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Jennifer Dowling

Pattern lesson plan


Rational: This lesson goes along with standard 4.3.K A1 Patterns -Recognize, describe, extend, and create patterns. This lesson is reinforcing the lessons on patterning that Mrs. Miller has been doing for the past few weeks. This lesson is way to assess and reinforce the concepts of patterns. Patterning is an important concept for children to grasp because it sets them up for learning mathematical patterns later on.

Grade level: Kindergarten Materials needed: Two worksheets and crayons Objective: Students will be able to color the Halloween ghosts, pumpkins, and spiders and/or bats, candy, and witches hats to create their own patterns.

Intro: The introduction of the worksheet will be done as a whole group I will talk to the children about what a pattern is. Using the worksheet I will model how the worksheet should be filled out. I will model how to fill out the worksheet by asking children questions so they come up with the example I use to fill out the worksheet. Who can tell me how I can make a pattern out of colors? If I use these colors is this a pattern? What makes this a pattern? How can a make a new pattern with the same colors?

Body:

Students will get a worksheet with 9 ghosts, 7 pumpkins, and 6 spiders on it and or a worksheet with 7 bats, 8 candy pieces, and 6 witches hats. Students will have to color a pattern for each row of Halloween characters. This worksheet will be done as part of a center in a rotation.

Closure:

Jennifer Dowling After all children have gone through all the centers the children will come back to the carpet. I will ask for volunteers to share their patterns with the class. We will look at and discuss what makes those patterns a pattern.

Other considerations: For this lesson the materials needed are the worksheet and crayons. This lesson was found on a sight called teacherspayteachers. It is a website where teachers can sell their worksheets and lesson ideas to other educators. I did not change any part of the worksheet including the directions. The worksheet and directions seemed age appropriate for Kindergarteners and that is why I decided to change nothing. I did however create a second worksheet that in which I just changed the pictures on the worksheet to give the children a choice as to which worksheet they would like to do. Some questions I can ask during the lesson are: What makes a pattern a pattern? How many different patterns do you think we can make with all these colors? Is it ok that everyones patterns look different? Can everyone be right?

When planning this lesson I thought about how math is taught in Mrs. Millers classroom. Math is always taught and done in centers. This guided me and made me think of a lesson that would have students make pattern but still be easy and fast enough to be able to be done as a center. I needed a lesson that had easy direction and that was easy to follow. With all those in mind I was able to choose the lesson I did. The directions are simple and easy to follow. I believe students will enjoy this activity. For some children they will think the worksheet is an easy task while for others it will be difficult. The theme of the worksheets goes along with the holiday coming up so I think it will get children more motivated and excited about doing it.

Differentiation: Students who struggle with the concept of patterns can be given two different colors to make a pattern with. This will make it easier for them to create a pattern with. If a student has poor fine motor skills and cannot color in the lines the students will only have circle the pictures in a pattern or scribble the best they can over the pictures. For the advanced student who understands patterns and needs a challenge the students can complete the whole worksheet using many colors and making patterns with the small

Jennifer Dowling details in the pictures. For example the ghosts have ties. They can make the ghost red and its tie blue, and then the next ghost blue and its tie red. Assessment: I will look at the children patterns that they made and see if they are true patterns. If the child makes a pattern then they have grasped the concept of patterns. The patterns children can do are as simple as red, blue, red, blue. They can also be intricate like having a blue ghost with a red bow, then a red ghost with a blue bow, and repeat the pattern.

Jennifer Dowling

Jennifer Dowling

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