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Math Unit about Patterning

Dear Parents,

Year 1 has begun a mathematics unit on patterning. The central idea is:

Things we see, hear, and do follow patterns.

Our essential questions are:

What is a pattern?

Where can we find patterns?

How are the parts of a pattern connected?

What is the relationship between the parts of a pattern?

We will be very busy making patterns in many different ways.We will:

  make and copy patterns.

  learn to predict what will come next if the pattern is to continue.

  think about what makes a pattern.

  learn to identify a pattern (which could be made of actions, sounds, colours or objects).

  communicate our ideas to describe patterns we see in our environment.

  create our own patterns using numbers, sounds, colours, shapes, objects and actions.

How can you help out at home?

  Lots of household items are fun to make patterns with: buttons, coins, keys, bottle tops, shoes, toys and food

  Use your body to make a pattern i.e. clap your hands; tap your knees in a repetitive pattern. Can your childcarry on your pattern? Can your child make a pattern for you to extend?

  At NIST we encourage children to explain their thinking, this is called metacognition. Can your child explain

what a pattern is?

  Go on a pattern hunt in your home and local area. You might find patterns in clothing, shop displays,

buildings and supermarkets. How many patterns can you find? Now go to your closet and look at your clothes

which ones have patterns and which ones do not? You could sort them into two groups: those with patterns

and those without.

Optional Activity for you and your child 

Year One Pattern Museum

Please do not feel you have to do this; however if you go on a pattern hunt with your child please could you send in:

  photographs

  clothes

  objects

  drawings

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How you could do this at home

Go on a pattern hunt in your home and local area.

You might find patterns in clothing, shop displays, buildings and supermarkets.

How many patterns can you find?

Now go to your closet and look at your clothes, which ones have patterns and which ones do not? You could sort

them into two groups: those with patterns and those without.

Vocabulary Development

We would like your help in explaining ( using simple words ) the Essential Questions and vocabulary listed below to your

child in their mother tongue. Once they understand the ideas and words in their mother tongue please help them to learn

the English vocabulary they need to share these ideas with their teacher and classmates. 

Vocabulary 

  Pattern

  Next  – what comes next in the pattern?

  Describe  – use words to tell others about your pattern E.g. Heart, heart, circle, square. Heart, heart, circle, square

  Copy – look at a pattern and make the same one yourself 

  Make a pattern of your own

  Continue a pattern that someone else has started

Thank you for your help and support with this unit. If you should have any questions, no matter how big or small, please

come and talk to us.

Kind regardsThe Year One Team 

NB: We begin this unit with simple patterns E.g. 

Patterns can then get more complex E.g.