Sorting and classifying kindergarten

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Animal sort and classify labels, mats and worksheet activities ~ Fairy Poppins

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

Free worksheets for identifying and sorting shapes by a variety of attributes including; color, size, shape, thickness and more. Great for early learning math skills.

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…

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...