Nursery World - Hold the line

Develop children's understanding of repeating patterns. 1 LARGE AND SMALL.

1 LARGE AND SMALL.

Adult-led.

Form patterns in lines of toy animals.

Planned learning intention

*To talk about, recognise and recreate simple patterns

*To investigate objects and materials by using all of their senses as appropriate

Adult-child ratio 1:4

Resources

Collection of farm animals (or similar); strips of paper for pathway; piece of paper for field.

Activity content

* Show the children the animals and encourage a discussion, for example, 'Is your favourite animal here?' 'Have you seen animals like these anywhere else?'

* Say you are going to line them up to get them into the field, and talk about the pattern as you build it, for example large sheep, small sheep, large chicken, small chicken, large pig, small pig.

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