08/07/2026
📐 Last Friday, I had SO much fun exploring the mysteries of fractals with children who attended a Club Special event at the FRida & freD - Das Grazer Kindermuseum in !
-'.🌿.'-At this event, I read the beautiful book "Mysterious Patterns" by Sarah C. Campbell with photos by Richard P. Campbell, which introduces children to repeating patterns (fractals) and how mathematicians describe them. ಄
The children traced some of these repeating patterns shown in the book with their fingers - mountains, rivers, ferns, flowers, lightning, and even broccoli! We practiced the names of shapes and objects in both English and German and - since we were out on the terrace - searched for examples of these patterns in the nearby garden.
💡 Some of my favorite moments in these kinds of readings are when the children recognize concepts described in the book in the environment around them.
After the reading, I invited the children to draw some of the repeating patterns they had seen, introduced them to the golden rectangle fractal, and the number series. Inspired, they soon entered the "Mathe-Dschungel" in the museum!
Learn more about my English STEM Storytime workshops here:
https://www.saras-science.com/service-workshops/