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Pre-K
Daily
Lesson
Plans
Extend
the Unit
MATH
Patterns
Week 1: Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Week 2: Create Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Week 3: Extend Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
Math Songs for each theme available on CD.
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Patterns
Patterns
Objective Identify and describe patterns
Materials Content Area Flip Chart, p. 35; Teacher’s
Resource Book, p. 45
Share and Read Play the “Simon
Says” game. Say: Simon says, stand up.
Simon says, sit down. Repeat several times.
Ask: Did we stand up and sit down once, or
did we keep doing it over and over again?
What would we do if we repeated these
actions? Repeat with other actions.
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Content Words Display Content Area Flip Chart,
page 35. Identify the objects. Point out
the pattern on the zebra’s skin. Ask:
What repeats over and over again? Guide
children to verbalize the color pattern
(black, white, black, white) as you point.
Repeat with the other pictures.
Talk About It Cut out the cards on
Teacher’s Resource Book, page 45. Guide
children to sort the cards into groups by squares,
circles, or triangles. Focus on one group and ask:
How are these designs the same? How are they
different? Repeat with the other groups.
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Patterns
Day
3
Objective Identify patterns
Materials Math Songs CD: Track 3; percussion
instruments (optional)
Sing “Everybody Here’s Got
Rhythm” Play “Everybody Here’s Got
Rhythm,” on Math Songs CD: Track 3,
to the tune of “Shortening Bread.” This
song explores four different patterns or
rhythms.
Help children identify the rhythm, and
then clap the response.
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This song can be played using a variety
of percussion instruments: a drum,
shaker, wood block, boom whackers
(tuned percussion tubes), or tone bell.
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After becoming familiar with the song,
children can take turns creating their
own rhythm by clapping or playing an
instrument. The rest of the class must
repeat the rhythm.
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Patterns
Patterns
Objectives Identify and describe patterns
Materials none
Sing “Clap, Snap, and
Stomp!” Teach children an adaptation
of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”. Call the
song “Clap, Snap, and Stomp!” Sing it
to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little
Star.” At the end of the song, provide a
pattern for children to repeat. Use the
song throughout the upcoming weeks,
providing progressively more complex
patterns.
Clap, Snap, and Stomp! Patterns, patterns, all around,
We can make them using sound!
Snapping, clapping, fast and slow,
Ready, set, now here we go.
Everybody follow me.
Make this pattern carefully.
Patterns
Day
5
Objectives Identify and describe patterns
Materials patterned trade books
Extension Activities Use the
following activities to reinforce/extend the
learning in upcoming days and weeks.
Star Patterns Use rhymes and songs to
model patterns, such as the one below.
Sing it to the tune of “The Wheels on
the Bus.” Provide the patterns using
construction paper for children to point
to while singing. Star Patterns The patterns on the stars go
[red, yellow, green],
[red, yellow, green],
[red, yellow, green],
The patterns on the stars go
[red, yellow, green].
Let’s sing it all together.
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Day
4
Read It Read a book using patterned
language, such as Brown Bear, Brown
Bear by Bill Martin Jr. or one that features
a predictable series of events, such as
Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Have
children identify the pattern shown in
the pictures or repeated in the text.
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Patterns
Create Patterns
Objective Create patterns
Materials transportatiion counters; Mini-Motor
Activity Cards 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 7a, 7b, 12a, 12b, 13a,
13b
Create Patterns Game Distribute
to each child a car, train, or fire truck
counter.
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Content Words Say: Let’s create a pattern. Work with six
children to make the pattern car, train,
car, train, car, train. Go down the row and
tap children’s heads as you say vroom for
those with cars and toot for those with
trains. Ask: What pattern have you made?
Guide children to say what comes next
in the pattern. (car) Invite a child with
a car counter to join the line. Continue
this way until all children with cars and
trains have joined the pattern. Invite one
child to walk down the row to “read” the
pattern.
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Create Patterns
Day
3
Objectives Create patterns
Materials colored construction paper
Follow the Yellow Brick
Road Distribute sheets of colored
construction paper to children.
Ask children to make a “brick road” using
the sheets of construction paper. Have
children determine the color pattern,
then create the brick road pathway
from their classroom door to the next
classroom or another nearby place in the
school.
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Have children walk their brick road,
reciting the color pattern.
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Use this opportunity to extend number
sense. Help children count the number
of each color used to make the road.
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Repeat, making another pattern using
the fire trucks and saying a sound for a
siren as you tap those with fire trucks.
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Have children form small groups.
Provide each group with an Activity
Card. Have groups use counters to
complete the patterns on the cards.
Then have groups switch cards.
