Worksheet Grade 1 Math
Pinebrook School's Rainy Day Tally: A Grade 1 Data Worksheet
A grade 1 math worksheet where students read a three-category weather tally chart from Pinebrook School and answer questions about totals and differences.
Objectives
- Students will read a tally chart with up to three categories and state the count for each.
- Students will answer how-many-more and how-many-less questions using the chart's data.
Vocabulary
Key words: tally, sunny, cloudy, rainy, more, fewer
Teacher overview
Pinebrook School kept a weather chart by the classroom door at recess each day for ten school days, marking whether it was sunny, cloudy, or rainy so the class could look back at those two weeks later. This worksheet gives students that finished chart, already sorted into three categories, and asks them to read it the way scientists and city workers read rain records, one question at a time. The chart also feeds directly into stormwater lessons later, since rainy days are the days that send water rushing along the curb toward the storm drains. A teacher who wants to extend this worksheet into a short discussion can ask students why knowing the number of rainy days in a month might matter to someone who plans and cares for a city's storm drains.
Student Worksheet
Look at this ten-day weather chart from Pinebrook School. Read it before you answer.
| Weather | Days |
|---|---|
| Sunny | 5 |
| Cloudy | 3 |
| Rainy | 2 |
- Look at the chart. How many days were sunny?
- How many days were rainy?
- How many days were cloudy?
- How many days are on the chart in all?
- How many more sunny days than rainy days?
- How many fewer rainy days than cloudy days?
- Which kind of day happened most?
- Which kind of day happened least?
- Add one more rainy day. How many rainy days now?
- Draw tally marks. Use 5 for sunny. Use 3 for cloudy. Use 2 for rainy. Count all your marks.
From Water for Schools (waterforschools.org). This material is in the public domain (CC0) and may be copied, edited, and shared freely.
Answer Key
- Answer: 5 days. The chart shows 5 sunny days.
- Answer: 2 days. The chart shows 2 rainy days.
- Answer: 3 days. The chart shows 3 cloudy days.
- Answer: 10 days. 5 sunny + 3 cloudy + 2 rainy = 10 days in all.
- Answer: 3 days. 5 sunny days minus 2 rainy days equals 3 more sunny days.
- Answer: 1 day. 3 cloudy days minus 2 rainy days equals 1 fewer rainy day.
- Answer: Sunny. 5 days is the highest count on the chart.
- Answer: Rainy. 2 days is the lowest count on the chart.
- Answer: 3 rainy days. 2 + 1 = 3.
- Answer: 10 tally marks. 5 marks for sunny, 3 marks for cloudy, and 2 marks for rainy adds up to 10 marks total.
Differentiation
Support
Provide a pre-drawn chart with the three category labels and empty boxes already sorted by row, so students only need to count marks rather than sort them into rows themselves.
Extension
Ask students to design an eleventh day, choose which category it belongs to, add it to the chart, and rewrite the answers to items 4, 5, and 6 with the new eleven-day total.
ELL supports
Pair each weather word ("sunny," "cloudy," "rainy") with a simple picture icon next to the tally marks, and allow students to answer items 7 and 8 by pointing to or circling the correct row instead of writing the word.