Kid’s Corner
{Week 4: Size/Sort }
Theme: Snow Days Color: White
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Daily Opener:
- Prayer {Say a prayer with your child}
- Calendar {Click on the link to learn how to use the calendar}.
- ABC / 123 Song {Sing the ABC’s with your child & sing numbers 1-10 with your child}.
Activity: Likes and Differences {Lesson by Annie}
Description: Children will learn how to sort different objects by their colors, characteristics, and sizes.
Materials:
- 3 objects all the same color.
- 3 objects all the same kind.
- 3 objects all the same size.
- 3 object that will be opposite from your previous objects.
- Word Strips made out of computer paper.
- Sharpe or pen
Directions:
1. Place all four objects (same color) and one different on the table in front of the child.
- Write descriptive words on the word strips. {For example, the colors they see may be RED and BLACK, so you would write RED on one word strip and BLACK on another}.
- Say and spell the words with your child. Have them trace each letter with their finger.
- With all four objects on the table, have your child pick out the object that is different.
{If a child picks out an object that is not the intended object to be different, have them explain to you why they picked it out? If they have a good reason, then tell them they are correct. Sometimes preschoolers will point out speific details}
- Repeat steps 1 through 4, with new objects found in your home. Use objects, so that child will sort by their colors, characteristics, and sizes.
- Discuss the three vocabulary words in detail: COLOR, CHARACTERISTIC, and SIZE. What does each of these words mean? Give examples of each vocabulary word?
- Have your child reflect on what they had learned in today’s lesson.
Learning Opportunity:
1. Your child will learn the differences between the vocabulary words: Colors, Characteristics, and Sizes.
2. Your child will see and spell words involving the lesson.
3. Your child will become familiar with sorting.
4. Your child will learn to discuss what he/she did today in the activity.
Read Aloud:
Sorting {By George Ansell}
Red ones go with red
Mrs Smith gets cross if we put
Blue ones in instead.
*Stallone Tested and Approved: {We are so lucky to have Stallone, Annie’s son, test out all of our lessons that we create for you. We want the lessons to be enjoyable for children, so after each lesson we will post how Stallone did with the lesson in italics under the title, Stallone Tested and Approved}:
Yellow goes with yellow
Grey belongs with grey -
When she cooks her dinner
Does she do it the same way?
Bananas do taste very nice
Topped off with yellow custard,
But what of yellow lemons with
A blob of yellow mustard?
And what about red strawberries?
They're wonderful, of course,
But do you think she covers them
With red tomato sauce?
Sorting things by colour
Seems to me a dreadful waste.
Life would be much sweeter
If we sorted things by taste.
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Daily Craft: Activity Jar {Click on the link to learn about using the activity jar}
Congratulations: You and your child finished the lesson for the day! What did you think about the lesson today, and what did your child learn? We’d love to hear your thoughts!
Stallone was definitely a little preoccupied today while doing the lesson. He is getting over a cold, and the fact that today's lesson involved "cars" he wanted to hold them and run them off the dining room table rather than participate in the lesson. Nevertheless, we got through it, there is nothing like a little "bribery" that won't fix a problem, in this case it was a pack of "fruit snacks" that got us through the lesson successfully. :) I loved this lesson, for it involved little to none new materials, just a few of your child's toys.
Materials used for the "same color" sorting
Materials used for the "same kind" sorting
Materials used for the "same size" sorting
All materials needed
Stallone wanted to hold all the cars at first..his favorite!
Lining them back up
Tracing over the word "Green" from the "same color" activity
Saying the letters as he traced over them
Really got into it, it does not always run this smooth with my 2 year old :)
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