#stuffElliedoes

They asked to do math so after some workbook time I pulled out the buttons and told them to sort them however they wanted, but I wanted to hear what they were doing. After a few minutes Ellie walks over with a cup full of buttons of all different sizes, shapes and colors.

Ellie: "Look, I sorted!"

Me: "Hmm, how did you sort them dear? I see all shapes and sizes in there."

Ellie: "No, I'm doing that next. I sorted all the colors this time."

And sure enough - she'd pulled out every color and left the blacks and the whites neatly in two different piles.