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Series: Book Ideas
At-Home Activity Cards: Sets and Sorting
March 22, 2020
These printable activity cards in both English and Spanish invite home explorations with sets and sorting using the books and activities related to them. The books can encourage conversations about attributes while also inspiring questions about what is happening from page to page.
- Topic: Sets
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags A Pair of Socks, Cynthia Weill, Emily Jenkins, Exactly the Opposite, Five Creatures, Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue?, Opuestos/Opposites, Stuart J Murphy, Tana Hoban
Series: Book Ideas December 11, 2019
5 Kids’ Books that Involve Sets and Sorting
Children look for ways to organize and make sense of their world through play at school and home, as well as at clean-up time. Sorting items into groups by specific attributes gives children the opportunity to define sets according to a rule of what does and does not belong together.
- Topic: Sets
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags A Pair of Socks, Cynthia Weill, Emily Jenkins, Exactly the Opposite, Family Math, Five Creatures, Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue?, Lois Ehlert, Opuestos/Opposites, Stuart J Murphy, Tana Hoban
Series: Book Ideas June 13, 2017
Matching and Concepts of Same and Different… with Socks!
Does a polka-dotted sock match a striped sock? In the book A Pair of Socks young children will learn about an important early skill: matching.
- Topic: Sets
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags A Pair of Socks, Animals, Lois Ehlert, Stuart J Murphy
Series: Book Ideas February 22, 2013
All Sorts of Mitten Math
Olivia Trevino’s preschool class at Marsh Elementary School took advantage of all the winter weather to explore picture books about mittens. The Mitten by Jim Aylesworth and The Mitten by Alvin Tresselt are two delightful versions of the Scandinavian folk tale about a group of animals that try to squeeze into a boy’s lost mitten.
- Topic: Data Analysis, Pattern
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K
- Tags Alvin Tresselt, Animals, Books, Candace Christiansen, Jim Aylesworth, Kristine O'Connell George, Missing Mittens, One Mitten, Seasonal, Stuart J Murphy, The Mitten, The Mitten Tree
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