AAB Pattern with Summer

This Kindergarten worksheet shows an AAB pattern of summer things — the first picture appearing twice for every one of the second — and leaves wagons blank for the child to complete. Working out a three-picture repeating unit where the lead picture doubles builds deeper pattern-awareness, the rule-finding readiness skill. The familiar pictures keep every choice about the doubling pattern.

In an AAB pattern the opening picture leads twice before the second appears, so the child listens for a "two-then-one" beat and keeps it running. Learning to track a unit where the lead repeats stretches a young child's attention just past simple alternation, and a summer things version makes the doubled opening easy to follow down the wagons.

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 thanksgiving, or aab pattern with trees. 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.