Students go on a pattern hunt around the classroom and the school, discussing the patterns they find. In reading, students recognize patterns in rhythm, in rhyming, in syllables and in sequencing. Stories such as Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews, Five Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed by Eileen Christelow, Jump, Frog, Jump by Robert Kalan, The Little Red Hen , and Dr. Seuss books offer such opportunities. Visual patterns can be shown using picture representations for children's books such as 1 Hunter by Pat Hutchins, Rooster's Off to See the World by Eric Carle, The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy, and The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco. They use those sets of letters to see what words they can make.
Students choose a day.
They select a date, and give the date of the next day and of the previous day, the name of the month, of the next month, and of the previous month. Students graph daily weather patterns, showing sunny, cloudy, rainy or snowy days. Then they discuss monthly or seasonal patterns. In social studies, students identify traffic patterns such as how many cars, trucks, or buses pass the front of the school during five minutes at different times of the day. They keep records for five days, organizing the information in chart form.