Request for Science Unit Supplies

We need your help in gathering supplies for our in-class science activities. Please review the list and contact nmaeng@aol.com regarding any items you can provide. We will then contact you with a confirmation prior to your bringing the items to class.

Your contribution will have a direct impact on your child's science learning experience. If any of you work for or with companies that may be willing to donate some of these supplies, please consider approaching them and let us know if you will need a donation form from ISM.

Our goal is to have communication from all of you by this coming Monday, September 15, and all of the supplies actually in our classrooms no later than next Friday, September 19.

ISM 4th GRADE SCIENCE SUPPLY LIST
EARTH'S SURFACE UNIT - 2008/09

(Quantities noted are for both classes combined)

• Samples of limestone, quartzite, sandstone, slate, and pumice -- should be small and of consistent size, about 2- or 3-inch cubes
  
• Sandpaper (10 packages)
• Straws (200)
• Modeling clay (2 lbs.)
• Safety goggles (20)
• 20 clean jars with lids, 12-ounce size, smooth sides for observation, no labels.
• 10 plastic paint trays with 1/2” hole drilled in the bottom – even better would be 10 long bus trays, also with a hole drilled at one end
• 10 5-gallon buckets (detergent or cat litter buckets are fine, no lids needed)
• 10 pint- or quart-size plastic yogurt/cottage cheese/sour cream containers to use as scoops
• Cool rocks from different places
• Play sand, 50 pounds per classroom
• Pea gravel or small rocks, 1 cu ft to share between the classrooms
• Bagged soil, 1 cu ft to share between the classrooms
• Astroturf scraps (about 1 square foot per classroom)
• Paper cups (200)
• 20 large cartons (i.e. paper boxes)
• 10 dishtowels
• Hardboiled eggs – 2 dozen (teachers will probably have to provide these)
• Plastic knives and spoons (50 of each)
• Toothpicks (2 boxes)
• Oranges, 2 dozen
• 10 Aluminum turkey trays

Barbara Okamura (Tanner's Mom)