AB Pattern with Trees

On this Kindergarten pattern sheet, trees 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 an oak, a pine and a palm keep the focus on the alternating pattern.

Patterning begins with the AB pattern: notice the back-and-forth, predict the next. A child who can extend a two-element repeat is building the foundation for harder patterns and for ordered thinking. Using familiar trees keeps every choice about the alternating rule, and the task stays a looking-and-reasoning one, never a counting one.

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 vegetables, or ab pattern with zoo animals. 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.