The first classroom is a blank room with a budget problem: everything feels essential and nothing is cheap. These are the supplies a new kindergarten teacher will actually use on day one — not the decorative stuff that looks good in the haul video, but the materials that hold a room together when twenty-two five-year-olds are learning what scissors are for.
“The one reliable rule of gift-giving: anything that makes them look more serious at what they love will be received with disproportionate gratitude.”
Friends claim items. No duplicates. No awkward conversations.



