By: Yesika Diaz, Veronica Gonzalez, Courtney Davis, Margarita Villa, Nancy
Avalos, Oralia Gonzalez
NUMBERS AND OPERATIONS:
CLASSIFYING AND SORTING
CLASSIFYING AND SORTING
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Grouping objects by a common characteristic, such as size,
shape, and color.
LEARNING GOALS
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Students will be able to recognize different types of
categories, such as colors, shapes, size, or similar
properties and attributes. Students will be able to explain
and justify why certain objects belong with a chosen
category.
SHAPES
Materials: Song about shapes, Shape book, Shape blocks.
Introduction: Teacher will read “Shape” book.
Procedure:
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The teacher will name each shape and show a picture of
the shape while having the students name the shapes aloud.
Teacher will pass out shape blocks to the students
The students will sort the blocks by shape.
End: The teacher along with the students will sing a shape
song as well as asking open ended questions long the
way.
GROUPING ROCKS
Materials: Different sizes of rocks, sheet of paper with
categories such as small, medium and large.
 Procedures:
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The children will sort the rocks on the paper according to the
correct size.
 After the children can discuss what differences they found.
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SORTING WITH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
Materials : Variety of fruit and vegetables, large bowl
and Plates
 Procedures:
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Mix the fruit and vegetables in the bowl.
 Have children separate them into two categories (fruit and
vegetables) on the plate.
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SORTING BY COLOR
Materials: Color bears, Color cups
 Procedure:
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Children will receive a handful of colorful bears.
 Children will separate the bears by color (blue, green, red,
purple and yellow)
End: Ask the children what colors did they learn and ask what
they where doing.
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MODIFICATIONS
Teacher will place children in small groups based on
their learning style and capabilities.
 If the children have trouble separating the objects the
teacher could assist them.
 If possible teacher may translate in home language.
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ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING
What color are the bears ?
 How many Bears do you have ?
 What shapes do you see?
 How many sides does the shape have?
 Which rock is heavier ?
 What sizes are the rocks?
 What are some different ways to separate the vegetables
and fruits?
 How many fruits/vegetable do you see?
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FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY
1.
2.
The children will put different types of rocks in a tub
with water to see which rock will either float or sink.
Apple letter sorting. The children will separate the
lower case letters from the uppercase letters.
WHAT EACH MEMBER DID:
Yesika worked on the shape activity and typed part of the
power point.
Nancy worked on the rocks activity and follow up
questions.
Margarita worked on one of the follow up activities and
helped with ideas.
Oralia worked on the second follow up activity and helped
with ideas.
Courtney worked on the activity about sorting by colors
with bears and helped with the ideas.
Veronica worked on sorting fruits and vegetables having
the children determine what is a fruit and what is a
vegetable and helped with the ideas.