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1. Share two classification or sorting activities that you use with the children in your class. How do you develop these activities and keep them interesting?
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Nancy Awamura

11/12/2017 03:05:13 pm

We used leftover Halloween Skittles and sorted them into color groups. Then we laid out patterns around the edges of white plates and poured warm water over them. Watching the colors run was a big hit!
We also often sort plastic bugs or animals into categories, depending on what our focus is at the time. The children can choose to sort by flying/non flying, scary/not scary, two legged/more than two legs, etc.

JoAnn Brooks

12/13/2017 01:13:47 pm

We like to use mini erasers for sorting and classifying. (Target often has seasonal mini erasers as well as everyday minis.) For example, in December the children sort erasers by shape (trees, stars, penguins, etc.) Then they sort by color or size. Every month we have different erasers the coordinate with the holiday of the month.

We also use colored beads that they sort into matching color bowls with same color tongs. Then they swap bowls and tongs to change it up.

We also use a sensory box where the children reach in and pull out an object. They then sort all the objects by texture.

Mergene Noble

12/14/2017 11:40:51 am

In the fall the children go outside and gather a bag full of fallen leaves. When inside we find out the names of the leaves and sort them by color, shape and size. After we use each group of leaves in a special class project.

We have a project in which the parents send one small object for each of the colors in the rainbow. When all of the items are collected the children sort them by color and place them on a large rainbow cut out, thus not only learning the colors of the rainbow but the color order.

We also use lots of items collected for different areas to sort textures.

Lynn

12/18/2017 06:36:57 pm

we have used a variety of types of buttons as well as types of beads of various size shapes and textures,
For beginners we actually use a variety of pictures they have to discuss why they are alike

Rachel

12/20/2017 12:38:40 pm

In my classroom we have the toddlers sort pictures according to color. They also do sorting activities with shapes. We will also use small objects within our sorting of colors.

Joann Nedd

3/10/2018 06:43:26 pm

In my classroom we have the toddlers sort pictures according to color. They also do sorting activities with shapes.

Rheta Vanderholm

12/24/2017 08:52:13 am

Most of our pre-toddler toys are stored in bins/plastic boxes according to what the specific toy is - blocks, animals, books, connector toys, balls, people, etc. The children love to "dump" the bins out. At cleanup time, most are able to sort/classify by helping put toys back into the corresponding bin. To help develop these activities and keep it interesting, we periodically switch out toys in the classroom.

lynn

12/27/2017 10:30:44 am

one activity I enjoy is to let the kids is sort buttons on the light table. sometimes I have a grid for sorting, sometimes the grid is blank and I allow the kids to sort the way they want.
another activity is organizing the home center. the children work well with sharing their own ideas on how things should be sorted and in the end I have a very neat center!

Sandi

12/27/2017 03:45:28 pm

We sort "Smarties" Each child gets their own roll and we sort them by color which can be difficult due to the size and the pastel colors. I use pictures of animals for the children to sort by land, sea or air. They sort by where the animal spends most of its time.

Stacey

12/29/2017 06:22:24 pm

One sorting activity I have is when putting away toys. Our megabloks are sorted according to color into bins of the same color. Similarly we have bins of different classifications of toys like train set and accessories, little people and accessories, all matchbox type vehicles etc.
I am definitely wanting to add some sorting bears or similar toys for individual play after begining this training.

Judi Dorsey

12/31/2017 02:10:51 pm

Lunch sort count plates cups silverware keep interested by changing up colors & sizes DC laundry sort washing drying sort again. They love both because it's routine & everyday life chores

Betsy

1/7/2018 10:29:59 pm

We have been exploring buttons as we explore the Pete the Cat books and visit the Pete the Cat play. During small group we have been exploring a jar of old buttons. Students have been exploring how to group the buttons (size, holes, colors, shapes...)

When we explore habitats we have a variety of plastic animals. We sort them by where they live, color size.

The same plastic animals are always available in our block area. Often students will group them by animals that are the same or into groups like "families"

Cheryl

1/16/2018 10:03:14 pm

We have a big tub of large legos that the kids sort by color or by size. The children sort the legos into the different classifications before we put them away. We also have a lot of A B C shapes. The pre-k children find the letters that match the color name and put them together with those color Legos. I try to switch to other things like vehicles, balls, buttons, dishes on different days so as not to become boring.

Kathryn Czerwinski

1/29/2018 11:04:18 am

We have a large bin of colored plastic animals and colored bowls. The children sort by color most often. I encourage them to find other ways to sort. By animal type, land/sea animals. We also do a people sort. I ask a question like do you like eggs? The kids sort themselves to the correct side yes or no.

Rebecca

1/31/2018 11:37:42 am

For the younger children in my class we start with sorting legos into groups depending on their color, then building something with one particular color. As the children get better at sorting and at counting we then start sorting legos based on the number of studs on each.

When we do our geology unit we have a big tub of various small stones that we let the children sort by whatever classification they want. At first we ask the kids what their sorting method was, even if it was something that seems obvious like color or size. For our school age kids we will have one child sort the stones then take one or two from each pile and combine the rest. Then another child will try to guess what the sorting mode is from the stones taken from each group.

