Daily Lessons in Patterns Preschool Math Unit

Description

The Daily Lessons in Preschool Mathematics: Patterns Unit gives you a clear, structured way to teach patterns without overcomplicating instruction.

Through short daily lessons and engaging activities, preschoolers learn to notice, describe, extend, and create patterns using colors, shapes, movements, and objects they can manipulate and explore.

This unit can be used on its own or as part of the complete Daily Lessons in Preschool Math Curriculum.

What’s Included in the Patterns Unit

This unit includes four weeks (20 days) of developmentally appropriate positions and patterns instruction, organized into simple daily lessons. You’ll find:

• Scope-and-sequence placement guidance
• Daily math routines focused on patterns and positional words
• Weekly concept exploration prompts
• Hands-on positions and pattern activities and visuals
• Teacher notes and instructional support
• Bonus activities and accommodation suggestions

Everything is laid out step-by-step so lessons are easy to follow and repeat.

Targeted Skills in the PositPattern Concepts & Skills Covered

This preschool math unit focuses on early pattern awareness and foundational algebraic thinking, including:ions & Patterns Preschool Unit:

• Recognize a pattern
• Describe a pattern
• Copy a pattern
• Extend a pattern
• Create a pattern

Pattern Types Included:

• AB
• ABC
• AABB

Math Positional Words Included:

These preschool patterning skills are met with short, hands-on, daily learning routines and teacher-directed activities. They are reinforced with weekly printable math centers, weekly discovery concept activities, and integrated literacy activities.

Hands-On Preschool Math Centers Included

Each week includes printable, reusable math centers that align directly with the daily lessons.

Preschool Math Centers in Patterning Unit:

• 5-1 Positional Words Clip Cards
• 5-2 Positional Words Task Cards
• 5-3 Positional Words Cover All
• 5-4 Pattern Matching, Extending, Filling In
• 5-5 Pattern 1:1 Correspondence
• 5-6 Building Playdough Patterns
• 5-7 Yoga Kids Pattern Task Cards
• 5-8 Musical Pattern Task Cards

The preschool math curriculum also includes a teacher guide for implementing the curriculum in a spiral and unit based approach.

How This Unit Fits Into the Full Preschool Math Curriculum

The Patterns Unit is one component of the Daily Lessons in Preschool Mathematics Curriculum, a year-long math program created specifically for preschool learners.

The full curriculum includes:

• 40 weeks of math instruction
• A spiral, unit-based scope and sequence
• Coverage of counting, operations, graphing, measurement, shapes, and patterns
• Built-in teacher guidance throughout

If you’d like every math lesson planned for the year, the complete curriculum is available as a bundled option.

Additional Required Materials

• attribute shapes
• attribute buttons
• counting bears
• snap cubes

Here are four weeks of preschool lesson plans for teaching patterns to preschoolers. Get them all in a single download for preschool math lesson plans patterns. This unit also teaches math positions, as well as how to explain patterns to preschoolers, and offers several types of patterns for preschoolers to practice. Everything you need for how to teach patterns to preschoolers.