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Sorting & Classifying are skills necessary for preschool age children and beyond. Look for age appropriate activities for sorting by shape, color, and size.
Sample Lesson: Sorting Stickers by Size, Shape, and Color
Learning Objective:
The children will sort foam stickers by color, shape, and size
Materials:
~3 circles cut from construction paper
Katie at Katie's Nesting Spot offers a clever activity for sorting by color using her fabulous button collection. Her daughter uses them to sort by color. However buttons can also be sorted by size, the number of holes in them, and light or dark. They can be used for counting and for making simple patterns. Watch a video how-to, by ehow, on sorting by attribute.
~3 circles cut from construction paper
~1 variety package of foam stickers (this was a winter pack)
Steps:
1. Presort the stickers so you are only offering a reasonable amount of self-chosen stickers for the kids to work on (based on attention span, age, etc.)
2. Ask the children to sort the stickers into piles based on their shape.
3. Mix them back together before asking children to sort the stickers into piles based on color
4. Finally practice sorting the stickers in piles based on size: small, medium, large (on corresponding construction paper circles)
Here are a few other ideas to get you started.
Steps:
1. Presort the stickers so you are only offering a reasonable amount of self-chosen stickers for the kids to work on (based on attention span, age, etc.)
2. Ask the children to sort the stickers into piles based on their shape.
3. Mix them back together before asking children to sort the stickers into piles based on color
4. Finally practice sorting the stickers in piles based on size: small, medium, large (on corresponding construction paper circles)
Here are a few other ideas to get you started.
Take pictures of objects from around your house and use them in this Familiar Objects Sort.
Katie at Katie's Nesting Spot offers a clever activity for sorting by color using her fabulous button collection. Her daughter uses them to sort by color. However buttons can also be sorted by size, the number of holes in them, and light or dark. They can be used for counting and for making simple patterns. Watch a video how-to, by ehow, on sorting by attribute.
Katie has also used older versions of, and recommends, the following activities available from Lakeshore Learning: Comparing Sizes Concept Kit, My First Sorting Bears, and the Sorting Mystery Box.
Chasing Cheerios shares two different sorting activities that have been organized into travel activity bags. The first activity uses multi-color & multi-shaped pasta.
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The second activity uses counting bears to be sorted into corresponding colored bowls..JPG)
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Chasing Cheerios shares two different sorting activities that have been organized into travel activity bags. The first activity uses multi-color & multi-shaped pasta.
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The second activity uses counting bears to be sorted into corresponding colored bowls.
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Jenny at Our Nifty Notebook chose conversation hearts for her fun sorting activity. This can done with Lucky Charms cereal for St. Patrick's Day and Fruit Loops year round.
Play a fun game online at Scholastic, Flo and Zoe Sort It Out features characters from the popular book series Clifford the Big Red Dog. Kids help sort by color, shape, pattern, use, and more.
Nick Jr. also has online games that practice matching and sorting, at least 36 games! Practice basic skills with your child's favorite cartoon character.
Hubbard's Cupboard shows sorting activities, shares a PDF for sorting mats, and give more ideas for what to sort including: magnetic or not, sink or float, and texture sorting.
This final activity gives preschool children the opportunity to sort by shape.
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love the sorting we do that alot! divided subject would be good!
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Because I am a work out of home mom, I have to go into the activities I like and bookmark them! I will have to get organized myself!
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I think the posts should be labeled by subject area. By age-level would be difficult, because children in the same age level will have varying abilities. Plus, many activities can be adapted to older or younger kids.
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ReplyDeleteSometime I have kiddos that have not experienced anything prior to introducing an exercise. They may know "red" but not "triangle." And some kids come with no scissors skills (ugh!). I'd like to tailor activities so that they can be brought up to the level of their classmates without them losing interest and heaping frustraition.
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ReplyDeleteMy 2 1/2 year old plays with fake money coins of different colors. I watched her one day as she sorted them by color all by herself. I was so proud, sniff.
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ReplyDeleteI think that by subject area since there are so many different levels of learning in a grade level. I teach kindergarten and have some students already on almost a second grade level.
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