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Week 06 · Patterns Are Repeats

Monday

See it, write it
// See it, then write it
⏱ about 15 min
Rocket the inventor holding his engineering tablet

Patterns are repeats!

A pattern is a repeat.

You clapped patterns in Kindergarten.

Now you can write them!

WARM-UP: REPEAT POWER
  • Remember the golden line.
  • Tap the answer.
the clap show
?
clap wings
clap wings
clap wings
?
A bead string with the pattern red, blue, red, blue, red, blue

Beads make a pattern

Red, blue. Red, blue. Red, blue.

The same group, three times.

That is a pattern!

Raven the explorer with her wrist computer

What do you notice?

Find the group that repeats.

Clap, stomp. Red, blue.

Groups make patterns!

Nova the drone-bird hovering with glowing eyes

Nova writes the pattern

A pattern is a repeat.

So a repeat line writes it.

Nova loves that!

WHAT COMES NEXT?
  • Say the pattern out loud.
  • Tap what comes next.
red bead
blue bead
red bead
blue bead
?
clap wings
tap feet
clap wings
?
red bead
red bead
blue bead
red bead
red bead
?

You can SEE patterns.

Now WRITE one as a program.

Clap, tap, three times!

repeat 3 times:
clap wings
tap feet
stop
WRITE THE PATTERN
  • The group is clap, tap.
  • The repeat runs it three times.
1line 1
2line 2
3line 3
4line 4
bead stringmatches the program?
red blue red blue red blue?
red blue red blue?
blue red blue red blue red?
red red blue red red blue?

Word Spot: know, let

Here are new sight words.

Look at each word. Say it. Spell it.

Know: K-N-O-W.

Let: L-E-T.

FIND THE WORD
  • Listen to the word.
  • Tap it.
Listen and find
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Listen and find
?
Listen and find
?
Listen and find
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FILL THE GAP
  • Listen to the sentence.
  • Tap the missing word.
Which word fits?
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Which word fits?
?

You wrote a pattern!

Find the group that repeats.

Put it under a repeat line.

That is writing patterns!