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Homework Survival Kit

A Homework Survival Kit helps you to organize supplies needed for your child's homework time. A kit makes a great gift for birthdays or holiday giving.

Let your child help create and assemble the Homework Survival Kit. He/She will feel ownership of the kit and will also know what is inside the container to support his/her learning.

Survival Kit Items

  • Container (plastic/cardboard box)
  • Homework Survival KitPencils, pencil sharpener
  • Pens
  • Dictionary
  • Folders
  • Eraser
  • Ruler
  • Calculator
  • Glue/tape
  • Paper/Notebook
  • Stapler
  • Scissors
  • Paper clips
  • Colored pencils/markers
  • Other age-appropriate items

The Homework Survival Kit contents may be placed in a shoe box, file box, or other kind of container and stored in a closet, under a child's bed, in a special corner designated for homework, or any place where children can access it when they want to need to use it.

You can use the kit for the whole family or decide to assemble a kit for each child. Decide what is best for your family.

You may want to find a box that will be just the right size for your child to use at a desk. You may also want to create a kit that your child could carry outside on a sunny day, on a vacation or family outing.

Check the content in the kit on a regular basis so you can replenish items to avoid running out of anything at a critical time.

Additional Information

Check KUED Channel 7's web site http://www.kued.org/ for great ideas on creating other kits by typing ‘kits' in their search box.

http://www.kued.org/misc/pdfs/outreach/edConn/EnglishEdConn.pdf