Kristen Naylor

Lesson Plan
Lining Up and Categorizing
Small-Group Time Planning Form
Originating
Based on observation of children sorting and categorizing toy animals.
Idea
Materials

Items from around the room at the children's desire.

Curriculum
KDIs: 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 12, 13, 32, 33, 3, 35, 36, 38, 39, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50
Content
Beginning
Opening
Statement
Middle

I saw you were lining up the animals, I thought today we could try lining up other items
and comparing them.

Earlier
Able to think about how
What will
things will compare before
children do?
comparing.
Strategies:
How will you
Ask the children what other
scaffold their
ways could items be
learning?
compared?

Middle
Later
Able to line up the items and
Able to pick out items and
see how they compare and
line them up.
adjust.
Strategies:
Strategies:
Ask questions such as
Ask questions such as
"Where do you think it will
"Which one is taller?"
go?" before it's lined up.

End
warning and Let's line up just 5 more items before we put them away and move into the next activity.
transition to When moving into the next activity: Have the children line themselves up by the same
next part of category as the toys were.
routine
Follow-up
Ideas

Use more lining up techniques. By height, hair color, shirt color, shoe color or type.