One child walks around the outside of a circle and taps successive children in a headshouldershoulderhead pattern. The teacher asks who the next person to be tapped on the head would be if the pattern were to be continued. The children sing and act out the song, Head, shoulders, knees and toes . Students describe patterns made from circles, triangles, and squares, and select the next shape in the pattern. Students make patterns with letters and extend the sequence.
Students create one more and one less patterns.
Students create patterns with the calculator. Students may repeatedly add or subtract any number. They work in pairs to find how many people there are if there are 20 eyes. Students use skip counting or calculators to find multiples of numbers and then color them on the hundreds chart. Linking cubes or Unifix cubes can be used to build towers or trains with every other cube or every third cube a certain color to illustrate, recognize, and practice skip counting patterns.