Growing or Repeating?!

When we talk about skip counting with our kids, we explain how the numbers “grow”.  Before we get too deep into “growing numbers”, we illustrate this concept by talking about growing patterns.  Since my kids were having a little trouble understanding the difference between growing and repeating, we practiced the concept every morning {quickly} during our morning meeting and then completed this fun little activity the following week in their math tubs.  I gave them a tub full of cardstock pattern blocks and instructed them to create two repeating patterns and two growing patterns.  Then we hung them up in the classroom as a visual reinforcement!!  This really helps my sweet babies who are still having difficulty understanding number patterns :)