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Sorting Waste Earth Day Preschool Math Montessori Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

Apr 19, 2021 ·

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Make studying fun for children by giving them activities that are interesting and exciting. Our sorting waste activity below will teach kids Math and is also an awesome Earth Day preschool activity.

Sorting Waste Earth Day Preschool Math Montessori Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

Children are born with a great capacity to learn new things very quickly. However, although this occurs naturally in them due to the brain development in children, it is essential not to neglect mathematical processes.

Mathematics holds a fundamental place in people's lives; even children, in an unconscious way, include them in most of the activities they carry out in their daily lives.

However, children must have the ability to understand and know the world around them, and this implies that more conscious mathematical processes take place.

It is here where stimulation plays a fundamental role in developing mathematical, logical thinking in children.

Children are indeed born with different abilities, and over time, they strengthen them. However, getting mathematical concepts requires a stimulation that favors learning.

This stimulation must be planned that they can learn through experimentation concretely and naturally. That requires that the activities carried out fill specific characteristics that catch children's attention to identify and perceive each of their qualities using their senses.

Children should not feel forced to do the activities. You should understand that each child develops his/her abilities at different times.

To get started, you can involve mathematical concepts in activities that are completed daily, such as going to the supermarket, cooking, sorting waste, organizing toys, setting the table, organizing clothes by colors, and so.

In short, there are a large number of activities that will allow children to develop their logical-mathematical thinking. With the following Earth Day preschool activity, children will learn about the importance of recycling and sorting waste.

Sorting waste Earth Day preschool activity with free printable worksheets

THEME: EARTH DAY PRESCHOOL ACTIVITY

HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?

Topic: Mathematics

Age: 4-6-year-old children

Goal: Through this Earth Day preschool activity, children will strengthen their mathematical thinking through a waste sorting activity.

Difficulty level: Advanced. This Earth Day preschool activity is designed for children to do independently with adult surveillance.

Skills:

  • Eye-hand coordination
  • Precision in hand and finger movements
  • Color identification
  • Classifying
  • Following instructions
  • Logical thinking
  • Focus
  • Memory
  • Following patterns
  • Environmental awareness
  • Autonomy

MATERIALS

Materials Sorting Waste Activity. Earth Day preschool activity
  • A container
  • Tweezers
  • Six cardboard tubes (like those used in the toilet paper), each labeled
  • Images of different wastes to match the labels (metal, plastic, glass, paper, etc.)
  • A tray

ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

Step 1:

Take the tweezer from the container.

Take the tweezer from the container. Earth Day preschool activity

Step 2:

Use the tweezer to pick up the drawings of different waste items that are on the tray.

Use the tweezer to pick up the drawings of different waste items

Step 3:

Place the waste images within the cardboard tubes as appropriate.

Place the waste images within the cardboard tubes

ACTIVITY RESULT

A mathematical Earth Day preschool activity for sorting waste in different trash cans, using a tweezer

sorting waste in different trash cans

FREE PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS FOR KIDS

After doing Earth Day preschool activities, give kids some extra worksheets to do. Click the link below to download our free printable worksheets.

Free printable Earth day worksheets Reduce, reuse, recycle worksheets

Download the Free Printable Earth Day Worksheets

HOW TO DEVELOP THIS EARTH DAY PRESCHOOL ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD

This Earth Day preschool activity can be done with younger children. To reduce the difficulty level, children can do an activity with materials and not with drawings.

In this way, children will have the possibility of doing the exercise more authentically. They will be able to identify each one of the materials.

It is important to remember that children's mind, at an early age, is not prepared to understand abstract concepts. In this way, children will carry out a math activity appropriate to their development and abilities.

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OVER 6 YEARS OLD

This Earth Day preschool activity can be carried out with older children. To increase the difficulty level, children will have to arrange the waste in their respective bins.

After completing the classification, they must count how many elements each recipient has and write the corresponding number on a paper.

To perform the Earth Day preschool activity, children must already relate quantity to a number. In this way, children will carry out a preschooler activity appropriate to their development and abilities.

VIDEO DESCRIPTION - SORTING WASTE EARTH DAY PRESCHOOL ACTIVITY

In this Earth Day preschool activity video, you will find the step-by-step of the "SORTING WASTE" activity, designed for children 4-6 years old.

Here children will carry out a mathematical activity of waste classification using a tweezer.

This Earth Day preschool activity exercise will allow children to develop eye-hand coordination, precision in hand and finger movements, color identification, classification, following instructions, logical thinking, focus, memory, following patterns, environmental awareness, and autonomy.

Materials needed to carry out the math activity are a container, a tweezer, six cardboard tubes labeled with different trash cans, images of various waste items, and a tray.

Do you like our Earth Day preschooler activity? Make sure to check out our other fun home activities for Earth Day.

  • Check out this awesome Recycled Stars Montessori Recycling Projects for Kids Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)
  • Give kids fun activity to do. Check out this Recycled Colorful Stand Earth Day Activities for Kids Fine Motor Skills Montessori Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)
  • Let kids have fun with the Watering Plants Earth Day Art Projects for Kids with Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)
  • Here's an awesome home activity, Collecting Paper Earth Day Activities for Preschoolers Fine Motor Skills Worksheets (4-6 Year Olds)

Get super cute outfit for your little ones to honor Earth Day, check out this Save Planet Earth Tshirt for Kids.

I'd like to know what you think of our Earth Day preschool activity. Please leave a comment below.

Fun sorting waste Earth Day preschool activity.
Earth Day preschool sorting waste activity for kids

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