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toolkit
By cvt

When I did my student teaching (15 years ago), my teaching college supervisor made all of us student teachers buy one of those plastic toolkits (for tools like hammers and screwdrivers) and had us get a pair of regular scissors
and one of those specialty scissors (for fancy edges), a set of permanent markers, a glue stick and a bottle of glue, stickers, index cards, crayons (flesh-colored was big then), some colored pens, Scotch tape, a whistle, and I forget what else. I still have that toolkit. When I, in turn, get student teachers in my classroom, I give them one of those as a goodbye gift and fill it

to the rim with what I think they may need (like a Starbucks card).
I like Toni's digital camera idea. Make sure to take tons of pictures during your student teaching, not just of your own classroom but also the other classrooms. I still bring a camera with me when I visit another school, just in case I see some fantastic ideas.
The other posts are right about buying classroom materials. Don't do it until you get your own class.