Animal Sort

I gave my grade one class a page full of animal pictures to cut out and sort into two groups. They could chose whatever groups they wanted to sort the animals into but they had to be able to explain how they sorted it. I came to one boy's desk. His titles were Flying and Not Flying. I looked over his work and saw he had the snail, the hamster, the snake, and the cow under the heading of Not Flying. He had the bird, the ladybug, the butterfly, and the deer under the heading of Flying. "You put the deer in the wrong category," I explained. "It should be in under the Not Flying heading." The boy looked up at me and rolled his eyes. "Santa's deer fly," he patiently explained to me. I hastily wrote Reindeer next to the picture and moved on. Sometimes adults just don't get it!