Mathematical learning – Exploring pattern
As part of our maths learning, we have been exploring pattern in and around nursery. We started by talking about what the word ‘pattern’ means and then looking for them on our clothes, talking about the different ones we could see. The children were also interested in those clothes that didn’t have patterns and were therefore ‘plain’. Before the children embarked on creating their own patterns, the children were invited to go on a pattern hunt around the nursery garden and then the school grounds. This sparked lots of talk about shapes and textures as well as colour and size.
Later, we used the textile artist Annie Albers as inspiration for creating our own patterns, using paint as well as creative resources such as strips of paper and coloured shapes. The children and adults discussed the types of patterns they had created, such as stripy, spotty and checked.
Later, the children used other resources to create and explore pattern, such as paint sticks, pens in movement play as well as the ‘2 simple’ ‘2 paint’ programme on the interactive white board.
