Winter Patterns Worksheets

About this resource

Winter and Christmas pictures in a pattern, on pages a child can pick up and start. See a pattern,

say it, name it (AB, AAB, ABB or ABC), circle what comes next, draw the next picture, copy a

pattern, fix a wrong picture, or cut and glue. Every page has a big "My name" line, one short

instruction, and big pictures with room to work. Every picture in a pattern is a different kind and

a different color, so a child can go by either one. Untimed: no clock, no score on the page.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (35 pages: 19 student pages, 16 for you)

• 89 practice items on 17 scored student pages, plus Look Together and Draw Your Own; 83 different patterns (28 AB, 19 AAB, 17 ABB, 19 ABC), and no practice pattern repeats, even in other colors
• 8 winter/Christmas pictures (snowflake, mitten, snowman, tree, present, stocking, bell, ornament) in 6 colors, drawn in vector by us, no clip art
• Look Together: AB, AAB, ABB and ABC on four cards, with the part that repeats marked and a "say it out loud" strip (1 page)
• What Comes Next: a row with a ? box; circle the picture that comes next, one of three; AB, then AAB and ABB, then ABC and mixed patterns (18 items, 3 pages)
• Finish the Row: draw the next 2 or 3 pictures in empty boxes (15 items, 3 pages)
• Copy the Pattern: color the outline pictures to match, then draw the same pattern under it (12 items, 3 pages)
• Name the Pattern: circle the name, first one of two and then one of four, then write a letter under each picture (16 items, 3 pages)
• Fix It: one picture in the row is wrong; put an X on it, then draw the right picture (10 items, 2 pages)
• Cut and Glue: six pieces a page; finish each row with the missing pictures, glue each pattern by its name, and fill gaps in a row; 18 pieces in all, 3 pages
• Draw Your Own: make an AB, an AAB and an ABC pattern in rows of 8 boxes (3 rows, 1 page)
• A pattern guide, 2 answer keys (45 rows and 38 rows), a 17-row tracker, a class grid, a team note, a home page with three practice rows, a filled example (an invented student), a phrase and pattern-talk bank (17 starters), a binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label
• Start Here, a how-it-works page and a "What's next" back page

Every Pattern Has One Right Answer

A pattern here is a core (AB, AAB, ABB or ABC) that repeats at least twice in the row shown. On

What Comes Next, Finish the Row and the first Cut and Glue page, the file works out the next

pictures every way the row could be read, and it will not build unless they all agree. On the last

Cut and Glue page it will not build unless the empty boxes can be filled only one way from that

page's pictures. On Fix It it will not build unless exactly one change, using the pictures in that

row, makes the row a pattern. No two practice patterns use the same pictures.

Built For The Child, Not The Office

Every student page has a big "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture (a pencil, a

circle, a book or scissors), rounded cards, and drawing and answer boxes at least half an inch

tall. Everything for you (directions, answer keys, scoring) is on separate teacher pages.

Three Levels, Marked By Dots

One dot: starting (AB patterns, short rows, outlines to color). Two dots: building (AAB and ABB,

drawing the pictures). Three dots: ready for more (ABC, mixed patterns, writing a letter under

every picture). The dots are the only level code, so children at one table are not comparing papers.

Cutting That Is Easy

Cut and Glue A and C have six pieces in a 3 by 2 block, three straight cuts, no gaps, every piece

1.15 inches square. Cut and Glue B has six pieces in a 2 by 3 block, three straight cuts, each 2.8

by 1.1 inches. No piece sits under its own kind of box on the cut page, so cutting straight across

and gluing straight down never gives the answers.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the letter boxes on Name the Pattern C, the tracker, class grid, team note

and home page are type-in fields in any PDF reader; the pictures and cut pieces are always printed.

Every page also prints clean in black and white, and because no two pictures in a pattern look

alike, a photocopy loses nothing. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides, Google Docs or

PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten and first grade teachers, special education and resource room teachers,

interventionists, and anyone who wants their winter pattern practice dressed for the season, with

the tracking and family pages already made.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

An untimed practice set on repeating patterns, with the record-keeping around it. It is not a

timed probe or a goal page, not a full math curriculum, and not a claim about any student's age,

grade level or rate of progress. Patterns are AB, AAB, ABB and ABC only, made of pictures; there

are no number patterns and no growing patterns.

Also From Bright Path Sped

Patterns Worksheets (the same eight page types, no winter dressing), Thanksgiving Patterns

Worksheets (the same patterns skill, dressed for November), Winter Comparing Numbers Worksheets,

and Winter Place Value Worksheets, 2nd Grade.