Halloween Candy Makes Perfect Patterns

Happy Belated Halloween! Hoping you had a lovely day with your family. Even a little rain wouldn’t damper our evening. My family had a fabulous Halloween! We equally enjoyed trick or treating with our friends as well as handing out candy. We split our evening spending one hour gathering candy and the other hour handing it out.

I am thankful for the extra hour that daylight saving time provided this morning as everyone needed some extra sleep. I awoke to my son sorting his candy while watching the recorded version of the ending to Game 3 in the World Series. Of course, seeing him sort all his Halloween candy gave me a great idea – have my daughter create patterns. My daughter smiled the entire time as she chose her items to make patterns and while she made her patterns. She made the following patterns ABABAB, ABBABBA, ABCABC and AABAAB using Hersey’s, Reese’s and KitKat candy bars.

Unit one of our kindergarten math curriculum focused on patterns; my daughter must possess the ability to identify, describe, extend and create patterns using concrete objects. It appears she has mastered this particular math skill especially when chocolate is involved!