Sorting math kindergarten

A blog about a Kindergarten classroom.

Math centers for kindergarten have never been so much fun! These Pom Pom Math Centers are a fun hands-on way for students to practice their math skills.

One of the Common Core Standards for Kindergarten is to classify objects into categories and count the number of objects in each category. We begin our school year with this standard because it's an easy one that all the students can usually master. We actually begin by introducing our math manipulatives in exploring centers- I get out the different manipulatives and let the kids explore them. I've actually covered that here, if you want to see how I introduce math manipulatives and centers…

We sorted these pom poms by size and then transferred them onto the canvases again to put on our sorting wall.

Sorting Shapes! Love that these shapes have different: colors, sizes and thickness as students are sorting by shape! #kindergartenteacher #prekteacher...

One of the first big math units we teach at the beginning of the year is Sorting. I find that students naturally gravitate to sorting all kinds of things in the classroom on a daily basis anyways! For instance, they sort toys when cleaning up, place crayons by colour in the basket, blocks are sorted by size, etc. Whenever I teach sorting, I like to provide opportunities for students to tell me how they think we can form groups of similar things rather than just give them a sorting rule…

Read about activities, lessons, and centers you can implement to help teach numbers. Download 6 free activities for your students.

Teaching preschool students how to classify and sort builds strong reasoning skills. Unit 3 introduces classifying and sorting by categories such as

Sorting by attributes is a big fundamental skills taught in every early childhood classroom. Classifying and sorting is a unit that starts off math instruction for the school year. However, things like classroom management, getting to know your learners and other back to school craziness can take priority during the beginning of the school year.