ABB Pattern with Feelings

Keep the ABB pattern going. On this Kindergarten worksheet a unit of three feelings repeats — the first picture once, the second twice — and the child completes the blanks by extending the rule. Reading a pattern where the trailing picture doubles, and distinguishing it from one where the lead doubles, is meaningful patterning: the readiness skill of spotting the exact rule and carrying it forward. Familiar pictures like happy, sad and surprised faces keep it about the pattern.

Reading a pattern where the trailing picture comes twice asks a child to track a three-part unit and notice it is the second element that repeats. That precision is genuine patterning readiness, and a doubled-second feelings pattern keeps the practice concrete — nothing to count, just the rule to extend.

Children who catch the ABB beat — one picture, then a doubled second — get sharper at noticing exactly which picture repeats, and a finished train is satisfying, proof that patient, close looking really pays off. When this feels easy, try the pattern in abb pattern with farm animals, or abb pattern with furniture. You can also browse every pattern worksheet or the whole kindergarten collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more doubled-pattern trains a child finishes, the readier they are for longer, four-part patterns that build on these doubled beats, one rung further along.