Kelly Seymour

5/14/2018 08:04:34 pm

There have been a variety of ways my students have sorted in the classroom due to what they are learning during the week. Some of the items they have sorted are the animal counters, which can be sorted by color or by animal, separating bugs by how many legs they have, and putting different sizes of dinosaurs in order from small to big. I have also had my student sort animal pictures to where they live, move, or may feel. They seemed to really enjoy this activity.

Gabriella

5/22/2018 09:37:22 pm

In my classroom, we have infants, so classifying isn't a major activity. But we pull out some soft blocks and have them try and sort them based on color, or the picture on the block. When they are doing free play and trying to put different objects together, we encourage them and reinforce the sorting characteristic we think they are following. "I see you put that toy banana with the toy plate, those are both food items!".
We also have pictures that stick to the carpeted wall that they can pull off and put up wherever they please. We try to encourage them to sort those into categories as well.

Manjari

7/29/2018 05:23:19 pm

1. We do pom pom sorting sometimes based on color and sometime based on size. to make it interesting we use colored bowls to sort based on color and different size bowls.

2. We also do coin sorting, button sorting

Diana M

8/5/2018 02:36:57 pm

Share two classification or sorting activities that you use with the children in your class. How do you develop these activities and keep them interesting?

In my classroom I had used different things depending on our theme. For families we used a game called Count Ten Family groups, it comes with several moms, dads, babies, older kids and pets, also comes in different color. Another way for sorting and classifying is the use of Pegs and the board, children sort the Pegs by size or color or also, by how tall one color can go compare with the other colors.

Tracy Key

8/9/2018 09:28:06 am

I like to do nature walks while sorting with kids. One activity during the fall when the leaves are turning colors is to have the kids find a certain number of leaves by color. 1 green, 2 red, 3 yellow, 4 orange, etc. for example. Another example is for us to go find pinecones and sort them by size for our different art projects such as making our large turkey pinecones...so, so cute...or x-mas tree ornaments, etc.

kenda sipma

10/1/2018 02:09:26 pm

Yes! I love using nature as a way of sorting, especially in the fall!

Richelle Jensen

8/9/2018 11:59:07 pm

to incorporate nature we have the children gather items from outside then sort them into similar plants, sizes, and colors

Ginger Lumpkin

8/16/2018 11:32:51 pm

I have several bins with differant kinds of blocks in them The kids like to dump them out to play with them. When they put them away, they have to sort them and put them in the right bin. I change the bins every so often to make it interesting.

tracy forslin link

9/17/2018 07:16:54 pm

I have a muffin tin, each tin labeled 1-12. In each tin there are different small items such as buttons, shells, pennies, erasers, shapes, etc. In each tine there is the corresponding amount that the # says. They dump it all out on a rug or mat, and sort and count the objects and match to the correct tin #.

I have three small wicker fruit baskets labeled red/green/yellow with a bowl of red/green/yellow apples to sort into the baskets.

Kenda Sipma

10/1/2018 02:08:00 pm

The most sorting we do is with the hot wheels cars. The children play with them almost every day and it is an easy way to help teach colors, by sorting.
We also sort blocks, we have wooden with no color and wooden with color to sort. Also sorting by size and shape is a way we sort the blocks.

Lira Cernacovschi

10/15/2018 07:42:06 pm

Our circle time every day ends with a sorting activity. It's fun to see all the children sorting themselves by color of their shirt or shoes.
A seasonal game that we are using now is sorting pumpkins by colors or snape.

Suzanne K. Austin

10/22/2018 04:28:43 pm

We have building blocks of various sizes and colors and functions (some are rounded, some have holes, etc) We sort them then we try to build in a pattern. We have a wonderful selection of lifelike plastic people. We sort by job, dress, skin color, hair, etc.

Patty Hurst

11/5/2018 01:41:51 pm

Blocks made from wood and blocks made from foam.

Sorting beads that are different colors

stacey watne

11/6/2018 09:10:31 pm

We have a great sorting work in the classrooom that divides objects into smooth and rough categories. We also sort buttons based on size, shape, color and holes.

melissa

12/7/2018 10:43:33 am

I have a sensory bucket of many types of beans, the children like to sort them by type or color. We have buckets of toys that are sorted by type, blocks, people, music...at clean up time the children help put them in the correct buckets.

Christina Riggs-Johnson

12/27/2018 12:26:46 pm

Farm animal sorting-Students can sort by size, color, and even by how many legs the animals have.
PomPom ball sorting-sorting the ball in groups by colors and size, I like to add using tongs on placing the balls into bottles to add fine motor to it

Thomas Stepanski

12/30/2018 11:39:12 am

We have many classification materials at our school. Popular ones are baskets of bears of different shapes, colors, and sizes. There are also family figures, mom, dad, sister, brother, baby, dog, and cat. The variety of pieces allow children at different development levels to explore and learn.

Terri

6/11/2019 09:19:17 am

I provide tubs for the children that have two different colors of varying objects that they then sort by color and match up with cards that represents each color. These are also holiday or theme related which adds additional sorting choices. Sometimes I use beans or rice in the tubs so that the children also get to unearth the objects that are hidden.

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