AAB Pattern with Everyday Objects

Keep the AAB pattern going. On this Kindergarten worksheet a unit of three everyday objects 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 key, a button and an umbrella keep it about the pattern.

What makes AAB its own pattern is the front-loaded repeat: the first picture comes as a pair, the second as a single. A child works out the beat and fills the gaps. Practising the doubled-opening rhythm with everyday objects sharpens a young learner's ear for where a repeat sits inside a unit — at the very start, in this case.

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 musical instruments, or aab pattern with post office. 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.