This week we have been learning to name, copy, and extend patterns in math. One of the stories that we read to help us with this concept was Beep Beep, Vroom Vroom. This is a story about a little girl that loves to play with her big brother's toy cars. Students identified many patterns in this story by looking at the color and order of the cars.
Our math stations for this rotation include practice with sorting and patterning:
Station One: Students are making a pattern using red and blue cubes. They then record their pattern on their paper.
Station Two: Students sort beads by color. Each student has their own basket of pipe cleaners and bowl of beads. Students thread the beads on the matching pipe cleaner to sort them.
Not only are students sorting by color, but they are also building fine motor skills. Fine motor skills involve the muscles of the hand that allow us to write and grasp small objects.
Station Three: Students are copying and extending patterns using pattern blocks.
After building the pattern, students practice saying the pattern (hexagon, diamond, diamond, hexagon, diamond, diamond).
Station Four: Students make patterns using bear counters.
Students copy the pattern and then extend the pattern on their own. These pattern cards were printed from http://www.jmeacham.com/
Students continued to rotate through the literacy stations posted last week. Please check back next weekend for pictures of our new literacy stations!
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