Let’s have fun learning math and science together! With these special pattern cards and colorful slides, you can look for shapes like spirals and hexagons all around you. They are perfect for your preschool math center, circle time, or even a nature walk to find patterns in the world!
Want to explore math with your hands and eyes? These pattern cards and slides help us see and talk about the shapes we find in nature, like spirals, animal spots, and honeycombs. We can look at the cards, find patterns outside, and have lots of fun discovering together!
Here’s What’s Included:
- Digital slides you can show on the big screen! You can look at them together on your classroom TV or whiteboard and talk about all the different patterns.
- Over 60 real photo pattern cards! These cards show us amazing patterns from nature in six special groups.
- Animal coats: jaguar spots, cow patterning, peacock feathers, snake scales, crocodile skin, turtle shells.
- Spirals: snail shell, rose, pinecone, sunflower, succulent, shell, hurricane, labyrinth, chameleon tail.
- Branching: leaf veins, river deltas, bare trees, lightning, tree roots.
- Hexagons: Dragonfly wings, cracked mud, turtle shell grid, honeycomb, pineapple.
- Concentric Rings: onion slices, beet slices, water ripples, flower centers, tree trunk rings.
- Fractals: snowflakes, fern fronds, Romanesco broccoli.
- Self-correcting control cards: double-sided coat cards with a close-up pattern on the front and the full animal control on the back.
- Teacher Setup & Buyer’s Instructions page: Materials list, lamination tips, binder-ring mini-book field guide assembly, and differentiation strategies.
Fun Ways to Play and Learn:
- Circle Time on the Rug: Let’s sit together and look at the slides on the big screen. We can talk about each pattern and share what we see!
- Nature Walk and Pattern Hunt: Take the cards outside and see if you can find spirals, stripes, or honeycombs in the playground or garden. Let’s be pattern detectives!
- Sensory Tray Fun: Use things like pipe cleaners, blocks, and rings to make your own patterns that match the cards. Touch, build, and play while you learn!
- Tracing Time: Grab a marker and trace the snail shells, honeycombs, and leaf shapes right on the cards. It’s a fun way to practice drawing and spotting patterns!
Why You’ll Love It:
- Easy for teachers and fun for kids! You can print the cards for hands-on play, or use the slides right away on your classroom screen. Learning can happen anywhere!
- We use real photos (not cartoons) so students can see what nature looks like and learn about the world around them!
- Differentiated for all learners: from screen-based whole-group lessons to hands-on sensory tray tracing and outdoor movement scavenger hunts.
- Aligned to the Early Learning Standards: aligns with Creative Curriculum/GOLD objectives in Scientific Inquiry, Geometry and Spatial Reasoning (Obj. 21b: Understands shapes), and Fine Motor Control.
Additional Details & FAQs:
- Grade levels: Preschool, Pre-K, Transitional Kindergarten (TK), and Kindergarten.
- Format: PDF document (Printable Cards & Field Guide) + PowerPoint PPTX file (Digital Presentation Slides)
- Printing tip: Open and print the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader (free), or the fonts and clip art borders won’t print correctly.