Lesson video

Welcome to our lesson on describing and creating patterns.

In this Math lesson, I'll be working with you.

My name is Mrs. Harris.

We've got a really busy lesson and these are all the things we are going to do today.

We're going to sing a song.

We're going to do some new learning and do some exploring of our new learning.

Then, I'd like to develop your understanding of patterns before you do some independent learning.

That's learning of your very own.

We need quite few things for this lesson on patterns.

If you can, I'd like you to slip outside and find four natural materials.

I've got some in my books just here, because we're going to be making patterns with natural materials.

I thought a camera would be lovely, so we could take a photo of them and keep it forever.

Now, maybe you have a camera at home that your grownups could use, or maybe they could take a picture on their mobile phone for you.

I'd also like you to have some colouring pencils and some paper because you need a paper to colour on.

So, if you don't have them things right now, pause the video, go and find them and then come back with everything you need.

See you in a few minutes.

We're going to start by singing a song.

And I found a nice video for you to watch with all the words on the screen.

It's a bit different to one of the versions I know of the song of the finger family but I think you'll like it.

♪ Finger family, finger family, ♪ ♪ How are you? ♪ ♪ We are fine, we are fine.

♪ ♪ How about you? ♪ ♪ Mother Margaret, Mother Margaret, ♪ ♪ How are you? ♪ ♪ I am fine, I am fine.

♪ ♪ How about you? ♪ ♪ Father Fred, Father Fred, ♪ ♪ How are you? ♪ ♪ I am fine, I am fine.

♪ ♪ How about you? ♪ ♪ Sister Susan, Sister Susan, ♪ ♪ How are you? ♪ ♪ I am fine, I am fine.

♪ ♪ How about you? ♪ ♪ Brother Brian, Brother Brian, ♪ ♪ How are you? ♪ ♪ I am fine, I am fine.

♪ ♪ How about you? ♪ ♪ Baby Ben, Baby Ben, ♪ ♪ How are you? ♪ ♪ I am fine, I am fine.

♪ ♪ How about you? ♪ Did you liked the song about the finger family? And look we can use our fingers to make the finger family too.

Now the finger family, they love patterns.

And they've decided to go to the zoo today, to see if they can find any patterns there.

Finally, the finger family, already on the zoo.

and they're ready to find some patterns.

This is what Daddy finger is great at.

He's going to look around all the animals at the zoo.

He's going to look at the big ones, the small ones.

He's going to even look at the flowers around the zoo, to see lots and lots of lovely patterns.

Let's have a look at what he found.

Now, the finger family, they started looking for patterns as soon as they got in the car to go to the zoo.

Brother finger, he was looking at his window and he saw somebody in the car next to him with a patterned t-shirt.

This was the pattern, he saw on the t-shirt.

What do you notice about it? It's a repeating pattern, isn't it? It goes red, yellow, red, yellow, red, yellow, red.

And we could put that into a sentence.

We could say, the pattern is yellow, red, yellow, red.

Patterns are not always stripes.

We could have a spotty pattern too.

We could use our sentence again here.

And we could say, the pattern is green dot, purple dot, green dot, purple dot.

The pattern just keeps on going along.

This was another t-shirt.

And the person was another person in the car with the striped t-shirt was wearing.

Now, these are colour patterns, and I think they're lovely, but there are other types of patterns too.

Sister finger, she was looking out some size patterns.

Along the journey, she saw a big tower, but then she saw a little tower and she did like the words big and little, but she decided to say tall and short.

So, she said the pattern is, tall tower, short tower.

Now, what do you think is going to come next? Think back to the stripes where we had yellow, red, yellow, red, or think back to the spots where we had green, purple, green, purple, green, purple.

What do you think is going to come next? A short tower or a tall tower? That's right.

It's a a tall tower.

So, the pattern is tall tower, short tower, tall tower, short tower.

Wow, then Sister finger sees lots and lots of towers on their way to the zoo.

Now, we've looked at colour patterns.

This is not a colour pattern.

This is a size pattern.

But Baby finger, he was looking out for something even more complex.

He was looking out the size and colour patterns.

And this is what he saw.

He saw this pattern.

Can you use my sentence? "The pattern is", my sentence starter and you use it to describe the pattern you can see on the screen now.

You're going to need to think about the size and the colour of the towers.

Have you made a start? I would say, the pattern is grey, tall tower, pink, tall tower, blue short tower, grey short tower.

And then, I'd start again because my pattern repeats.

Is that my patter repeat, has this many things in it? It has four things.

So, the pattern is grey, tall tower, pink tall tower, blue, short tower, grey short tower.

Blue, not blue.

Grey, tall tower, pink, tall tower, blue, short tower, grey, short tower, grey, tall tower, pink, tall tower, blue, short tower, grey, short tower.

Wow.

Haven't we looked at a lot of patterns just on our way to the zoo? Have you ever been on a long journey? I have.

In the finger family's journey to the zoo, was a long one.

