- basket filled with stuffed animals (some duplicates)
- Knuffle Bunny Too (book)
- different
- same
MA Standards:
Language/L.PK.MA.5.a: Demonstrate understanding of concepts by sorting common objects into categories (e.g., sort objects by color, shape, or texture).
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences: Matter and Its Interactions: Structure and Properties of Matter: PS1.A: Describe, compare, sort and classify objects based on observable physical characteristics, uses, and whether it is manufactured as part of their classroom play and investigations of the natural and human-made world.
Head Start Outcomes:
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 4: Engage in play experiences that involve naming and sorting common words into various classifications using general and specific language.
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 8: Sort, categorize, or classify objects by more than one attribute.
Same or Different?
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Reread the pages in Knuffle Bunny Too where Trixie realizes that her bunny is not “one-of-a-kind.” Explain that Sonja and Trixie both have the same bunny.
Show children the basket of stuffed animals. Ask, Which of these stuffed animals are the same? Which animals are different? As children make their choices, have them place the animals side by side so they can point out the similarities and differences.
Ask, What do you notice that is the same about these animals? What is different? Guide children to use words that describe features, color, size, and texture.