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Patterns
Objectives Create patterns
Materials Music Favorites CD 1:27
Sing “Patterns All
Around” Teach children the song “The
Mulberry Bush” on Music Favorites CD
1:27. Then make up a new song called
“Patterns All Around” amd sing it to the
tune of “The Mulberry Bush”.
At the last verse, have children take turns
creating a pattern using objects, sounds,
or movements.
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Patterns All Around
There are many interesting patterns all
around the world;
All around the world;
All around the world.
There are many interesting patterns all
around the world.
Here’s an interesting pattern now . . .
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Create Patterns
Day
5
Objectives Create patterns
Materials stamps, dot paints, sponges, t-shirts
Extension Activities Use the
following activities to reinforce/extend the
learning in upcoming days and weeks.
Patterns All Around Have children
make a pattern with stamps, dot paints,
or small shaped sponges. Children might
choose to put a pattern on a building,
a toy animal, or on clothing (such as a
t-shirt). Allow children time to share their
patterns for classmates to identify.
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Read It Read aloud books featuring
patterns, such as Pattern Bugs or Pattern
Fish by Trudy Harris. Help children
identify and replicate favorite or
interesting patterns shown.
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Letter Patterns Use letters that
children have learned (or letters in their
names) to create patterns. Help children
state the pattern. Then ask children to
create patterns for you to repeat using
the same letters.
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Create Patterns
Day
4
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Patterns
Extend Patterns
Objective Copy and extend patterns
Materials Content Area Flip Chart, p. 36; crayons;
chart paper; Activity Cards 4, 6, 8, 14, 16; counters;
Attribute Buttons
Share and Read Introduce a simple
body pattern such as clap, snap, clap, snap.
Have a volunteer tell you what comes
next. Say, Copy me! and have children join
in as you repeat the pattern several times.
Introduce a variation, such as clap, clap,
snap, snap, hop, hop. Repeat several times
as children join in.
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Content Words Display Content Area Flip Chart,
page 36. Identify the shapes and
colors. Guide children to identify the
pattern in each row. Help children copy
the patterns by coloring in the empty
shapes.
Display the Activity Cards. Have pairs
use counters to copy and extend the
patterns.
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Talk About It Draw several shape
patterns. Have pairs copy the patterns by
threading Attribute Buttons onto string. Help
children “read” their patterns.
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Extend Patterns
Day
3
Objectives Copy and extend patterns
Materials red and green crayons
Crayon Patterns Ask five volunteers
to form a straight line. Tell the first
volunteer to hold up a green crayon in his
or her left hand, followed by a red crayon
in his or her right hand.
Proceed to the second and third
volunteer, continuing the green crayon/
red crayon sequence.
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Beginning with the first volunteer in line,
have children name the objects in each
volunteer’s hands. Ask: Is this a pattern?
How do you know?
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Tell children that the fourth volunteer
should hold a green crayon in his or her
left hand because a green crayon comes
next in the pattern. Ask: What should be
in the right hand?
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Continue with the fifth volunteer. When
the pattern is completed, have children
chorally repeat the pattern.
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Patterns
Objectives Copy and extend patterns
Materials color cubes or connecting cubes, cups,
sentence strip
Extend Patterns
Day
5
Objectives Copy and extend patterns
Materials pattern manipulatives, Pattern Cards,
Mini-Motor Math manipulatives, instruments
What Comes Next? Arrange color
Extension Activities Use the
cubes on a sentence strip to make a
pattern. Make at least five repetitions of
the pattern’s core, such as AB/AB/AB/AB/AB. following activities to reinforce/extend the
learning in upcoming days and weeks.
Place cups over the last two color cubes
in the extended pattern and have
children determine which color comes
next in the sequence.
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Repeat by making a more complicated
pattern, such as ABC or AAB. Repeat the
core pattern at least five times. Instead
of hiding the last two elements in the
sequence, cover up two color cubes in
the middle of the pattern. Have children
determine the color of the hidden cubes.
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Repeat this activity during Center Time
in upcoming days and weeks. Encourage
children to create their own patterns for
you or classmates to extend.
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Pattern Manipulatives Fill the Math
Center with manipulatives that can be
used to form patterns. These include
attribute buttons, blocks, shapes,
lacing beads, unifix cubes, square tiles
of different colors, and the Mini-Motor
Math Counters.
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Pattern Cards After using the pattern
cards in lessons, leave them in the Math
Center for children to try on their own.
Have children explain the patterns they
made or extended.
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Extend Patterns
Day
4
Music Patterns Provide musical
instruments for children to explore
creating patterns. Encourage them to
teach their patterns to classmates. Have
the classmates extend the patterns.
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