Quilts and Patterns

Daily Question: Do you know what a quilt is?

A quilt is a blanket composed of a pattern (repeated design).

Toys:  Dinosaurs and Zhu Zhu/Baby Zhus and Kung Zhus and village, cars, Pizza Store, Nursery

Snack: Popcorn, dried apple slices, pretzels, Apple Jacks (for patterning, AB-orange and green)

We had fun listening to microwave popcorn and making our "pah" p popping sounds and then gobbling up the warm fluffy snack. 

We then practiced more patterning with straight and curved pretzels. ABABAB. 

Our Class (Paper) Quilt.

Miss Jessica led us in a fun patterning activity where each student helped choose the correct color for a class "Paper Quilt."  We practiced an A-B-C pattern. red-yellow -blue. 

Outdoor Recess: Played outside in the sand pile and on the slides and with the ride on toys.


Q and Pattern Review: We enjoyed coloring the Q page and talking about "q" words: quail, quilt, queen, and question. We learned that q has a best friend "u. "

We had a fun time looking at quilts and talking about AB patterns.

At Snack Time, we learned about simple patterns (something that repeats it's self). An AB pattern would be something like red, blue, red, blue. An ABC pattern is illustrated below: blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, strawberry. By learning patterns, children will better look for them in life and in Mathematics.

Next, we studied a mini quilt that was an example of an AB pattern. See it?
(red, pink, red, pink).

We talked more about quilts. "What is a quilt?" A quilt is a blanket made of two pieces of fabric with a layer of cotton batting in between, all stitched firmly together, usually in a decorative design or pattern.


We learned about Q a Queen Bee who quilts. She needs quiet so she can finish her quilt. "Q-q-q" she quivers as she quilts. She finishes her quilt at a quarter past ten. (Students pretend to quilt and move a needle in and out of a piece of imaginary fabric saying "q-q-q.")

We had a white board discussion about q and her friend u. Together, qu makes a "kwah" sound. Words like this are: quail (a small bird), quake, quiet!, queen, quilt, etc.

Story Time: We enjoyed reading The Quilt Story together. In this story, a mother makes a special quilt for her young daughter with shooting stars, hearts, doves, and her daughter's name, Abigail, embroidered on it. Abigail loves the quilt and plays with it and takes it across the plains when her family joins pioneers to find a new home. Later, it is put in the attic of her new home where various animals enjoy it's warmth. Many years later, her granddaughter finds it in the attic and asks her mother to repair and fix the special quilt for her and is comforted again by the warm quilt.

Other Quilt Stories:

The Quilt Story by Tony Johnson, Ill. by Tomie dePaola

The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau, Ill. by Gail de Marken

The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills (Little Brown and Co.) Good Read Aloud, not an easy reader.

The Kindness Quilt by Nancy E. Wallace PCL

Cassie Word Quilt by Faith Ringold PCL

Arts and Crafts: Today, students worked on an Qq pattern quilt like the Queen Bee was quilting while saying the letter q and it's sound.

Students completed an AB quilt pattern.

Pattern Book:
Patterns and Animagicals; Paintings by Svetlan Janakovic, Poems by Carol Diggory Shields

Quilts Book:
Grandpa's Quilt by Betsy Franco and Linda A. Bild  (Rookie Reader)
The Quiltmaker's Gift (Quilt designs on the inside covers of book) by Jeff Brumbeau and Gail de Marcken
The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston and Tomie DePaola
(New) Quilt of States; Piecing Together America by Adrienne Yorinks, etc.

The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills