Sorting Shoes

A good group event which actively involves all the kids—easier on the teacher if kids have good self-help skills in shoes and socks.

Objectives

Children ages 5-6 years can print the capital letter of own name FM III
ages 4 ½-5 years can count to 5 and answer how many (shoes, socks?) Cog. IIIC
and ages 2-3 can match familiar and similar objects Cog. IIIA
All children participating will learn types of shoes.

 
 
 

Materials

String; hard shoe; tennis shoe; sandal (shoes will be supplied by children).

Procedures

1. In a big space, have children sit in a circle. Each child takes off one shoe.

2. Take a hard shoe, tennis shoe, and sandal and put them in the center. Place a string around each shoe to represent "sets".

3. Each child tells what kind of shoe (s)he has. Each child puts own shoe inside the appropriate set.

4. Make a big chart showing kinds of shoes. Count number of shoes in each area while charting.

5. Have each type of shoe represented by a different color. Children can color or write their initials in squares to show what kind of shoes they have.

6. A new game could evolve by having shoes piled in the center of circle and having children take turns taking a shoe and finding the owner.