Overview and Background: Unit: Patterns

 Name: Marilyn Dalbom

Cheney Elementary : Kindergarten

Title:	Patterns
Topics:	Patterns, Shapes
Time Frame:
Start Date:	-

Other Designers: Tracy May, Sharen Young

Summary:

Patterns in music

Patterns in art – Color patterns

Snapping

Number patterns

Shapes

Calendar

Words & Rhyme

Letters (doubles, ch, sh, th)

Print Materials Needed:

Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

Quilt Alphabet, written by Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrated by James Ransome

If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
The House That Jack Built
The Napping House

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Nursery Rhyme "Star Light, Star Bright"

Resources:

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:

http://www.teachrkids.com/fronts/pattern.htm

http://www.funschool.com/kindergartenactivities
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes
http://www.kindergartenclass.netfirms
http://www.geocities.com/kinderkorner
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplans/playwithwords

Notes:

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	KS
Title:	Math
Standard(s):	Kansas

Understandings:

There are patterns all around them.
Patterns can be extended.
Patterns convey meaning about the world.
Patterns allow prediction of what will/may occur.

Essential Questions:

What is a pattern?
What kinds of patterns are in our world?
How do you predict what might come next?

Knowledge and Skills:

K: Students will know:

Knows what a pattern is.

Knows how to extend a pattern.
Can make three different patterns using the same manipulatives.
Can name the pattern two different ways.
Can pick out a pattern within the classroom.
Can show a pattern pictorially.
Can show a pattern numerically

S: Students will be able to: make a pattern using Unifex cubes

and color an ABC pattern.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary: Students will be given several different colors of unifex cubes

and will build a ABC pattern. Color a stack of unifex cubes

using your crayons on the worksheet provided.

Student Directions:

Rubric: The student must achieve an overall average score of at least

A 3.0 on a 5.0 scale.

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities: What sequence of teaching and learning experiences will be used?

1. Hook: Using graham crackers, line up students and give each a whole/rectangle or half/square making an AB pattern.

At end of activity the students may eat graham crackers.Overview and Expectation: Students will understand and learn the human and physical characteristics for each region and be able to compare the characteristics to Kansas.

2. Teaching Activities, Assessments & Rethinking opportunities in order: Make a bead necklace making following a model;

skipping (a step-hop-step-hop physical pattern);

telling what day "yesterday" was and what day "tomorrow" will be;
telling the "next number" when given a series of 3 consecutive numbers
using word-family rhyming patterns to identify words orally or visually.