Pick Up Time Meets the Common Core

Look at the pictures above.  What do you see?  Kids picking up their play area comes to mind, doesn't it?  These kids are learning all the time.  They learn at the blue rug through direct instruction, and then they learn through their play.  Never mind the language and science standards that were covered before pick up time.  Instead let's look at the pick up time.  As the children were picking up they were considering where the materials needed to go.  They sorted their tools so that tomorrow it would be easy to use them.  That action supports the Common Core Math Standard  K.Md.3 "Classify objects into given categories..."

Stay tuned for more great work in kindergarten!