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Week 4: Patterns and Sizes

Week 4 mixes thinking skills with fine motor practice: patterns, sizes, and scissors. Expect some wobbly cutting and plenty of learning.

What your child is practicing

Continuing simple patterns
Comparing sizes (biggest and smallest)
Cutting along lines with scissors

This week's worksheets

Printable pattern worksheet with rows of repeating shapes and blank boxes for a child to draw what comes next

Thinking Skills
~10 min

Finish the Pattern

Extend AB, AAB, and ABB patterns, then make your own.

Printable worksheet with rows of three shapes in different sizes for circling the biggest or smallest

Early Math
~8 min

Big and Small

Circle the biggest or smallest object in each row.

Printable cutting practice worksheet with dashed straight, zigzag, and wavy lines and a square, circle, and triangle to cut out

Fine Motor
~10 min

Cutting Practice

Cut along straight, zigzag, wavy, and curved lines, then cut out three shapes.

Printable worksheet with a scattered mix of shapes and boxes for writing how many of each

Thinking Skills
~10 min

Count and Sort

Count each kind of shape in a mixed-up picture and write how many.

Printable worksheet with rows of shapes where one is different in size, shape or direction

Thinking Skills
~8 min

Same and Different

Look at each row and circle the shape that is different.

Printable worksheet with three wavy paths for a child to follow from a green dot to a star

Fine Motor
~8 min

Follow the Path

Draw a line along each path from the dot to the star without leaving the lines.

Try it off paper: Pattern snacks

String cereal rings or beads in an AB pattern, then an AAB pattern. Let your child be the pattern boss and tell you what comes next.

Parent tip

Scissors are a skill like any other. Five minutes of cutting a day beats one long session.