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Sorting Objects to a Type

By the end of this small step, children will be able to sort objects into groups based on common attributes, such as color, shape, and size. They will be able to identify and describe similarities and differences between objects.

Target Age:

Lesson Overview

By the end of this unit, children will be able to:

  1. sort objects into groups based on common attributes, such as color, shape, and size.
  2. identify and describe similarities and differences between objects.

Curriculum Alignment:

  • Development Matters − 3 and 4-year-olds – Talk about and identify the patterns around them.
  • Birth to 5 Matters − Range 5 – Explores and adds to simple linear patterns of two or three repeating items.

Sorting Objects to a Type

Ages 3-5

By the end of this small step, children will be able to sort objects into groups based on common attributes, such as color, shape, and size. They will be able to identify and describe similarities and differences between objects.
Description

By the end of this unit, children will be able to:

  1. sort objects into groups based on common attributes, such as color, shape, and size.
  2. identify and describe similarities and differences between objects.
  • Development Matters − 3 and 4-year-olds – Talk about and identify the patterns around them.
  • Birth to 5 Matters − Range 5 – Explores and adds to simple linear patterns of two or three repeating items.
Last updated on: February 20, 2026

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