Grown-up sheet · Sorting Island · Mid-year big game
This big game is special. It has 6 challenges from Sorting Island and 2 challenges from each earlier island (patterns, sizes, and numbers). It helps you see what stuck from the whole first half of the year.
How to use it
- Watch the video together with your child. Don't give them the answer. If they stay quiet, wait for Pipo to say it.
- For each challenge, mark just one box:
- ✓ if they answered on their own, before the circle emptied.
- ½ if they answered late or with help.
- ✗ if they didn't answer or got it wrong.
- Pause the video to write things down if you need to.
- At the end, look at the "What to review?" table.
If you can, ask "Why?" after the sorting challenges. A child who says "because it's red" or "because it's a star" understands the rule, even if they pointed to the wrong one.
Challenges
- Groups
- 1 Model: blue heart · Choices: blue star, blue heart, red heart · Which one is the same?
Answer
the 2nd - 2 Group: red circle, heart, and square · Choices: blue triangle, red star, yellow circle · Which one belongs?
Answer
the 2nd (by color) - 3 Group: blue, yellow, and green stars · Choices: red star, red heart, blue circle · Which one belongs?
Answer
the 1st (by shape) - 4 green square, green, yellow, green · Which one doesn't belong?
Answer
the 3rd (color) - 5 red heart, red, red, red circle · Which one doesn't belong?
Answer
the 4th (shape) - 6 The yellow ones: star, circle, blue heart, square · Which one is wrong?
Answer
the 3rd (should be yellow) - 🤸 Movement break
- Patterns (Island 1)
- 7 red, blue, red, blue, ?
Answer
red - 8 star, star, heart, star, star, ?
Answer
heart - Sizes (Island 2)
- 9 big square, medium, small · Which one is medium?
Answer
the 2nd - 10 tall tree, short tree · Which one is the shortest?
Answer
the 2nd - Numbers (Island 3)
- 11 4 hearts · How many are there?
Answer
four - 12 2 dots, 5 dots · Where are there more?
Answer
the 2nd (5)
What to review?
Rule: a block is mastered if the child got most of its challenges with ✓ and none with ✗.
| · | Groups by color and by shape 2–3 | Stop 3: "Play more" (M4-S3-J2), which mixes both rules |
|---|---|---|
| · | The one that doesn't belong 4–5 | Stop 4: "Play" (M4-S4-J1) |
| · | Patterns 7–8 | Island 1: "Island mix" (M1-S5-M) |
| · | Sizes 9–10 | Island 2: "Island mix" (M2-S5-M) |
| · | Numbers 11–12 | Island 3: "Island mix" (M3-S5-M) |
What to do next:
- Everything mastered: on to Island 5 ("Careful Counting").
- One block not mastered: rewatch those videos for 2 or 3 days while the next island begins.
- Two or more blocks not mastered: it's worth spending a week reviewing with the "Island mix" videos for the blocks that were missed.
- Numbers not mastered: don't worry too much. Island 5 starts counting over from the beginning, more slowly.
Common mistake at this age: switching rules halfway through. They start grouping by color and suddenly add a piece because it's "also a star." At home, before sorting, decide on the rule together out loud: "Today we're sorting by color only."