Lesson video

Hi, welcome to your math lesson with me, Mrs. Harris.

In this lesson, we're going to be looking at patterns.

This looks like a super busy lesson, doesn't it? But don't worry, it'll fly by.

We're going to sing a song together.

Maybe it's one you already know, then we'll do some new learning that will be about patterns.

After that, you've got a little talk task to do, and that will be about patterns as well.

Then I really want you to dig deep and understand a bit more about patterns.

And finally, because I can't do all the work, there'll be a job for you to do by yourself on patterns.

You're going to need a few things.

First one's a bit hard to see.

You are going to need some plain paper, but don't worry if you haven't got plain paper.

You could use lined paper.

You could use a cardboard box.

Anything that you can draw on, and then it'd be great if you could have some colouring pencils to draw some patterns later on.

If you haven't got these things, pause the video now and go and find them and then come back to me when you have.

Have you got them? Great.

So this is our song and our song is about the finger family.

Can you see them down there? There is a daddy finger, a mommy finger, a sister finger, a brother finger, and a baby finger.

And the song goes like this.

♪ Daddy finger, daddy finger, where are you? ♪ ♪ Here I am, here I am, how do you do? ♪ And then we just do the same, but with mommy finger, and sister finger, and brother finger, and baby finger.

So you ready to join in with me? ♪Daddy finger, daddy finger, where you? ♪ ♪ Here I am, here I am, how do you do? ♪ ♪ Mommy finger, mommy finger, where are you? ♪ ♪ Here I am, here I am, how do you do? ♪ ♪ Sister finger, sister finger, where are you? ♪ ♪ Here I am, here I am, how do you do? ♪ ♪ Brother finger, brother finger, where are you? ♪ ♪ Here I am, here I am, how do you do? ♪ ♪ Baby finger, baby finger, where are you? ♪ ♪ Here I am, here I am, I love you.

♪ Now.

The finger's family are going to feature quite a lot in our lesson because they have a little problem they need our help with.

Today's new learning is about patterns.

And I think if you looked around you, you could probably see some patterns.

In fact, there is a pattern on my jumper.

Can you see it? Yes.

It's where it goes red, white, red, white, red, white.

Did you notice the colours are repeating over and over again? Making a pattern.

The finger family have been invited to a birthday party, so they bought a present and they want to wrap it up.

Now the finger family, they do like a nice pattern, but all they could find was this old piece of paper.

Is there a pattern on this? No, there's no patterns on that.

Oh, I had it the wrong way round.

There is a pattern on this wrapping paper.

Can you tell me what the pattern is? That's right.

It's stripes; blue, gold, blue, gold.

So they can wrap the present up.

Oh.

It's not quite big enough.

I think we better help them find some better wrapping paper.

Ooh, this looks like nice wrapping paper.

This is the wrapping paper brother finger chose.

He was describing the pattern to sister finger and he was telling her the pattern is yellow, red, yellow, red, yellow, red, yellow, red, yellow, red.

What do I need next? Yellow.

And I could just keep on going couldn't I with my yellows and my reds because the pattern doesn't change.

It just stays the same down the whole piece of wrapping paper.

Sister finger chose some paper too though.

And she liked this pattern.

Is it the same as the other pattern? It's not, is it? And it's also our first pattern that doesn't have stripes, but there is still a repeat to it.

It goes, if we go across the top line; green, purple, green, purple, green, purple, green, purple, green.

And if we went down the sides, if we went down the lines, we could have green spot, purple spots, green spot, purple spot, green spot, purple spot all the way down.

Now I recreated brother finger's paper, didn't I? His repeating pattern on his paper.

And I've started with sister finger's one as well.

What colour do I need next? I do, I need a green.

What colour would go under this green I wonder? Have a look back at the wrapping paper.

That's right.

I need purple and then green and then purple, green, purple.

And now I've started to make sister finger's pattern.

Did you like making patterns? Oh no.

Well, I don't know which wrapping paper the finger family chose, but I bet that present looked great, which ever one they chose.

Now though, it's time for you to do some talking about patterns.

Let's have a look at the patterns I've chosen for you to talk about.

Here they are, lots and lots of lovely patterns.

And each time we describe a pattern, we're going to start our sentence with the pattern is.

So let me tell you for the top pattern.

The pattern is red, blue, red, blue.

Oh, it's not, is it? It started with a blue.

