Pattern, Rhyme and Rhythm: The Third Unit of Inquiry

In class 2o we are working on our third Unit of Inquiry.

The Central Idea for this unit is:

Pattern, Rhyme and Rhythm are found in many forms of creative expression

We will follow these lines of inquiry:

• How pattern, rhyme and rhythm work
• How pattern, rhyme and rhythm are connected
• How we can express ourselves using pattern, rhyme and rhythm.

This unit gives us the opportunity to identify, explore and explain pattern in art, music, poetry, dance, language and mathematics. We will be reading lots of poetry and delving into the enthralling stories of Dr Seuss and Julia Donaldson. We will explore rhythm through music, movement and language, and find out how knowing more about rhyme and patterns in language can help with reading and spelling. Students will be encouraged to look for patterns all around them and to bring their findings to school as part of News Time which will usually be on Wednesdays. I will be asking the children to bring in books and music to share with the class and to notice the patterns on the clothes which they are wearing.

Mrs Horsford asked me to include this message:

In our unit on Pattern, Rhyme and Rhythm we will look at patterns in language such as endings, plurals, making poems, adjectives in writing and blends. You will be seeing the blends in their red handwriting Homework book. When we look at Pattern, Rhyme and Rhythm in maths we will look at symmetry, repeating number patterns, patterns in adding and subtracting, number patterns bigger than 100, sequencing, number arrays and more.

The children will be also start to bring home a small blue spelling book in a plastic sleeve with a list of words they should be starting to manage in their daily writing.. Each time we write they will be given one word that they are close to mastering. Please find two minutes to let them write this word two times and bring it back each day with the plastic sleeve.

Happy Pattern, Rhyme and Rhythm searching in our world. The children may like to start to wear patterned clothes to school if they find some. I will be.

Regards

Mrs. Horsford

One of the first activities we have undertaken was to work with a partner on a "Rhyme Hunt" using one of the fabulous selection of books we have in the classroom.The children were given the challenge to find as many rhyming pairs as they could.

Click on the slide show to see the partners at work.





One afternoon the children worked to create repeating patterns using plastic cubes. Their enthusiasm and engagement was amazing.