Ant Wrangler's Ranch

Put the Ants to Bed is an activity in JumpStart Math for First Graders designed to teach sorting and pattern recognition skills at a first grade level.

Premise and description
The ants are tired and ready to go to bed. Frankie must help the Wrangler Ant guide the ants to a chamber containing other ants with similar visual characteristics. Ants will continually walk through the tunnels, so the player guides them by opening and closing doors in the tunnel. One round is completed once each chamber contains five ants, and the player earns a bone after three successful rounds.

Digital manual description
These ants are pooped from a long day of work. They always march in order, but Frankie's digging mixed them all up. Can you and Frankie help the Wrangler Ant sort out the situation and get all the ants of the same type into the same sleeping chamber?


 * When an ant enters the ant tunnels, pay attention to its color, body pattern (stripes, dots, or solid), and its hat.
 * Decide which sleeping chamber contains ants with matching characteristics. Then, click on the gates to open and close them in order to guide each ant to the correct chamber.
 * Fill each chamber with five ants to complete one round.
 * When you complete three rounds of ants, you will earn one bone!

SKILLS: Sorting, classifying, recognizing patterns