A playful first patterns lesson for Reception children. Little learners warm up with a copying game, learn that a pattern must repeat, hunt for patterns around the room as Pattern Detectives, fix muddled patterns and build their own creations in the Pattern Factory. It is a ready-to-teach PowerPoint scaffold for an hour-long lesson on repeating patterns, written straight to the child with encouragement on every slide. Covers colour, sound, shape and movement patterns, with a thumbs-up sorting game and a quick quiz to finish.