Weekly Weather Graph

💡 About this activity

🎯 Learning objectives

• Record one weather condition for each day of the week.
• Color one square for each day recorded.
• Count and compare the columns to find which weather condition appeared most often.

🧺 What you need

• Printed activity sheet
• Pencil or crayon
• Colored pencils or crayons for the graph

👣 How to do it

1. Keep the sheet and materials somewhere accessible during the week.
2. Observe the weather with your child and talk about sunshine, clouds, rain, and wind.
3. Show your child how to draw a simple symbol next to the day and tick the box.
4. Invite your child to observe and record one weather condition each day for seven days.
5. At the end of the week, help your child color one square on the graph for each recorded day.
6. Count the columns together and find out which weather condition appeared most often.

🍎 Teaching suggestions

• Observe the weather at about the same time each day.
• If there is more than one weather condition, help your child choose the one they noticed most.
• Draw simple symbols together: a circle for the sun, a cloud, raindrops, or lines for wind.
• Point to each record and then to one square as you count.
• In a group, talk about the weather and make one shared record each day.

🔀 Variations

💬 Talk about it

• What did you notice in the sky today?
• How could you tell it was windy or rainy?
• Which kind of weather appeared most often? How did you find out?
• What happened if two kinds of weather appeared the same number of times?

👀 What to look for

• Notice whether the child records one weather condition for each day.
• Check whether they color one square for each record.
• Listen as they count and compare the columns, including noticing a possible tie.