Who Is Napping? Describing Pattern in The Napping House by Audrey Wood

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Teachers encourage children to describe the pattern in a favorite story book, The Napping House.
Why is this important?
Children need practice and support to identify what repeats in a pattern. In the case of a growing pattern, it’s a quantitative change that repeats.
BIG IDEAS:
- Identifying the rule of a pattern brings predictability and allows one to make generalizations.
- Patterns are sequences (repeating or growing) governed by a rule; they exist both in the world and in mathematics.