Patterns, Patterns, Patterns

Patterns are everywhere but they can be hard to describe, continue or create.  We have spent a few afternoons looking around our classroom to find patterns and describe patterns, and also to make our own.

Some questions the children had to think about:
- is a row of the same colour a pattern?
- if you are using 2 colours, do you have to put them in an order to make a pattern?
- how many bits (colours / shapes / different components) can you have in a pattern?

Some people found it tricky at first but after a few goes, everyone was able to make patterns with different colours or shapes.