Ideas for Teaching and Documenting

Encourage children to discuss naturally occurring patterns in the environment and ask questions that encourage reflection, clarifications, or more detailed descriptions, such as, “What do you think will come next in the pattern?” or “Could we make a pattern that is the same but use different colors?” or “How is this one different from/the same as that one?” 

Follow up activities with opportunities for children to reflect on or represent what they have discovered in their play, through discussion, drawing, and simple graphing (e.g., graphing the different types of animals we saw on our community walk, or looking at family pictures and discussing similarities/differences).

This information is also available in the ELS Guide Book for future reference.