AB Pattern with Feelings

On this Kindergarten pattern sheet, feelings repeat two-by-two in an AB pattern — one picture, then another, then the first again — and the child places pictures in the blank wagons to extend it. Reading that two-part repeat and predicting the next picture is early patterning, the core readiness skill of finding and following a rule. Familiar pictures like happy, sad and surprised faces keep the focus on the alternating pattern.

The skill an AB pattern builds is prediction from a rule — the child sees the start of the sequence and works out what must come next. For Kindergarten that is core readiness thinking, and a clean two-picture alternation of feelings rehearses it without numbers, keeping the focus on the repeating rhythm.

Children who get the hang of the AB back-and-forth start predicting the next picture at a glance, and finishing a clean alternating train feels satisfying, a small and clear early win. When this feels easy, try the pattern in ab pattern with farm animals, or ab 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 two-part patterns a child completes, the readier they are for patterns where a picture starts to double — the natural next step up the ladder.