Digital Story-Fruit Kabob Patterns

Below is the digital story that I created with my preschool students. One of the skills on our district wide math assessment is patterning. A child must be able to successfully extend a pattern, and then create their own pattern and be able to explain what kind of pattern they made.  The children in my class used fruit manipulatives to first practice the skill of patterning along with sentence strips which have spaces for them to extend a pattern and blank ones for them to practice creating their own patterns. Once children practiced making patterns using sentence strips and manipulatives they were provided with strawberries and bananas to pattern on kabob sticks. Some children showed mastery creating an AB pattern while others demonstrated the ability to create ABB patterns and AABB patterns. This was an excellent way for me to differentiate and authentically assess their ability to pattern. After the children finished making their kabobs they visited the writing table and wrote about the learning process, how they first practiced using manipulatives then got to pattern using fruit to show their learning. The children in my class enjoyed this learning experience so much!