Sheri-Lynn Skwarchuk receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She is also a board member at Oak Street Nursery School and the Project Director of the ToyBox project.

Sorting items by different properties and comparing them is a skill that you can observe the children learning to use with increasing sophistication, as Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner demonstrate.

Adults “match and sort” every time we do laundry. Children start learning this process during infancy, when they begin to notice which sounds they make bring an adult running to them (sounds that aren ...

Thinking back on Halloween, were you a “dump all your candy into one bowl” child? Or did you enjoy meticulously sorting your treats into a post-Halloween candy store and trading with others? If you ...