Back to school. Junior High

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READY, SET,M I D D L E SCHOOL!

• GRADES 6-8
• Junior High Edition
• Get Educated about Middle School Supply
  Essentials

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Elementary School VS Middle School

• Unlike elementary school, where students are
  asked to creatively integrate material, middle
  school demands that students learn, memorize, and
  repeat back information
• The ability for your child to do work well is
  within him/her- he/she is responsible for making
  use of his/her study habits. It is in middle
  school that your child will realize that it is
  his/her responsibility to perform well in school
• Homework assignments are much more common in
  middle school than they are in elementary school
• Transporting homework materials and textbooks
  back and forth is a challenge alone!
• One of the real challenges of getting homework
  done is making sure that each of the books,
  handouts, and assignment lists are home when
  they're needed. 

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Middle School is T O U G H !

• Transitioning into Junior High means buckling
  down! It is not the easiest transition for all
  children, but its your childs first major
  transition into adulthood
• Subjects like math, science, history, and
  language arts become more challenging Make sure
  your children stay organized, keeping stress at
  bay!

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Academic Planner

• It is of UTMOST importance that your child
  maintain his/her academic planner academic
  planners teach students time management skills
  that will help him/her out when he/she enters
  high school.

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Three to Five Star Notebook

• Each subject should be reserved for a specific
  class your child is taking.
• Encourage diligent note taking
• Students who take good notes do a better job at
  listening during class
• Good notes give students a better starting point
  for studying
• Read over the note you took everyday before class

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Colored Pens and Highlighters

• Color-coding, hi-lighting, and underlining are
  important habits for your child to acquire when
  reading important school-related material
• -Benefits of color-coding
• -Improves study morale
• -Studies show that students who study color
  coded material using color ball pens or
  highlighters score higher than students who study
  conventional black and white formats
• -Color coded material means fewer eye fixations,
  which means that studying becomes a much more
  fluid and enjoyable process
• -So encourage your kids to hi-light and color
  code their notes!

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Pocket Folders

• To transport all of your middle schoolers
  homework, creative writing brilliance, and
  everything in between!
• Its useful to color code your childs pocket
  folders according to a specific subject
• For instance
• Green Earth Science Yellow Algebra Etc.

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A Calculator

• We cant tell you which EXACT type of calculator
  to purchase for your middle schooler, but he/she
  probably wont need a graphing calculator until
  High School
• Safe bet Your middle schooler will do well with
  a basic intelligent calculator, like this one.

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Graph Paper and Loose Leaf Paper

• Middle schoolers eventually learn how to plot a
  graph in their math classes. They will be asked
  to draw graphs on their own graph paper and hand
  it as homework. Graph paper is a necessity!
• Loose-leaf paper is essential to handing in
  assignments too! If your child doesnt want to
  rip pages of his/her notebooks, extra loose leaf
  paper will always come in handy

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Flash Drive

• Flash drives are a crucial item for your child to
  own. Flash drives enable students to work on the
  same project both at home and at junior high.
• While online software systems, like Dropbox,
  provide services that are similar to that of a
  flash drive, flash drives provide extra assurance
  to your middle schooler, since it guarantees that
  all of his/her assignments will be in on time.

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A Sturdy Backpack
In the United States, 92 of kids carry backpacks
that hold 10-22 of their body weight

• Pick a backpack that has
• Chest and/or hip straps and a padded back, to
  decrease stress on the back and enhance comfort
• Has reflective material on the back, so that it
  can be seen at night
• Has many individual pockets, to distribute weight
  evenly

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Never Forget 2 Pencils Big Pink Erasers!

• Standardized testing usually requires the use of
  a 2 pencil. Do NOT have your middle schooler be
  without one!

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Hand Sanitizer

• Nearly 22 million days of school are missed
  annually due to the common cold
• A case control study of 6,080 schools reported
  that those who enforced classroom-dispensed
  instant hand sanitizer at specific times
  throughout the day experienced 20 fewer absences
  due to illness

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A Reusable Water Bottle

• Keep our pre-teens loving the planet! Especially
  during hot months, a reusable water bottle makes
  all the difference. Keep these facts in mind
• In response to public concern, manufacturers have
  developed BPA-free reusable water bottles.
• When you use a reusable water bottle, you help
  reduce the production of bottled beverages and
  therefore, the landfill and recycling burden of
  the bottles. 
• Buying and using a reusable water instead of
  bottled water saves you money over the long term.
  
• In fact, Greeniacs.com reports that bottled water
  can cost up to 10,000 times as much per gallon as
  tap water.

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SOURCES

• http//www.itsasnap.org/snap/statistics.asp
• http//eyetrackingupdate.com/2009/11/10/pupil-trac
  king-reveals-why-color-coding-study-materials-is-a
  -good-idea/
• http//home-school-online.blogspot.com/2013/06/tip
  s-note-taking-exercises-for-middle.html
• http//www.edudemic.com/2011/10/heavy-backpacks/
• http//www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-a
  bout-arts-education
• http//www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thinking-about
  -kids/201201/keep-your-middle-schooler-organized