Build it with your body
Line kids up in a pattern: stand, sit, stand, sit, or arms up, arms down, arms out. The class figures out who comes next and names it with letters, like ABC. Then they build the same pattern with blocks. Moving from bodies to blocks to letters shows that a pattern is a pattern, whatever it's made of.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
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