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My son had a pencil caddy on his desk last 2 years and this year, cause he is in JH, he has a locker so he can haul around just the things he needs. I got him a small magnetic pencil cup for his locker and a shelf.
Hope that works.
I also ended up buying a few nice things at the UW bookstore...I found the us constitution pencil as well, and a very nice student day runner that has all the UW info in it. Even when they have games, and what you need to graduate.
We try.
But I really like their note books. Nest year I am shopping there. Everything he needs plus some, and it is not made in CHINA. At least I had the options there.
Both my kids schools order day runners that we must purchase from them. The elementary school one is pretty basic, so it is $8; I don't know how much the middle school one is (DH wrote the check for it). It is very customized for the school and contains contact info, school rules, dress code, and lots and lots of pages with stuff like periodic tables, multiplication charts, instructions on how to write a report....
The middle school has lockers that they made them tall and very, very narrow so no one gets a bottom locker, and not even the skinniest kid can get shoved in one. Alex has to remove his books from his backpack just so he could fit the pack in the locker! What is really stupid is they don't allow the kids to go to their lockers between classes (unless it is lunch time) nor do they allow the kids to bring their backpacks into the classroom! I bought Alex this mega-binder/book bag combo thing to hold all stuff he needs to schlep around with him. It is one of those cloth covered zip-around binders with 2 sets of 3" rings in it, a built in accordian file and 2 built-in pencil-cases. It can easily hold 3 spirals (day-timer, graph paper and Language arts), 2 black compostion books, 2 packs binder paper, plus all the subject dividers, and his calculator when we find it (they specify brand and model on that too). I can't get all the colored pencils, the tape dispenser, 24 pencils (did put in 2 of the 5 required mechanical pencils), most of the glue sticks and other bulky stuff in, so they are in a box in his locker. Alex loves the binder/bookbag thing. Last year he carried a regular binder (the cover kept tearing off) and schlepped all those notebooks and pencil bags loose. Sometimes he'd drop the binder, and all the papers would fly everywhere. I hope this one holds up better! It was pretty pricey, but not as high as relplacing all those normal binders. I did see on the school supply list, they specified "No zip-around binders". I'm breaking that rule!
The teacher bought the whole calass the costco binders last year and it was great. Had a handle and zipper and the whole 9 yards.
