Patterns

Students rotated through pattern stations this week, to help solidify their understanding of creating, extending and labelling patterns. 

There were action patterns, which activated kinesthetic learning. They had to stomp, tap, clap, snap or slap to create their own rhythmic patterns and then transfer them on paper. 

Another station involved extending a small square pattern that had been cut from a piece of wrapping paper by colouring around it in the same fashion. 

Bingo dotters were a fun way to stamp colourful patterns. Labelling patterns with letters finished the task at this station. Some students were creative and challenged themselves to come up with less predictable patterns (ABBCC vs AB). 

The necklace station was popular. Students had to string cut up pieces of colourful drinking straws onto twine necklaces and draw and label their pattern. 

Pattern blocks were used to create patterns on strips of black paper before paper pattern blocks were glued down and labeled with letter coding. 

There was a lot of constructing and exploring at the pattern table this week. Not all explorations involved patterns per se, but they were creative nonetheless.