Digital Math for Kindergarten | Sorting Activities | Google Slides™

Digital Math for Kindergarten | Sorting Activities | Google Slides™

Looking for interactive kindergarten sorting activities you can use for digital math centers, whole-group lessons, or distance learning?

This Google Slides™ sorting resource gives your students hands-on drag-and-drop practice sorting objects using a variety of attributes including colour, size, shape, letters, numbers, and real-world categories.

Students learn to identify sorting rules, explain their thinking, and even create their own sorting categories.

 

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✔ Aligned with the Ontario Kindergarten Math Curriculum
✔ No updates needed — sorting expectations remain the same from 2016 to 2026

 

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Perfect for:

✔ Whole-group teaching on SMARTBoard
✔ Digital math centers
✔ Google Classroom assignments
✔ Distance learning
✔ Hybrid classrooms

 

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What’s Included:

 

⭐ Lesson Slides: Let’s Learn About Sorting! (Slides 1–7)

Introduce and teach:

• What is sorting?
• What is a sorting rule?
• Sorting by colour
• Sorting by shape
• Sorting by size
• Sorting by texture
• Sorting by movement (air, land, water)

Includes interactive slides where students determine the sorting rule.
Move the yellow box to reveal the answer!

👆 Use these slides for direct instruction before independent/group practice.

 

⭐ Sort by Colour (Slides 9–10)

Students click and drag counting bears to sort by colour.

 

⭐ Sort by Size (Slides 11–14)

Students sort:

• Buttons by size
• Counting bears by size

Includes:

• Small / Big
• Small / Medium / Big

 

⭐ Sort by Shape (Slides 15–18)

Students sort shapes using digital manipulatives to reinforce shape vocabulary and classification skills.

 

⭐ Sorting Letters (Slides 19–29)

Students sort letters by:

• Has holes / No holes
• Straight lines / Curved lines / Both
• Uppercase / Lowercase

Builds visual discrimination and letter feature awareness.

 

⭐ Sorting Letters & Numbers (Slide 30)

Students sort symbols into:

• Letters
• Numbers

 

⭐ Customizable Extra Tiles (Slide 31)

Includes extra number and sight word tiles so you can:

• Delete tiles you don’t want
• Copy and paste new ones
• Customize slides to meet your students’ needs

 

⭐ Sorting Letters & Words

• Slide 32 – T-Chart format
• Slide 33 – Venn Diagram format

Students sort symbols into:

• Letters
• Words

 

⭐ Living & Non-Living (Slide 34)

Students sort real-world images into:

• Living
• Non-Living

Supports science connections and classification skills.

 

⭐ Create Your Own Sorting Rule

• Slide 35 – Sort into 2 groups and type the sorting rule
• Slide 36 – Sort into 3 groups and type the sorting rule

Students determine their own sorting rule and explain their thinking using math language.

 

⭐ American & Canadian Spelling Included (Slides 37–40)

Includes both spelling options: Colour / Color
Simply delete the version you don’t need.

 

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Why Teachers Love This Resource

✔ No prep — just assign or project
✔ Engaging drag-and-drop format
✔ Teaches true understanding of sorting rules
✔ Encourages math talk and reasoning
✔ Includes customizable slides
✔ Works for in-person OR digital classrooms
✔ Ontario-aligned

 

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Tech Tips:

• Use in EDIT mode (not Present mode) so movable pieces work.
• If assigning in Google Classroom, students using iPads/tablets must have the Google Slides app installed to manipulate pieces.
• You may also download as a PowerPoint file to use on a SMARTBoard.

 

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Try It for Free!

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Grab my FREE Digital Math for Kindergarten | Tally Marks | Google Slides™ resource and try it out before you buy.

 

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If you love this resource, be sure to check out my other Digital Math for Kindergarten activities or my complete, year-long digital math program here💛