Common Core Math · Kindergarten
Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students sort picture cards of animals into 'lives in water' and 'lives on land' piles, then count each pile and say which has more. Sorting water-use pictures into 'inside the house' and 'outside the house' extends the same skill to a topic students will revisit in every later grade.
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Kindergarten Lesson plan
Over ten school days kindergartners paint one sky square a day using a shared color and mark code, then sort the squares to find a pattern in the rainy and cloudy days.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A kindergarten lesson across four short sittings where the class checks the grass on three mornings, charts which ones had dew, and finds where the dew goes.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 35-minute kindergarten careers lesson turning the classroom into four rooms of a water plant, with a prop station and a worker-to-room matching page.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 30-minute kindergarten lesson on sink safety: naming the cold and warm taps, testing water with the back of one hand, and sorting eight sink jobs.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 35-minute kindergarten lesson tracing hallway fountain water from the town tank to the spout, then sorting drink cards and stating one opinion with a reason.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 35-minute kindergarten lesson where children sort near-water and far-from-water places on a map page, count each group, and tell why towns grow by creeks.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students read clues in three jars of brook water, sort what floats in one of them, and name one way to keep the brook clean.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students sort six morning picture cards from a fictional school weather chart into cold and warm piles, count each pile, and compare them.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten art worksheet where children color an eight-stripe pattern on a water tower tank, sort the stripes by color, and count each group.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten careers worksheet where students pack a water crew's gear bag by sorting seven read-aloud items, then count the gear and draw one piece.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A read-aloud kindergarten worksheet where students sort five fence materials into ones that stop mud and ones that let it pass, then draw a fence beside a creek.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students sort pond pictures into animals and trash, count and compare each group, and solve a subtraction story about picking up litter.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students sort pictures of hard and soft ground into two groups, count each group, and compare which group has more pictures.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet set at a fictional school whose playground floods after rain, where students sort surfaces and count which ones soak up water.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A 45-minute kindergarten art rotation where children print round drain covers with tube ends, sort ten picture cards into two icon boxes, and draw the fish symbol.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A 30-minute kindergarten activity in which small groups walk the school checking taps and fountains for drips, sort them into two piles, and report to the custodian.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A 30-minute kindergarten matching activity where partners pair ten shops on a made-up street with the water job each one depends on, then build a class paper street.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A kindergarten art activity where students string a four-color bead necklace that sequences the stages of the water cycle, counting and sorting beads by color.
Kindergarten Graphic organizer
A kindergarten sorting organizer for the art room sink: students place eight picture cards in the sink or bin column, count each column, and name the larger group.
Kindergarten Graphic organizer
A three-column kindergarten organizer sorting twelve everyday water pictures into water we drink, water we wash with, and water we stay out of, with a filled exemplar.