Patterning Exploring repeating, growing and shrinking patterns! This can be a perfect diagnostic tool before a patterning unit, can be an activity within a patterning unit, or can also be an assessment tool for the end of a patterning unit. This PDF package comes with 4 pages: Page 1: Definition and examples of Repeating, Growing and Shrinking Patterns Page 2: Focus on Repeating Patterns (Drawing the picture that comes next in the pattern/Colouring in different patterns- AB, AAB, ABB, AABB, ABC) Page 3: Focus on Growing Patterns (Drawing the picture that comes next in the growing pattern/Continuing the growing number pattern/Creating their own growing picture and number pattern) Page 4: Focus on Shrinking Patterns (Drawing the picture that comes next in the shrinking pattern/Continuing the shrinking number pattern/Creating their own shrinking picture and number pattern) The Ontario Curriculum Expectations Grade 2: Patterning and Algebra "identify, describe, extend, and create repeating patterns, growing patterns, and shrinking patterns (The Ontario Curriculum, Mathematics, p. 49).