Zu Yan is sorting balls according to colours. Ball is given one by one to him and he is able to place the ball into the correct basket immediately. Then, I challenge him by giving two different colours to him at the same time. Zu Yan pauses before placing the ball into the basket and sometime he place ball into the basket of colour of another that given to him at the sametime.
This is not a plan sensorial activity for him. I was tidying up the store room and he came along wanted to play with the bag of balls. Instead of letting him throw the balls around the room I have pull out spare basket to do sorting according to colours.
As this is the first time to do this activity, I started by placing a few ball of the same colour in each basket, he knows immediately that he has to place the balls according to the colour in the basket.
Mistake make by me, I should not pointed out the pink ball that Zu Yan place into the blue basket. I should wait and observe his reaction if he could self correct.
To further implement this activity. The basket should change to same size and same color for all four basket but not the color of the ball or the same colour to the balls. That will bring the child's concentration to sorting colours without confusion from others elements.
We did not repeat the activity. Zu Yan has carry on working with ball by arranging the basket from biggest to smallest and push them around like a choo choo train.
