Grade 1, Month 1, The Wonder of Patterns
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Your will guide your child to experiment with the building blocks of numeracy and literacy in the form of geometric shapes and lines. Multicultural storytelling will form the basis from which lessons will emerge. This first unit forms the foundation for academic learning for the 6-year-old and will cover ideas around personal responsibility, harnessing creativity, and placing learning at the heart of the human experience.
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Curriculum Areas/Learning Outcomes
Math: Concept: Repeating elements in patterns can be identified.
Connection: This unit you and your child will be looking around for patterns in everyday things.
Concept: Objects and shapes have attributes that can be described, measured, and compared.
Connection: You will review and discuss patterns you observe.
Language Arts: Concept: Curiosity and wonder lead us to new discoveries about ourselves and the world around us.
Connection: Stories that you tell in this unit will be about the world around us, for example, the wind. Your child will begin to notice that there are shapes and transformation in everything! A spiral in a shell, a spiral in my thumb print, a spiral on the snail’s back…
Concept: Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy.
Connection: Throughout this month you will tell stories to your child and use a variety of verses and songs too.
Social Studies: Concept: Our rights, roles, and responsibilities are important for building strong communities
Connection: Give your child some responsibility for holding the form of the morning lesson. Encourage your child to share stories about their role in the morning lesson to their neighbour/ aunt/pet…this will set them up to see how vital they are to the community later on.
Connection: This unit you and your child will be looking around for patterns in everyday things.
Concept: Objects and shapes have attributes that can be described, measured, and compared.
Connection: You will review and discuss patterns you observe.
Language Arts: Concept: Curiosity and wonder lead us to new discoveries about ourselves and the world around us.
Connection: Stories that you tell in this unit will be about the world around us, for example, the wind. Your child will begin to notice that there are shapes and transformation in everything! A spiral in a shell, a spiral in my thumb print, a spiral on the snail’s back…
Concept: Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy.
Connection: Throughout this month you will tell stories to your child and use a variety of verses and songs too.
Social Studies: Concept: Our rights, roles, and responsibilities are important for building strong communities
Connection: Give your child some responsibility for holding the form of the morning lesson. Encourage your child to share stories about their role in the morning lesson to their neighbour/ aunt/pet…this will set them up to see how vital they are to the community later on.
Curriculum Overview
The Wonder of Patterns is a funny name, but quite literally means that you and your child will be telling stories of and with Patterns and forms. What are patterns and forms? When you think about it, patterns exist in everything in nature and forms make up all the letters and numbers that we use today. There is the straight line and the curved line and all the ways that these two friends interact. By spending four weeks exploring patterns and forms through imaginative pictures, you have a place to focus on routines and rhythms for home learning, your expectations for school time in your home such as where, when, and how. And by focusing deeply on the patterns and forms, you get to also focus on the ‘form’ of your child’s posture, pencil grip, quality of work, and habits. You will also get to ease into the start of the year since there is no studying to do, you’re welcome!
Parent Preparation
To prepare to bring this unit, go out and get excited about the horizon! Have a look at what is around you, notice the features of your landscape and the patterns and forms they create as they contrast with the sky. Imagine the line of the sun as it moves across the sky, see the shape of the wave as it meets the sand, the shape of the trees as they meet the sky or reflect on the lake. You will focus on straight and curved lines, running lines, and patterns. You will save 3D forms, mirror forms, and geometric forms for later.