Ten pictured items go to four color-coded bins on this 3-page kindergarten sheet. Page 1 shows PAPER (blue), PLASTIC (yellow), GLASS (green) and METAL (gray) bins, with a newspaper, cardboard box, plastic bottle, yogurt cup, glass jar, glass bottle, soup can, soda can, envelope and plastic milk jug to link by line. Page 2 is a counting table where students write how many items go in each bin. It supports Common Core K.MD.3, and the key gives counts of 3, 3, 2 and 2.
K.MD.3
“Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.”
Page 1 sorts ten items into four bins, and page 2 counts how many went into each.
Five pictures above four bins and five below. Students draw a line from each item to the paper, plastic, glass or metal bin.
A table with the four bin names and the bin colors. Students write a number in the How Many box for each one.
The items for each bin in a list, then the counts: paper 3, plastic 3, glass 2 and metal 2.
Number the pictures
If lines get tangled, have students number each picture and write the number beside its bin. The counts on page 2 then come from the numbers.
Point and count
Students point to each line that ends at a bin and count them before writing the number. Paper and plastic each get three.
Compare with your bins
Bins differ by town. If yours mix plastic, glass and metal, ask students which bins here would stay and which would join.
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