Growing Patterns

Here's a quick and fun freebie for growing patterns. I got the idea from one of my favorite blogs, A Place Called Kindergarten. We worked on her ice cream scoop idea for growing patterns and then then I had students design their own growing pattern in their math journals. Here's some of my students' work:

And here's the quick simple ice cream sheet, modeled after A Place Called Kindergarten:

Enjoy! And now I'm off to eat a scoop...or 2, or 3, or.....of ice cream!