Category: School Activities

Patterns are arrangements of things that repeat in a logical way. These arrangements of colours, shapes, gestures, sounds, images, and numbers are a crucial concept for young children and contribute heavily to their early Mathematics understanding.

Have children create patterns using different coloured objects. These objects may be everyday objects such as bottle caps, buttons, sweets, toy building blocks, counters from board games etc.

 

Below you can find a link for an online pattern game and some printables.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

pattern sheet  (printable pdf file)

 

Ms Marita K2.3

Sorting practice involving colours, shapes and size.

Prepare some different shape cut outs using either cardboard or some coloured paper you find at home. Make sure you cut out different coloured shapes in different sizes. This activity is aimed for Kinder 1 and Kinder 2 students so try to keep the shapes as easy and simple as possible.

On 3 different A3 white sheets draw 3 big circles next to each other. (Obviously that fit in the paper) and on top write a title on each paper. I can sort by shape, I can sort by colour and I can sort by size. Let your child start sorting ideally with shapes and colours first and then let him/her sort by size as it may be a little bit more challenging.

This activity is aimed to help and improve colour and shape recognition, learning through sorting and improving the children’s fine motor skills.

 

Ms Anna

Kinder 1.2