Patterns in Smiley Shark

9th January 2026
Nursery

In Bumblebees pre-school class this week, we have been focusing on repeating patterns as part of our ‘White Rose Maths’ lessons,

In our chosen book of the week, ‘Smiley Shark’, the character befriends an angelfish with a patterned body. We replicated this by creating striped patterns on fish-shaped cutouts.

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