This week, the children have been developing their understanding of patterns, focussing on creating and continuing patterns that are not just colour based, but also include changes in quantity, size or shape. The children have been encouraged to name the repeating pattern once, rather than read what they have created over and over again. This is trickier than it sounds and the children have worked hard on their repeating patterns. This learning will help the children as they begin to explore patterns in numbers later in the year.
The children created patterns on their Christmas decorations and these can be seen on the class display in the main hall.