Read a Tiny Weather Record
Use recorded observations to describe what happened.
Supplied materials
- Paper and a pencil, or say your answers aloud.
Learn the idea
An observation tells what someone noticed. A weather record might say sunny, cloudy, or rainy. These words describe what was seen at a certain place and time.
A record can help us count what already happened. It does not promise what tomorrow will be like. Use this fictional record: Monday sunny; Tuesday rainy; Wednesday sunny.
- Ask an adult to read the three-day record.
- Draw a sun for Monday, a raindrop for Tuesday, and a sun for Wednesday.
- Point to and count only the sunny days.
See the method in action
In a two-day record of Monday rainy and Tuesday rainy, there are two rainy days. Both entries have the rainy label.
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2 days
Monday and Wednesday are sunny. Counting those two entries gives two sunny days. Tuesday is rainy and is not part of this sunny-day count.
Take it further
Change Wednesday to cloudy. There is now one sunny day. Explain why the count changed; the revised record tells us nothing certain about Thursday.
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