{"id":640,"date":"2018-05-02T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T16:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=640"},"modified":"2018-05-04T17:03:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T17:03:49","slug":"generating-simple-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/05\/02\/generating-simple-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Generating Simple Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Two different colors of objects (we used blue and yellow&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unifix-Cubes-Package-300-Colors\/dp\/B000PUTNU8\">unifix cubes)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>After introducing simple patterns to your child and having him copy the simple repeating pattern, he may be ready to create his own patterns. We supplied a container of yellow and blue&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unifix-Cubes-Package-300-Colors\/dp\/B000PUTNU8\">Unifix Cubes<\/a>&nbsp;and encouraged the children to create repeating patterns. Simple patterns might be yellow, blue, yellow, blue (ABAB), blue, blue, yellow, yellow (AABB), yellow, yellow, blue, yellow, yellow, blue (AAB).<\/p>\n<p>Once your child is generating his own simple patters with two objects or two different colors, you can increase the level of difficulty by adding three or four objects. &nbsp;Children will begin to see patterns in their environment! &nbsp;Being able to recognize patterns is an important skill for reading and math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Two different colors of objects (we used blue and yellow&nbsp;unifix cubes) Directions After introducing simple patterns to your child and having him copy the simple repeating pattern, he may be ready to create his own patterns. We supplied a container of yellow and blue&nbsp;Unifix Cubes&nbsp;and encouraged the children to create repeating patterns. Simple patterns &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/05\/02\/generating-simple-patterns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Generating Simple Patterns&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}