exploring patterns

Exploring Simple Patterns

By the end of this unit, children will be able to identify and create simple patterns using objects and pictures. They will be able to continue and extend patterns by predicting what comes next in a pattern sequence.

Target Age:

Lesson Overview

By the end of this unit, children will be able to:

  • identify and create simple patterns using objects and pictures.
  • Continue and extend patterns by predicting what comes next in a pattern sequence.

Curriculum Alignment:

  • Development Matters − 3 and 4-year-olds – Talk about and identify the patterns around them.
  • Birth to 5 Matters − Range 5 – Explores and adds to simple linear patterns of two or three repeating items.
Last updated on: February 20, 2026

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