AAB Pattern with Christmas

Keep the AAB pattern going. On this Kindergarten worksheet a unit of three Christmas things repeats — the first picture twice, then the second — and the child completes the blanks by extending the rule. Reading a pattern where the opening picture doubles before changing is a meaningful step in patterning, the readiness skill of spotting a rule and carrying it forward. Familiar pictures like a tree, a bauble and a stocking keep it about the pattern.

An AAB pattern rewards a child who catches that the first picture takes two turns before the second gets one. Filling the empty wagons means re-running that lead-doubled beat. A Christmas things train keeps the front-loaded repeat vivid, and a child builds a feel for patterns where the opener — not the closer — is the part that doubles.

Children who can hear the AAB beat — the lead picture twice, then one — get quicker at front-loaded patterns, and cracking the front-loaded rhythm feels good and earns a careful ear its reward. When this feels easy, try the pattern in aab pattern with classroom objects, or aab pattern with dinosaurs. You can also browse every pattern worksheet or the whole kindergarten collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and once the doubled-lead beat is easy, a child is ready for ABB, where it is the second picture that doubles instead — the mirror image of this one.