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Assessment Activities
Our series of assessment activities is built around the Queensland Number
Developmental Continuum. Each activity covers a range of outcomes
(and indicators), which simplify the teacher's task of reporting on a child's
progress to parents and school. In the example below, the outcomes covered are:
- counts rationally
- describes and creates auditory, movement and/or visual patterns involving
two elements
- represents number from 0 to 10
Python Patterns
Teacher Guide
The activity uses cards printed with sections of the python's body, with 0,
1, 2 or 3 spots.
Allow time for the children to play with and explore the
python pattern cards before presenting the page to them. Show the children the
first pattern and ask them to copy it with the cards and to extend the length of
the python. Don’t give any hints at this stage, but observe to see if the
children:
- use a guess and check approach with no thought about the number of spots
to use,
- link the number of spots with the instruction to make the python longer,
- Correctly identify and use the 1, 2, 1, 2, pattern to extend the python.
If necessary ask the children if they can see a repeating
pattern in the python pieces and then to record the pattern in numbers in the
spaces on the page.
Now ask the children to make a python to match the number
pattern shown on the page, noting their ability to interpret the number pattern
into python pieces.
The children can then make and label a pattern of their own.
This will allow you to note the degree of complexity that they can bring to the
task. In fact, you can ask them to make a tricky pattern for you to continue.
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