# Day 48 · A weather pattern is not every season

**Useful job:** Make a carefully bounded local-source question or longer-pattern caption. **Target:** U02 partial daily/longer pattern scope, H01/I01/I04/I05/I06. Whole real local seasons and culturally authorised seasonal knowledge remain open.

**Source/preparation:** C15/C16 complete invented longer records and the adult P2 station-statistics fact if wanted. No child arithmetic, year-count decoding or climate threshold test. Local factual checking is adult-owned and optional; the complete paper route remains available.

**Six moves:** (1) Read C15's limited repeated month records, distinguishing original fiction from P2's dated station fact. (2) Ask for one repeated relation in the story. (3) Model with C16: the new exception and older pattern can coexist, with no supplied cause. (4) Choose a route below and preserve any own future idea before the separate ordinary result. (5) Ask what more would be needed for the child's actual local seasonal question rather than claim a few records answer it. (6) End with a useful question, not a generic four-season label or an invented First Nations calendar.

### Route 48.1 · Long-record caption studio

Use C15. Child creates a caption “in these notes” and one useful unknown. Add a picture or spoken label that keeps the reported job choices distinct from an actual child visit. Do not colour months into universal Australian seasons.

Say: “Tell the story these notes support.”

### Route 48.2 · Local fact, different question

Adult reads the complete P2 card. Child asks what a station's old average can help us wonder about and what it cannot tell about this afternoon. Adult checks any new local replacement separately; child need not visit a website or calculate an average.

Say: “This is old information from one station. What would you still ask about today?”

### Route 48.3 · Make room for a surprise

Read C16 first stage, save a wanted next idea or record it declined, then open its separate complete later note. Child keeps both records, compares honestly and chooses a further question. A changed result earns no guessing penalty.

Say: “The new clue can differ. Do we need to change our idea?”

**Small check/next:** Bounded repeated relation/exception or source question, not whole-climate mastery. Use C15 for universal-month claims, C16 for erasing old evidence, C06 for current forecast versus old statistics. **Exit:** “Which source would help with your particular question?”

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