Georgia K.PAR.6.2
The Standard
Describe patterns involving the passage of time using words and phrases related to actual events.
Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards · Explain, extend, and create repeating patterns with a repetition, not exceeding 4 and describe patterns involving the passage of time.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect familiar events to parts of the day and place them in order. They use before, after, next, yesterday, today, and tomorrow to describe routines that repeat.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given pictures of a familiar routine, a student places them in a sensible order and explains what happens first, next, and last. The student identifies when events happen and which events repeat each day or week.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may reverse before and after or use morning and night interchangeably. They may name events without putting them in order. Some assume every event repeats daily, including birthdays and field trips.
How to Assess It
- Show picture cards of waking up, eating lunch, eating dinner, and sleeping. Have students order them, describe what happens before and after dinner, then name events that repeat tomorrow.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have students arrange picture cards of arrival, lunch, dismissal, and bedtime, then retell the daily sequence using first, next, and last.
Ask: What happens before lunch and after lunch on a school day? Record answers in order on a class timeline.
Play Routine Relay: teams order three daily event cards and earn a point by describing the sequence with time words.
Send home a morning and night chart. Students draw one repeated family event for each time and share the pattern the next day.
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Related Standards
- K.PAR.6
Explain, extend, and create repeating patterns with a repetition, not exceeding 4 and describe patterns involving the passage of time.
- 2.PAR.4
Identify, describe, extend, and create repeating patterns, growing patterns, and shrinking patterns.
- K.PAR.6.1
Create, extend, and describe repeating patterns with numbers and shapes, and explain the rationale for the pattern.
- 1.PAR.3
Identify, describe, extend, and create repeating patterns, growing patterns, and shrinking patterns found in real-life situations.
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