Sorry, I must have confused, you.

I need to look more closely don't I? That's a good tip for you.

Look closely when you're describing your pattern.

So let me start again.

The pattern is blue, red, blue, red, blue, red, blue, red.

Hey, I got to the end of my pattern, but if my pattern went on even further, the next one would surely be blue.

Hmm.

Let me start you off on the next one.

But then I want you to describe it to me.

The pattern is green, red.

Okay.

Next one, the pattern is pink, black.

Well done, but you know, all we've described so far are the colours.

Really? I think we're ready to describe the shapes as well.

Have a go on the next one.

One with the orange and blue spots.

Remember to start with the pattern is.

Go ahead.

Wow.

The pattern is orange spot, blue spot, orange spot, blue spot, orange spot, blue spot, orange spot, blue spot.

Well done.

Try again on the next one.

The pattern is green square.

You're really good at this.

The pattern is green square, yellow square, green square, yellow square, green square, yellow square.

I could just keep going and going and going couldn't I? Let's try the next one.

Yeah, the pattern is red spot, yellow spot, red spot, yellow spot, red spot, yellow spot, red spot, yellow spot.

You're really good at describing patterns.

You've been super at describing patterns so far.

So I think we're ready to move on to deepen your understanding of patterns.

I've made a pattern here.

It's a colour pattern.

In my colour pattern, does it matter that the objects are slightly different? I've used chess pieces this time.

Does it matter that they're different sizes in my colour pattern? I've got black, white, black, white, black, white, black, white, irrespective of whether they're a knight or a pawn haven't I? So I don't think that the size matters, If I've got a colour pattern.

I'm going to make some size patterns.

I put some cubes here.

I've got small cube, big cube, small cube, big cube, small cube, big cube, small cube, big cube, small cube, big cube, small cube.

This isn't a colour pattern.

This is a size pattern.

Small, big, small, big, small, big, the pattern is a size pattern.

The pattern is small, big, small, big, small.

So did the colour matter here? Not really did it.

I could just as easily change my blue cubes for some small orange ones and we would still have the pattern big, small, big, small, big, small, big, small, big, small.

There are other ways we can make patterns too.

What's about clap, click, clap, click, clap, click.

Can you do that one? Clap, click, clap, click, clap, click.

There are so many ways we can make patterns.

And as long as we describe what the pattern is like a size pattern or a colour pattern.

Sometimes size and colour.

It doesn't matter in all patterns.

Well, I'd like you to spend a little bit of time describing these patterns, but more importantly, I'd like you with them colouring pencils and that paper you got at the beginning of the lesson to pause the video and copy at least one.

That means I'd really like more than one copied.

Remember to play the video again when you're finished, see you in a few.

Thanks for coming back to me.

I wonder which pattern you chose to copy.

Did you make it clear if they were a big thing or a little thing? Did you copy the colours too? I hope you did.

And I really hope you're starting to notice patterns where ever you are now, but just before we say goodbye, I've got one last challenge for you.

I've been busy whilst you were colouring in, making a pattern of my own, but I did miss you.

And I do you need your help, because I think I've made a mistake.

It's okay.

I'm not going to cry.

We all make mistakes.

We're learning.

And I know with your help, I can put it right.

So my pattern, what was my pattern? Black, red, black, red, black, red, black.

Oh, what should that one be? I don't think it should be black.

The pattern is black, red, black, red, black, red, black, black, black, red.

Does it even sound right, did it? Can I fix it? Oh, this one should be not blue.

Red, this one should be red.

Well, let me just change that.

And ah, I've got a black that I don't need.

I'll pop that down there.

Aha, you helped me fix my pattern.

You saw what was wrong with it and you helped me put it right.

Thank you.

Now it is time to say goodbye, but first on this lovely patterned gift tag, I need to write the address and the name of the person, getting the present for the finger family.

And I need to decide, well, if I'm going to wear my patterned hat to go to the party, if I'm going to have a little nap on my patterned cushion, sounds quite tempting.

I need to decide if I'm going to go shopping with my patterned bag.

I like this pattern.

It depends which way the bears are facing.

Or whether I'm going to go and play chess.

If you'd like to share your work from today's lesson on patterns with me and everybody at Oak National, maybe you could ask your parent or carer to share it on social media and the details for doing that are all down there.

Me and the finger family, we'd love to check it out and me and the finger family are going to wave.

Bye, bye.