Easter Egg Patterns

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Read aloud the book, The Best Easter Eggs Ever! by Jerry Smath
• Pause as you read to point out the different patterns the assistants use as they compete in the Easter Bunny’s contest.

Guided Practice

• Ask the students to imagine that they are the Easter Bunny and need to find a new pattern to decorate the eggs.
• Explain or review that a pattern is a design that repeats using the same shapes. Draw an AB and an ABC pattern on the board to demonstrate.
• Ask students to think of all of the 2-D shapes that they know, as they record the shapes on the board (circle, square, rectangle, triangle, heart, star, diamond, etc.).
• Have students help you choose two shapes to use in your pattern. Invite students to say the pattern aloud as you draw it on the board (e.g., circle, heart, circle, heart) then say, “This is called an AB pattern, because there are two repeating shapes. If I add a third shape, like a diamond to make it circle, heart, diamond, circle heart, diamond then it would be called an ABC pattern.”

Independent working time

• Explain to the students that they will now get to create their very own egg patterns for the Easter Bunny’s contest.
• Tell students that they will get to make one egg with an AB pattern and one egg with an ABC pattern.
• Pass out the Egg Pattern worksheets to each student to complete independently.