That's great that you're looking ahead to plan for the start of the coming school year, making sure your child is prepared for 5th Grade. As a former teacher, I would recommend getting in touch with the school to find out what is appropriate for supplies. It typically varies from school to school, teacher to teacher and year to year.

Sometimes teachers send home notices to parents about supplies prior to the beginning of the year and sometimes they send one home during the first week back to school. If your child's school has a website, you might look there to see if a 5th grade student supply list is posted or get in touch with a student/students that you know will be in your child's class. I would hesitate going out to buy anything until you know what is recommended or acceptable and not waste money.

For home, I would recommend purchasing reference books, e.g., a college dictionary, a thesaurus and an atlas to compliment your child's learning. You can also find these tools online.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/ - dictionary & thesaurus
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ - dictionary & thesaurus

http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Maps/ - a list of atlas/map related sites

Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Lori

A supply list usually refers to supplies needed for that academic school year. For example, a kindergarten supply list would probably be a lot less than a fifth grade list.
The following is a reference article related to the lists.
http://www.education.com/blog/tag/school-supplies/
Thanks,
Rachna

I found one more article which maybe useful to you.
http://www.education.com/magazine/article/backtoschoolsupplies/

This is the list I got for my 5th grader:
Zipper notebook
Two pocket folders in these colors: [urple, green, red, blue & yellow
Number 2 pencils
Scissors
Coloring materials, i.e. crayons, markers or colored pencils
Red pen
Highlighter
2 boxes of tissues

Hope this helps.

Supply lists for the elementary and middle school grades are often available in the "back to school area" of your local box stores (e.g. Target, Walmart,Staples, etc.)  Our stores have a simple board where all of the local schools' supply lists are posted.  I noticed that many stores are having great school supply sales in July!

Louise Masin Sattler, NCSP
Nationally Certified School Psychologist
Owner of Signing Families
http://www.SigningFamilies.com

dear my2daughters,

When you log in to education.com you will see a link that says back to school just click on it, enter your grade that you are searching for and they will provide you with a down loadable check list. Or try walmart.com

hey my2daughters,

nice name

some fifth grade schools supplies would be

pencils, pens, notebooks, folders, calculater, crayons, sharpener, erasers,