Pretty Patterns

Kindy know a lot about patterns. A pattern is something that repeats. That means, the same thing happens lots of times. We can talk about patterns by saying how many things are in the pattern, or how many times the pattern repeats.

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This is a two pattern because it has two parts – happy face :), and sad face 🙁 .
This pattern repeats 3 times.

Learning about visual patterns now will get us ready to learn about number patterns to skip count, and eventually get us ready for number relationships, like when we learn times tables.

If you want to practice some more, try these games:

About Ms Salmon

I am a teacher in NSW, Australia. I use this blog for my students each year, and for collecting games, videos, images etc. for use with those classes.