Connections Pre-K Sampler

32 ii Unit 4 Pre-K In Unit 4, children form perceptions of patterns. Inmaking patterns, they employ the senses of sight, hearing, and touch, and they developmotor skills. Theymarch around the roomwith drums and other percussion instruments to develop rhythmicmusical patterns. Patterns of color are observed in clothing andwithmanipulatives. Patterns of shape and attributes such as “big, little” aremodeledwith buttons, attribute blocks, and pattern blocks. Positional patterns describe orientation in space, such as “inside, outside.” After learning to copy simple alternating A-B patterns, children are asked themore difficult question, “What should come next?” At first, only a few childrenwill be able to follow and predict the next item in a pattern. Increasingly, additional childrenwill join in and be able to do the pattern. Students explore to find that shapes can bemade within other shapes, and shapes can also be put together tomake new shapes. They identify figures that have symmetry by folding a shape into two parts to see if the partsmatch. Overview Unit 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Students learn to copy and build alternating patterns based on attributes of the items, “white, black, white, black.” They are asked to continue the pattern to show what comes next. Building a pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PK-4 Identify and extend a pattern using color, people, objects, pictures, and numbers. PK-7 Order numbers from 0 to 10. Count forward and backward from any number between 1 and 10. Find the number that comes next, before, or between. PK-15 Identify, compare, and sort plane figures: straight lines, curved lines, circle, square, triangle, rectangle, and oval. Slide, flip, and rotate shapes. Explore how shapes can bemadewithin shapes and put together to form new shapes. Identify figureswith symmetry. Identify and Build a Pattern Unit4