28th Jan 2010
Early Math Skills – Patterns
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From the early mathematical concepts, learn about the patterns was my favorite. "Look, there is a pattern," was a common phrase in our family. Patterns are everywhere. In the supermarket history in the hardware store, library, museum, you find patterns found in books, on the floor, on the walls.
Books about Patterns
Pattern Bugs by Trudy Harris
This story has a beautiful graphics and poetry. The errors that frame around the sides, and eventhe words of poetry to follow patterns.
Pattern Fish by Trudy Harris
As her book about bugs, there are visual and verbal patterns in this book.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
This book is another word with rhythmic patterns.
Fun with patterns
Activity # 1
Assign patterns everywhere. Walking a few steps into a brick museum, I noticedStones were set according to a certain pattern, and if we are after landing, changed the pattern. I pointed out to Makani & Rowena, and she had become addicted, looking for patterns everywhere. "Look, Mom, it's a pattern," she said excitedly. You can see patterns in almost everything:
Wallpaper
Clothing
Food labels
Book Covers
Quilts
Floor Tiles
Activity # 2
Take a walk through nature. Note the patterns in nature(ie leaves, cobwebs, flowers, animal tracks). You can even build a kind of diary, documenting see the patterns.
Activity # 3
Look for patterns of words in books, poems and songs. For example, says the Big Bad Wolf: "I'll Huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down, or is it the reaction of the pigs," Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin. "
Activity # 4
Decorate for holidays and birthdays with paperChains streamers. Alternating between red and green for a simple pattern, or use pink, red and white for a more complex Valentine decorations. Or hang garlands of different colors in a pattern such as a window decoration for a birthday … or simply because it was a beautiful day.
Activity # 5
Rhythm pattern (clap, stomp, clap, stomp), and patterns of activity (standing, sitting, jumping, standing, sitting, jumping) games can be so easyor as complex as you want it. To turn the children over who builds the pattern.
Activity # 6
Colorful beads, string them on yarn to make necklaces. Meanwhile, the children know what kind of a pattern, so let them set up their own design.
Activity # 7
Paint a number of different forms in different colors in a piece of cardboard. Tell a story about your image patterns in words. Makani painted a series ofPattern, they call traces of animals, and they drew a storm, the mischief with the whole pattern.
Activity # 8
Build towers with colorful patterns of the neighboring blocks in different colors.
Activity # 9
Weave potholders on a loom. Both the color and weaving movements to strengthen the design concept.
Activity # 10
Play with your food! M & M's line-up in colorful patterns.
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