So, they decided to stop on the way to have a little break and have a little snack.

But Mommy Finger, she decided to look around the things she could make patterns with.

And she found lots of natural things like this pine cone, like some flowers, some stones, and some leaves.

Mommy finger like doing this because it didn't matter what time of year.

She stopped to find natural things to make a pattern with.

She found different things, every single time.

Mommy finger like to take photographs of her patterns.

Let's have a look at some of them together.

Wow.

Look at one of the patterns Mommy Finger made.

We could say the pattern is, white petal, yellow petal, red petal, white petal, yellow petal, red petal, white petal, yellow petal, red petal.

But Mommy Finger, she thought this pattern was a bit too easy for her.

So, she made an even trickier one and took a photo of that too.

She made, the pattern is, white petal, yellow petal, red petal, lavender, lavender, white petal, yellow petal, red petal, lavender, lavender, white petal, yellow petal, red petal, Oh, the painter must have cut the last bit off.

What should you put there? Yes, they're long things, kind of purply, lavender.

Do you know that she took a photograph of them? See, what she did next.

Ooh.

She made it going the other way.

She made it going down rather than across.

I like that.

Ooh, this time, she did, the pattern is stone, stone, pine cone, stone, stone, pine cone, stone, stone, pine cone, stone, stone, pinecone, that's what she needed next.

Now, do you remember I asked you to find some natural materials and a camera? That's because I'd like you to use Mommy finger's idea and make some of your own patterns with your natural materials and then take a quick photo of them.

So, pause the video now and then come back to me when you've finished.

Do you remember that pattern, that Brother finger saw on someone's t-shirt? He found this one and he said, the pattern is red, yellow, red, yellow.

I remember it's a striped repeating pattern.

Well, because the journey was just so long, Sister finger decided to have a think, what other patterns could they make with just these two colours? And Sister finger, it was her go first.

She made this pattern.

Are this pattern the same? And how is it different? Well it's the same because Sister finger used the same colours, didn't she? That was part of the game.

Sister finger, instead of putting her stripes horizontal, she put her stripes diagonal across the page.

Therefore, it is the same pattern, just different.

I like it, but then it was brother finger's turn and then Sister fingers turn again.

And so they had to think really, really hard about how they could use these colours to make another pattern and another pattern.

Just before I show you my ideas and brother, and Sister fingers ideas, close your eyes and think of you're own idea, something you could make a pattern with red and yellow.

Go on.

Let me show you what I found.

So, Wow! So many options for red and yellow patterns.

Wow! They're fantastic.

I don't think I knew there was so many patterns we could make and with just two colours.

I think brother finger and Sister finger had a great competition going on, don't you? Finally, the finger family is already at the zoo and they're ready to find some patterns.

This is what Daddy finger is great at.

He's going to look around all the animals at the zoo.

He's going to look at the big ones, the small ones.

He's going to even look at the flowers around the zoo to see lots and lots of lovely patterns.

Let's have a look at what he found.

Wow! I can hardly believe all the patterns that Daddy finger found at the zoo.

He really is a great pattern detective.

He has found red and yellow flowers.

Maybe that inspired that t-shirt from earlier.

He has found purple and white striped flowers.

He has found spotty patterns, hasn't he? When he found the lady bug and the cheetah or is it a leopard? He found a striped tiger.

Look at them, lovely colours.

He found a butterfly with beautiful patterns on it and a chameleon.

Look, he found two patterns that were yellow and black stripes.

But they're quite different, aren't they? Look at the scaly snake and the fluffy bumblebee.

Wow! Daddy finger, you're great at finding patterns.

I think we should help Daddy finger, remember these patterns he found at the zoo, whatever and the way we're going to do that is, well you're going to draw one of them.

Now, I don't need you to draw a tiger or a lady bug.

What I'd like is with your piece of paper and your colouring pencils to take inspiration.

That means just get an idea from one of the animals at the zoo, or maybe one that you're thinking of, of your very own, and make a repeating pattern.

Maybe you'll do a colour pattern, but if you wanted to do a size pattern, you could maybe do big elephant, tiny lady bug, big elephant, tiny lady bug, whatever you choose to do.

I look forward to seeing it but you're going to need to pause the video now and come back to me when you're done.

I think I'm going to have a go as well.

So, here is what I took inspiration from.

I took inspiration from a cobweb and I decided to draw my cobweb out and my pattern came in the way that I coloured it.

I coloured it.

So, I had a red one, white one, red one, white one, red one, white one.

But on the other bit of the cobweb did an alternative design.

I wonder how your patterns turned out.

I look forward to seeing them.

We've had such a busy lesson creating and describing patterns.

Maybe, you'd like to share some of your photographs of your natural patterns that you've taken or the pattern inspired by one of the animals at the zoo with me.

And you can do that, you just need to ask your parent's or carer's permission and for them to put it on social media for you.

All the details are on your screen.

I'll be looking out for it.

Bye.