After reading the story discuss the variety of ways the boy in the story sorted his grandmother's buttons. Show children a tin or box of buttons that have been collected. Divide the class into groups. Give each group a collection of buttons. Ask each group to work together to sort the buttons. Give each group time to share how they sorted their collection of buttons. Place the book and the buttons in a center for later use by the children.
Read the book. Model how to sort jelly beans by color. Give each child a cup or bag of jelly beans to sort by color. Children may complete a jelly bean color graph. Encourage children to share their graph with others.
I Spy - A Book of Picture Riddles by Jean Marzollo As you read the book to the children focus on the attributes by using describing words , such as color words, shape words, or size words, to ask questions about the pictures. Help children see that your words are clues to what object on the page you may be describing. After reading the book turn to a page and ask a child to use describing words to tell about one object in the picture. The child may need to add a describing word, one at a time, until the class guesses what the child is looking at in the picture.
Math Counts: Sorting by Henry Pluckrose Read the book aloud to the children. Reread the book asking children to share how various items in the book have been sorted. Chart the attributes that have been used to sort the items.
Read the book aloud to the children. Discuss how Harriet sorted her candy. If needed reread the book. Have children work in small groups to sort items around the classroom. Once they have sorted the items the groups may share their ways of sorting or ask other groups to tell how they think the sorting was done.
How Many Snails? A Counting Book by Paul Giganti Jr. Read the book aloud. Reread the book asking children to note the things the child wonders and how he/she sorts those items. As a class create a Venn diagram to show how some items (buttons) may be sorted.
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