AAB Pattern with Vegetables

Keep the AAB pattern going. On this Kindergarten worksheet a unit of three vegetables 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 carrot, a pea and a pumpkin keep it about the 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 vegetables 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 vehicles, or aab pattern with fourth of july things. 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.