Week 5: Colors and Sorting

Sorting is one of the first ways children organize the world. This week your child sorts by color, kind and where things live, and spots the one that does not belong.

What your child is practicing

Reading simple color words
Sorting objects into two groups
Explaining why something is different

This week's worksheets

Printable worksheet with outline pictures of a sun, heart, leaf, raindrop and pumpkin to color by the color word

Early Math
~10 min

Color by Word

Read the color word and color the picture that color.

Printable worksheet with two boxes labeled Fruit and Animals and cut-out pictures to sort

Thinking Skills
~12 min

Sort: Fruit and Animals

Cut out pictures and glue each one into the fruit box or the animal box.

Printable worksheet with two boxes labeled On the water and On land and cut-out pictures to sort

Thinking Skills
~12 min

Sort: Water and Land

Cut out pictures and glue each one in the water box or the land box.

Printable worksheet with rows of pictures where one picture is different from the others

Thinking Skills
~8 min

Which One Does Not Belong?

Look at each row and circle the picture that does not belong.

Try it off paper: Sock sorting

Dump a basket of clean laundry and sort by color, owner or size. Ask "how did you decide?" each time.

Parent tip

Ask for the reason behind every answer. The explanation matters more than the right pile.