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Seasons and Daylight Worksheets for 1st Graders

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Hours of daylight in each season, coloring the daylight hours, a daylight bar graph, a year-long daylight record, sorts and a reading passage.

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Daylight in each season

A chart of the daylight hours in each season and a page to color them in.

Graph and record daylight

Read a bar graph of daylight through the year and keep a year-long light or dark record.

Long days and short days

A reading passage, a summer or winter sort, a true or false check and a drawing page.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these seasons and daylight worksheets

In 1st grade, children connect the seasons to something they can notice for themselves: how long it stays light. In summer it can still be light after dinner. In winter it may be dark when they wait for the bus.

These seasons and daylight worksheets make that pattern easy to see. A chart shows a day as 24 boxes, one for each hour, with the daylight hours white and the night hours grey. Children color the daylight hours for each season, read a bar graph of daylight through the year, and keep a record of light and dark at the same two times each month.

A short reading passage, a summer or winter sort, a true or false page and a drawing page round out the topic. Pages print on US Letter or A4, and pages with right answers have an answer key on page 2.

Standards

  • NGSS 1-ESS1-2Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.C.4Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.1Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.8With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

How to use them

  1. Show the daylight chart and count the white boxes for each season together.
  2. Use the color the daylight page as a follow-up. Have children start coloring at noon and work outward.
  3. Start the daylight record in September and keep it going through June. Look outside at the same two clock times each month.
  4. Use the bar graph page to practice reading a graph and comparing two months.

Teaching tips

  • The hours on these pages are for the middle of the United States. Farther north, summer days are longer and winter days shorter; farther south, the difference is smaller.
  • Daylight saving time moves the clock, not the sun. Keep looking at the same clock times all year, and talk about the March and November jumps if children notice them.
  • Use season words with the dates on the chart: spring starts about March 20, summer about June 21, fall about September 22 and winter about December 21.
  • Never look straight at the sun. Children notice daylight by looking at the sky and the ground, not at the sun itself.

Questions teachers and parents ask

Which season has the most daylight?

Summer. In the middle of the United States, the first day of summer has about 15 hours of daylight and the first day of winter has about 9. Spring and fall have about 12 hours, about the same as the night.

Why do the hours on the pages say about?

Daylight changes a little every day and depends on where you live. The pages round to the nearest hour for the middle of the United States so the pattern is easy to see.

How is this different from the kindergarten seasons pages?

Kindergarten pages name the four seasons and what changes in each. These 1st grade pages focus on how the amount of daylight changes through the year.