Today, we're going to learn how to make our robot create amazing patterns! We see patterns everywhere—on our clothes, in the floor tiles, and in our favorite songs. A pattern is a rule that repeats. Our robot loves to follow rules, and today it will follow a set of instructions to make a colorful pattern.

Materials Needed:

• Worksheet: A handout with a series of empty boxes in a single, long row.

• Colored Objects: Two or three different colors of small objects, like pom-poms, LEGO bricks, or even colored tokens. These will be your "code blocks."

Begin the lesson by showing the students some examples of patterns in the classroom.

Point to the stripes on a shirt, the sequence of colours on a box of crayons, or the pattern of tiles on the floor.

Ask them what they see that repeats. This helps them connect the idea of a pattern to the real world.

This game helps children spot a repeating rule and say what comes next.

Show the strip to the class. Read it aloud together in rhythm. “Red, blue, red, blue…” Point left to right. Pause at the blank box. Ask, “What comes next?”

Invite one child to tap their answer. If it’s right, cheer and restate the rule. If it’s wrong, reread the strip together and try again.

Start simple with two colours and three boxes. Grow to four or five boxes, then try three colours.

Ask thinking questions: “What repeats?”, “How do you know?”, “Does the rule change if we start here?”

Now you can repeat this process with a different patterns using the generator below!

On the whiteboard, draw a short pattern: a red dot, then a blue dot.

Under it, write the “code”: red → blue.

Repeat that pair two more times in a neat row so it reads red–blue, red–blue, red–blue.

Circle each pair and count together: “one time, two times, three times.” Ask, “What keeps repeating?” and “What would come next?”