options: Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.

Work with time and money.

Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.

Tell and write time.

Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.

Geometric measurement: understand concepts of angle and measure angles.

Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.

Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects.

Relate addition and subtraction to length.

Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.

Describe and compare measurable attributes.

Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.

Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures.

Represent and interpret data.

Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition.
problem_activity: Task
Materials
Completed monthly weather recording sheet
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Crayons
Sentence strips with frames (see below)
Student worksheet
Actions
Every day for a month the students record the weather by shading in an appropriate box on the recording sheet (attached).
At the completion of a month of school, the teacher projects the completed recording sheet using a document projector (if working with the whole class) or shows it to the students (if working in a small group setting).
The teacher asks the students to count how many days in the month each type of weather occurred, writing the number by the type of weather.
The teacher or another student asks questions like these:
How many rainy days did we have this month?
How many more rainy days did we have than sunny days?
How many days did we record the weather?
Students compose answers to the questions using sentence frames like these:
In September there were ___  ______ days
There were ___ more ________ days than ________ days
There were ___ fewer _________ days than _______ days
We recorded ____ days of weather altogether.
Both numbers and types of weather are used to fill in the blanks.  Students pair up and share an idea for each sentence frame; then the teacher chooses a student to fill in one of the frames orally, while it is recorded onto the sentence frame.
The students copy the data from the recording sheet onto their worksheet to create their own graph. The teacher may need to model this for the students the first time they do it.
The students choose a sentence based on the completed frames to match each of the weather pictures given.  So, for the sunny picture a student could write, "There were 5 more sunny days than rainy days," or "There were 12 sunny days in September."  The frame of "We recorded ___ days of weather altogether" could be stated orally, or added at the bottom of the recording sheet to be filled in. The teacher may need to model this for the students the first time they do it.


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