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Pattern Snakes

During this art-inspired lesson plan, your students will practice identifying, building, and describing simple patterns!
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Color Patterns: Not Always Black and White lesson plan.
Grade:
Pre-K
View aligned standards
K.G.A.1
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Color Patterns: Not Always Black and White lesson plan.

Objectives

Academic
  • Students will be able to identify and create a pattern.
Language
  • Students will be able to identify the characteristics of a pattern and describe patterns using positional language.

Introduction

(3 minutes)
  • Gather the class together and introduce the lesson by doing a brief picture walk of the book, Hide and Snake by Keith Baker.
  • Ask students to think about what the book is about as you look at the pages during the picture walk. Encourage students to share out ideas by saying what they see on the pages.
  • Explain that today you will be learning all about patterns or designs that repeat at least two times.