Students go on a scavenger hunt for patterns around the classroom and the school. They are given a list of verbal descriptions of specific patterns to look for, such as a pattern using squares or an ABAB pattern . They use cameras to make photographs of the patterns that they find. Students read The Twelve Days of Summer by Elizabeth Lee O'Donnell and Karen Lee Schmidt. Using the same pattern as the song The Twelve Days of Christmas , the authors tell the story of a young girl on vacation by the ocean.
Students learn about the different time zones across the country.
They describe the number patterns found in moving from east to west, and vice versa. Students read books such as Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore or The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns. They explore the patterns and relationships found in these books. Students study patterns in television programming. For example, they might look at the number of commercials on TV in an hour or how many cartoon shows are on at different times of the day.