Sorting by Colour

NCERT anchor: NCERT Looking Around Class 1 — Theme: Colours (grouping and sorting)

• Sorting means putting similar things together.
• We can group objects by their colour.
• Colour is not the same as material — two red things can be made of different materials.

1. What is sorting

Level 1 (Verbal): Putting a red ball, red apple, and red block together because they are all red.

Visual: Three red objects grouped in a circle.

2. Colour is not material

Verbal: A red car (plastic) and a red apple (fruit) are the same colour but different material.

3. Practice sorting

Sort a box of toys or crayons into colour piles — red pile, blue pile, yellow pile.

Sorting building blocks by colour

Step 1 — Tip out a box of coloured blocks.
Step 2 — Make a red pile, a blue pile, a yellow pile.
Step 3 — Place each block into the matching colour pile.
Step 4 — Count how many blocks are in each pile.
Answer: blocks grouped into red, blue, and yellow piles.

• What does sorting mean?
• Are a red ball and a red apple in the same colour group?
• Name two things in your room that are the same colour.
• Stretch: Why might sorting by colour sometimes be tricky?

Revision tip: Sort your crayon box by colour before putting it away.

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