Exploring Patterns

How might we make patters with shapes, sounds, colours and actions?

We gathered together with a heap of ‘Pattern Blocks’. Patterns Blocks are a collection of shapes in 6 colours. We invited the children to give each coloured block a sound.

The yellow hexagon was going to make the sound ‘cluck, cluck’. The children decided that the red trapezoid could make the sound ‘woof, woof’ and the blue parallelogram would make the sound ‘brrr’.

The children quickly began to extend the pattern, adding blocks and sounds. They could see and hear the patterns. We decided to change the sounds to actions. The children laughed and wiggled and created patterns with enthusiasm.

Next, the children created their own sound patterns using the Pattern Blocks.

When they were happy with their pattern and sounds, they transferred this on to a strip of paper, cutting and gluing the shapes in a pattern.

  • We wonder what creative patterns we can make.
  • We wonder how we might describe and extend patterns using objects and drawings.

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