What Will You Discover When You Dig and Sort?

Materials:

• Sensory bins

• Tweezers or hands

• Rice, beans, shredded paper

• Counters of your preference

• Bowls or sorting trays 

Instructions:

• Hide counters in the sensory bin

• Ask children to find the hidden counters

• Ask them to sort to their liking (by colour, by shape, by characteristic…)

Powerful InterACTions - PK3:

• What Can We Find and Sort?

• What Happens When We Sort by Color, Shape, or Size?

• How Can We Organize What We Find?

• Can You Think of a New Way to Organize Them?

• Which Group Has More? How Do You Know?

Powerful InterACTions - PK4:

• How Can We Sort the Treasures in Our Sensory Bin?

• What Do You Notice About What You Found?

• How Can You Tell Which Ones Belong Together?

• Which Group Has More? How Do You Know?

• What Do You Think Will Happen If We Sort by Size?