1-2-3 Come Make A Pattern With Me!

Learning how to make, identify and extend a pattern are report card standards for our Y5’s.

They had fun doing that with all sorts of colorful manipulatives.  I also used a variety of food during snack time.

They also glued mini-die cuts to a 1/2 sheet of construction paper each month, making a line pattern in their pattern booklet.

When we were out and about during field trips or for a fall or spring walk, I’d have them try and find patterns in nature as well.

Because I needed a “hard copy” to prove my students passed that assessment, I also needed to have some paper examples of them making and extending patterns, so I designed patterning skill sheets in every unit.

I just completed some anchor charts for you to laminate.  You can use these as ways to whole group explain the concept.

Have students come up to the board and complete and identify the pattern.

Make this part of your daily calendar time, or plug in before or after you read a story. It only takes a minute.

You can also run off copies for your students as a worksheet, or use as an assessment when you are ready to evaluate their progress.

Because I used all of the colors and shapes, you can also take a moment to review those as well.

Click on the link to view/download the Pattern Anchor Chart Posters.

Thanks for visiting today.  I hope you can stop by tomorrow for more back to school activities.

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“If we did all of the things we are capable of doing, we would truly astound ourselves!” –Thomas Edison

Nature Pattern Strips

Before the snow starts to fly and everything is gone with the wind or buried, get some exercise and fresh air with your class or send a note home to parents to take a nature walk with their child.

While out and about have students spy patterns on their journey, i.e., leaf-twig-leaf, mum-tree-mum etc.

Arm each child with a large baggie and have them collect 3 of a kind of two different things, so they can return and make an ABABAB nature pattern.

I glued mine to 5 ½ x 12 strips of fall-colored scrapbook paper that was cardstock stiff.  You could also cut strips of colored tag board, use bulletin board border or sentence strips.

Using tacky glue, students arrange their treasures in a line in an AB pattern.  Let dry over night and then collage on a bulletin board.

This activity is lots of fun for them, so be prepared for your students to want to do more than one.

For cut and glue pattern activities take a look at my Pattern Booklet.