Transitional Kindergarten is all about fun, hands on learning. It's helpful to have a "tool box" of supplies ready to help your child explore, create, and learn with different mediums and in different ways. Here are a few suggestions of items that can be helpful on your learning journey.

Basic School Supplies

Just starting out? Here are some great supplies to have on hand for daily activities:

  • Training Scissors

  • Glue (Both in stick and liquid form)

  • White paper

  • Handwriting Paper

  • Construction/colored paper

  • Crayons

  • Markers

  • Colored Pencils

  • Beginner Pencils

  • Big Erasers

  • Folders to organize work

  • Printer/Ink

  • Whiteboard/Markers

  • Ruler

  • Pencil Sharpener

Fun Learning Tools

School doesn't have to be done with just pencil and paper! Using creative, hands on ways to learn math, language, social studies and math is a great way to make "school time" fun! Check out some of the linked items below for some ideas on how to use these things in your homeschool day.

Subscription Boxes

Ivy Kids- Each kit contains a book and 10 or more math, art, literacy and engineering activities to go along with the story and covers Math, Langage Arts, Science and Art.

Rally Felt Co.- Each box contains a book and felt pieces/backgrounds to retell and customize the story.

Early Explorers (by Little Passports)- Discover the world’s wonders, from oceans to art to animals, through hands-on activities, games and stories

Animals Wild (by Little Passports)- Play with and learn about Earth’s most fascinating animals through hands-on playsets, laugh-out-loud games, and fun facts and activities

Green Kid Crafts Junior- Creative, nature-based STEAM activities. Comes with 4-6 screen free activities and 12 page learning magazine


Places Please- Imaginative Play Box. Each month receive "A storybook, Three to five props and/or costume pieces, A Parent Resource Guide filled with ideas on imaginative play scenarios, questions to inspire conversation, warm-ups such as fun tongue twisters, and many other ideas to spark creativity and imagination, A treat for your audience, and A custom storage box."


Talk Box- Foreign Langages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Romanian.

Recommended Ages: All. Each box contains language guides to display/use and challenges for a specific topic of conversation. No one in the home needs to speak the language to use the program. Works on a natural language acquisition format. Comes with access to app


Hola Amigo- Learning Spanish. Toddler, Pre-K to 1st boxes. Play-based bilingual learning. Learning activities, games and crafts to teach language and introduce new countries and cultures.


Kid Stir- Each box contains 3 recipes, quality kitchen tools, magazine, achievement stickers, and shopping list. Also includes access to online tutorial videos and games.


Raddish Kids- Cooking, Baking, or Global Eats. Includes educational recipe guides, quality kitchen tool, monthly collectibles, culinary skill lessons, complete grocery list, and access to online content.


I’m The Chef Too- STEAM based Baking. Each box contains 1 recipe with a recipe card, 1 STEAM activity with a shopping list, Pre Measured Dry Ingredients and Specialty Supplies. Can order as a subscription or individual boxes.


KiwiCo- Koala Crate Themed crates provide 2-3 hands on learning activities in every box.









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