Preschool Logical Thinking Concepts

Dylan's Teacher says, "Bring me the book on the left side of the table." Dylan walks to the table, but looks confused. Finally he says, "Tables do not have hands."

• Noting Time Concepts

• Ordering By Attributes

• Seeing Cause & Effect

• Sorting and Classifying Object

• Understanding Spatial Concepts

The preschool program had a magnetic figure set to represent The Three Little Bears. The teacher put the bears on the magnetic board as she read the story. After the story, Sally was matching the beds, chairs, bowls with the correct bear.

• Noting Time Concepts

• Ordering By Attributes

• Understanding Number Concepts

• Sorting and Classifying Object

• Understanding Spatial Concepts

Ryan's mother read Ezra Jack Keat's story the Snowy Day to Ryan. After reading the story, she asked Ryan, "why did Peter's snow melt when he brought it into the house? Ryan said, "Because Peter was naughty; snow belongs outside.

• Noting Time Concepts

• Ordering By Attributes

• Seeing Cause & Effect

• Sorting and Classifying Object

• Understanding Spatial Concepts

Nathan's mother showed her son a photo of his father as a young boy. Although Nathan has seen photos of himself as a toddler and accepted the photo as himself, he adamantly denied that his was a photo of his father. He said, "Daddies are big people."

• Noting Time Concepts

• Ordering By Attributes

• Seeing Cause & Effect

• Sorting and Classifying Object

• Understanding Spatial Concepts

Wyatt enjoyed his first day of Kindergarten. After school, his mother asked, "Is Benjamin in your class?" Wyatt replied, "No, he is next door." Then he paused and corrected himself by saying, "No, that is not right." He closed his eyes and said, " Benjamin is one, two doors down the hall from me."

• Noting Time Concepts

• Understanding Number Concepts

• Seeing Cause & Effect

• Sorting and Classifying Object

• Understanding Spatial Concepts

Samantha was looking at a picture of all types of cats. Her mother asked, "How are the cats all alike."

• Noting Time Concepts

• Understanding Number Concepts

• Seeing Cause & Effect

• Sorting and Classifying Object

• Understanding Spatial Concepts

Brooklyn had answered most of the one-to-one correspondence questions correctly. When the teacher stacked one set of the discs, Brooklyn was very confused and equivalency of the two sets.

• Noting Time Concepts

• Understanding Spatial Concepts

• Seeing Cause & Effect

• Sorting and Classifying Object

• Understanding Number Concepts

Landon has a box with 15 compartments to hold his parquetry blocks (flat blocks of different shapes, sizes, & colors). Although his father showed Landon how to store the blocks, he still mixes up some of the groups.

• Noting Time Concepts

• Understanding Spatial Concepts

• Seeing Cause & Effect

• Sorting and Classifying Object

• Understanding Number Concepts

Kelcey & Keith were getting tired while on a 10-hr car trip to their grandparents' home. From time to time, they would ask, "when will we be there?" Their dad said, "After supper." Kelcey asked, "Can we eat now?"

• Noting Time Concepts

• Understanding Spatial Concepts

• Seeing Cause & Effect

• Sorting and Classifying Object

• Understanding Number Concepts

A preschool teacher was asking, "Which is more: 3 or 5? 8 or 9?" Most of the children could quickly and correctly answer these questions. Then she asked, "Which is more: three balls or three elephants?" The children all chorused, "Three elephants."

• Noting Time Concepts

• Understanding Spatial Concepts

• Seeing Cause & Effect

• Sorting and Classifying Object

• Understanding Number Concepts