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Sorting Shapes The Five Senses Recycling Bins

Small Group Purpose and intent/Learning Focus: Purpose and intent/Learning Focus: Purpose and intent/Learning Focus:
Time Children will explore shapes by categorizing Children explore their five senses and what Children explore what it is like to recycle
them by similar shape or by color. they can do with them. products based on what they are made of.

Nichole Riggle

Learning Outcomes: Learning Outcomes: Learning Outcomes:

Children will be able to sort a collection of Children will be able to sort actions by what Children will be able to sort paper, cans, and
shapes by their shape or their color. sense they use. plastic pieces into appropriate bins.

Experience Description: Experience Description:

The children can match the colored shapes Experience Description: Children can sort objects by whether they go
with their matching container OR the The child will choose an action and determine in the paper, plastic, or can into the labeled
children can match the cards according to what sense they use it for by sorting it into containers.
color. one of five containers appropriately labeled.

Materials: Materials:
Materials: Five categories for the senses (smell, Three containers labeled plastic,
5 containers labeled with a picture of; touch, sight, hear, taste) paper, cans
circle, square, rectangle, triangle, Collection of pictures for things that Assortments of bottles, papers, and
pentagon, heart require one of the five senses unlabeled cans
Set of shape cards (6 each, 6 Appropriately labeled containers
different colors) Specific developmental concepts or
Specific developmental concepts or skills to assess:
skills to assess: Social Studies: Social Concepts- appreciating
Specific developmental concepts or Science: Life Science, Physical Science ecology
skills to assess: classifying Math: Classification- sorting
Math: Geometry-Shapes / Classification Math: Classification - sorting
Sorting
Art: Shapes, Color