The Grade 2 class in Millarville Community School has been very busy this month doing an inquiry into patterning. Our central idea is “people use patterns everyday”.
One of our students brought in a book about patterns and we picked our favourite set of patterns. The artist whose work we chose had a website listed so we emailed him in the U.K. to tell him how much we enjoyed his patterning work. He emailed us back and answered all of our questions about how he makes patterns. Then we Skyped our new friend and had a discussion with him about patterning. For our second Skype with Mr. Dutton, we were thrilled to have him show us how to draw our favourite character in his patterning work. Since our art lesson we have been doing a lot of drawing and a lot of patterning with Mr. Dutton's character who we call “Cheeky Monkey”. If you are interested in Mr. Dutton's work, our class would encourage you to visit his website at:
www.ianduttondesigns.com
Here are some of the things that we have discovered about patterns so far:
- There are only three types of patterns: repeating, increasing and decreasing.
- Patterns are everywhere, in math, in art, in nature, in buildings, everywhere you look.
- Math patterns help us to make sense of numbers.
- Patterns give us information.
- Patterns can make math easier.
- Art patterns look nice.
We wish everyone a Happy Holiday! Best wishes for all that is good in the New Year from the Grade 2's in Millarville Community School.
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