Patterns in Fruits and Vegetables
Students will predict, examine and record the patterns in a variety of fruits and vegetables.variety of fruits and vegetables cut up into enough pieces for every child cucumber, oranges, apples, onions, etc. variety of whole, uncut fruits and vegetables recording sheet Hold up whole vegetable or fruit and ask children to predict what inside looks like. Children draw their predictions on recording sheet After every fruit and vegetable has been recorded by each child, distribute the cut-up fruit and vegetables (one type at a time). Ask children to record what the inside actually looks like. Eat!

Patterns in Nature Booklet
Students will examine patterns on objects in nature, then use rubbings of these patterns to create pattern booklets. natural objects that have texture walnuts, leaves, gourds, rocks, shells, corn, pine cones, etc. paper for booklet pages pencils, crayons, chalk (for rubbing) Explain how rubbings can be a way to record textures. Demonstrate how to do a rubbing (place paper on item, use pencil, crayon, or chalk to color the area that the item is under). Show all the items that you came up with that have textures. Have children do rubbings of items provided, or of items found on their own. Ask children to make a title page for booklet. Staple all the rubbings as well as the title page together to form a booklet.

2-D Shape Pattern Placemats

Students will identify and form a pattern out of 2-D shapes, then will transfer this pattern into creating placemats. fabric scraps cut into a variety of shapes, and thrown randomly into bins or boxes. fabric in 8.5 X 11 rectangles (approx.), one per student (will act as the 'placemat') good craft or white glue paper On the chalkboard/chart-paper draw all the shapes that are available in the fabric scraps. Ask students to draw a pattern using these shapes on a piece of paper. Shapes can be used more than once, and not all shapes need to be used (eg. triange-triangle-circle-square, triangle-triangle-circle-square...). Divide class into groups, with the appropriate number of bins of fabric shapes. Hand out the 8.5 X 11 fabric rectangles (soon to be placemat). Ask students to transfer the pattern that they drew to their 'placemats' using the small fabric shapes. The fabric shapes will form a border around the edge of the 'placemat' when glued down. Will take about a half-day to dry.