Kindergarten Supply List

2025-2026

Please make sure your child’s name is on the items listed below.

(label with permanent marker):

• Large backpack (no wheels)
• Beach Towel (NO REST MATS, THEY ARE TOO BIG)– for rest time- (towel will be sent home occasionally for washing)
• A change of clothes in a gallon Ziploc bag – label clothes tags and bag with child’s name (these will remain in cubbies unless needed- when soiled clothes are sent home, please replace items)
• Water Bottle (NO GLASS, well-sealed, drip, and spill-proof) Be sure your child can open it, fill it, and close it INDEPENDENTLY.

Please do not write your child’s name on the items listed below.

They will be placed in a community box, for all kids.

• 4 Boxes of Crayola crayons –(16 or 24 count)
• 6 glue sticks
• 1 box of Crayola markers (regular colors)
• 12 Sharpened Pencils (Ticonderoga are best)
• 8 black Expo dry-erase markers (NO COLORED PLEASE)
• 2 boxes of tissues

• 1 Pencil Box
• 2 Containers of PlayDough
• 1 Box of Gallon Ziplock Bags
• 1 Box of Quart Ziplock Bags
• 1 package of baby wipes

If you would like to “gift” our classroom with any of the following items, it would be appreciated.

• Clorox Wipes
• Hand Sanitizer (8 oz or 16 oz please)
• Extra box of snacks ( ex: a box of cereal, goldfish, pretzels)

***NOTE: WE DO NOT NEED HEADPHONES.***

Thank you in advance!!

The Temple School Kindergarten Curriculum is based on the following expectations beginning PRIOR to Kindergarten:

• recite nursery rhymes
• identify body parts
• know left and right
• know and follow direction words (i.e. over, below, behind, etc.)
• follow 2 step directions
• put a 10-20 piece puzzle together
• recognize first and last names
• write their first name
• know shapes
• know colors
• tie shoes
• repeat a rhythmic pattern of 3 (slap, snap, clap...)
• the correct way to hold a pencil/crayon/scissors
• recognize ABCs in random order
• recognize numbers 0-10 in random order
• sit quietly for a story for 10 minutes
• zip and button
• experience with coloring and cutting
• able to hold a book correctly
• distinguish between print and picture

• Help your child learn their sight words!

• Create and use flashcards
• Practice writing words in sand or salt on a paper plate
• Practice “building” sight words using Legos, bathroom cups, popsicle sticks, and or blocks
• Play memory with words written on popsicle sticks, index cards, plastic spoons, etc.
• Practice making words with magnetic letters
• Write the sight words on index cards and place them all over your house (have your child name them when he/she enters a room, before bedtime, etc.)
• Save your milk, juice, or water bottle caps and write their sight words on the caps
• Use egg cartons and plastic eggs to match sight words
• Make sight word puzzles
• Write the sight words on ping pong balls and play “catch” (i.e. throw me “for”)
• Put chocolate pudding or paint in a Ziploc bag (seal it tight) and have your child practice making words.
• Find an old“Twister Game” and instead of playing the game the traditional way, write sightwords on the colored circles and instead of calling out colors, call out sight words.
• Write sight words on a variety of objects and allow children to “discover” objects and read words
• Create a“rock garden”. Collect rocks around your house and write sight words on them
• Use sidewalk chalk and practice writing the words all over the sidewalk
• Write sight words in permanent marker on rubber ducks and practice sight words in the bathtub
• Use any old games you have lying around (Don’t Break the Ice, Jenga, CandyLand) and turn them into a sight word game.
• Practice reading sight words everywhere and anywhere! Practice in the car, look at magazines or newspapers, read cereal boxes, find sight words at the store or in books.
• Practice writing sight words!

PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE! Kindergarten Sight Word List!

Unit 8

1. is
2. did
3. a 

Unit 9

4. at
5. got
6. it
7. its
8. sit

Unit 10

9. fast
10. if
11. off
12. I

Unit 11

13. get
14. let
15. tell

Unit 12

16. had
17. has
18. his
19. hot
20. the

Unit 13

21. cut
22. full
23. us

Unit 14

24. best
25. big
26. but
27. of

Unit 15

28. red

Unit 16

29. an
30. and
31. can
32. in
33. not
34. on
35. ran
36. run
37. ten
38. no

Unit 17

39. am
40. him
41. must
42. for

Unit 18

43. help
44. pull
45. stop
46. up
47. upon
48. put

Unit 19

49. seven

Unit 20

50. into
51. well
52. went
53. will
54. to 

Unit 21

55. ask

56. black
57. drink
58. pick
59. like

Unit 22

60. jump
61. just
62. said

Unit 23

63. six
64. yes
65. you

Unit 24

66. was

*memory words