Age suitability: Early Learners & Pre-Schoolers
The process of sorting involves grouping objects or events according to their similarities.
Classifying and sorting activities help children to develop a range of thinking skills and build the foundations for later problem solving.
Sorting can be done anywhere:
in the kitchen: return clean cutlery to the cutlery drawer
in the laundry: sorting clothes for each member of the family
in the garden: collect a range of different leaves and then sort them. how many types of leaves did you find?
Activity sheets:
- Provide your child with a mix of different categories to sort, e.g.: air, sea and land transport, winter and summer clothes, vegetables and fruits etc.
- Providing them with black and white images would encourage them to further enhance their fine motor skills by colouring the pictures in.
- Give your child the names of these objects/things to enhance their vocabulary.
- Provide separate sheets of paper for the images to be categorised and pasted.
Here is Irfana sorting some animals into land animals and sea animals.