sorting activity directions

Thanksgiving food sorting activity

Cut out the attached pictures and try the activities that I have checked below:

VERBAL EXPRESSION AND CATEGORIZATION ACTIVITIES:

Have your child name the pictures that you show him/her.

 

Ask your child, “what do you do with a ____”

Encourage your child to say longer sentences.  For example,if they say, “eat”, say “yes, we eat turkey. Can you say, I eat turkey.”

 

Ask your child, “where can you find a ___”

Encourage your child to say longer sentences.  For example,if they say, “closet”, say “yes, your pants are in the closet. Can you say, in the closet.”

 

Sort the pictures into 3 separate piles. Use category words, say “let’s put all the foods in this pile, all the furniture in this pile and all the clothes in this pile.  After they are sorted ask your child, “what is the name of this group”?

 

Place 4 pictures in front of your child (3 from one group and one that is not a member of the group).  Ask, “which one does not belong”? Why?

 

Name another member of the group (can you think of another food we might eat for Thanksgiving?)

 

Ask how two pictures are similar (how are pants and shirt alike?  (they are both types of clothing)

 

Ask how two pictures are different (how are green beans and pants different?)

 

 

 

COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES:

Ask your child yes/no questions about the picture.  Is this                a turkey?  Do we eat turkey?  Do you wear a turkey on your head?

 

Place 4 pictures in front of your child and ask him/her to point to the one you name.

 

Place 4 pictures in front of your child and ask him/her to point to 2 in a row (point to the pants and the turkey)

 

Place 4 pictures in front of your child and ask him/her to point to the one you describe (point to the food that is green)

 

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