Today's Classroom Activities :

Working with Patterns

Pattern Play
Fine Motor Coordination/Math Provide felt shapes and craft sticks. Model putting together a pattern, then pass an empty craft stick to a student to reproduce the pattern. Let each child create a pattern of his or her own and then hand the stick to someone else to copy.

What's My Pattern?
Students will explore patterns on some internet sites, describe the patterns, make virtual patterns, and duplicate them with real unifix cubes. The computer environment provides a structure for success and for reflection on the idea of a repeating unit.

Color Patterns
This lesson will teach your students how to make a pattern of three colors and then repeat the pattern on paper.

Strange Elevators: Creating and Extending Patterns
Students will learn how to recognize a pattern, create a pattern and extend it and finally, observe how patterns can be similar and different.

Exploring Multiplication Patterns
Students will learn to use patterns and property theories as strategies for recalling those facts.

Snake Patterns-s-s-s
Students will use given rules to generate several stages of a pattern and will be able to predict the outcome for any stage.

Zillij Patterns
Students explore the aesthetic and geometric patterns dound in Islamic art. Students will also experiment with construction of Zillij patterns from simple shapes to more complex repeating patterns.