pens (blue or black)
  • 1 box of crayons
  • 1 box of markers or colored pencils
  • 2 glue sticks
  • 1/2 inch 3-ring binder
  • 2 composition or spiral notebooks
  • Dividers-at least 6
  • 1 pack of graph paper
  • 2 packs of loose leaf paper
  • 4, two-pocket folders
  • 2 highlighters
  • Scissors
  • 1 set of 3X5 ruled index cards
  • Ruler (inches and centimeters)
  • Compass

 

9th – 12th Grades

  • Backpack
  • 3-ring binders,  one for each class (5 approximately)
  • Dividers
  • #2 Pencils
  • Ballpoint pens (blue or black)
  • Highlighters
  • Erasers
  • 1 box of colored pencils, markers or crayons
  • Loose leaf, college-ruled notebook paper
  • Index cards
  • Glue sticks
  • Pack of graph  paper
  • Composition or spiral notebooks
  • Ruler (inches and centimeters)
  • Compass
  • Protractor

Youth in DC middle and high school need graphing calculators which is specific to school and teacher. If you don’t want to or cannot sponsor an entire backpack, consider donating cash or a gift card to Amazon/Staples/generic so that we can buy or have students buy the graphing calculators they need for their particular school. Contact Melissa to donate (melissas@ethicalsociety.org).