On page 489, we would read the story problem and then figure out what information we are trying to find. We want to find how the amount of rainfall changed from September to December. We are going to use the information in the green box that tells us how much rain fell during each of those months. We are going to fill out the bar graph using this information. Since we are talking about rainfall we would put Rainfall as our title on the top line of the bar graph. Along the side it is showing numbers and these are the Amount of rainfall in inches. Notice they have already filled that in for you. Look at the bottom and those are the months that the rain fell so we can put Months on the line or Months Rain Fell. Now we need to put the bars in the graph. In September 4 inches fell so we would fill in four of the boxes. In October 3 inches fell so we would fill in three boxes. In November only 2 inches fell so we would fill in.....2 boxes. Finally, in December only 1 inch fell so we would fill in 1 box. Now looking at the bar graph what can we say happened to the rainfall over the four months? It looks like the rainfall decreased or was 1 inch less than the month before. It decreased by one inch every month. You would write a sentence like that on the line that says, "The amount of rainfall______________"

Now on page 490 we are going to do the same thing. Read the story problem and see what they are wanting to find out. We want to find out how the height of the plant changed from May 1 to May 22. What is the information we need to use? It would be the information in the orange chart, which is how many inches did the plant grow from week to week. On the title we could put something like Plant Growth. Along the side we see numbers so this would probable be the inches the plant grew so a good label would be amount of inches. Down along the bottom of the graph we see the different week in May so our label could be Weeks or Weeks in May. Once we have everything labeled we can start putting in the bars for the bar graph. Look at the information in the orange box. It shows that May 1st the plant was 2 inches high, so we are going to fill in two boxes above May 1. Now on May 8th, the plant was 3 inches high, so we need to fill in three boxes above the words May 8. On May 15th the plant was 5 inches tall, so we would fill in five boxes above the words May 15. Finally on May 22nd, it shows that the plant was 7 inches so we would fill in 7 boxes above May 22. Now looking at the bar graph what can we tell about the height of the plant? The height of the plant grew every week. The first week it grew 1 inch and then each week after that the plant grew 2 inches each week. On the line we can put all that information or just say that the plant grew at least an inch or two each week. You will be doing the next two pages on your own. You may need to ask your parents for help or have them look over your answers.

You can either cut out the heart and write on the back of it all the things you love about your mom.....Or you can leave it like that and write the reasons you love your mom all the way around it. You can color the heart and make it pretty.

I don't have a copy of the All About Mom Chart but fill it out and color the pictures. Make it something special. Then don't forget to hide all these things away until Sunday!!!

Your card may have something different on it but cut along the outside dark black lines. You should have a rectangle shape. Fold your card in half the hamburger way. The picture should be on the outside. Now write a nice message to your mom and wish her Happy Mother's Day. You can color the out side or add some more pictures to the outside and inside of the card. Don't forget to thank your mom for all she does for you.

Have a great day. I will talk to you again tomorrow.