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Materials

variety of snack items (apple slices, orange wedges, dried fruit, raisins, pretzel

sticks, cereal, goldfish crackers)

paper napkins

sentence strips

Instructions

1. Place each type of snack in a separate bowl and give each child a sentence
strip.
2. Invite the children to make patterns on their sentence strips with the food
(for example, pretzel, raisin, raisin; pretzel, raisin, raisin).
3. As the children are making the patterns, go around the classroom and ask
them to talk about the patterns.
4. When each child finishes his pattern, invite him to eat it.

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