In the Sky
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The Sky
1 Read the book page
2 Read & Listen
Look at the sky in the day. What color is it? Can you see clouds?
When it's sunny, the sky is blue. Clouds are white or gray.
Sometimes you can see birds and planes. They fly in the sky.
Sometimes when it's sunny and rainy, you can see a rainbow in the sky. How many colors can you see?
A spacecraft goes up into the sky. Then it goes into space. Space is dark and very big.
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Picture 1: Write the word.
2. Picture 2: Write the word.
3. Picture 3: Write the word.
4. Picture 4: Write the word.
5. Picture 5: Write the word.
6. Picture 6: Write the word.
7. A spacecraft goes up into the ____.
8. Then it goes into ____.
9. Space is dark and very ____.
10. Sometimes when it's sunny and rainy, you can see a ____.
At Night
1 Read the book page
2 Read & Listen
At night the sky is dark. You can see the moon. The moon is a big ball of rock.
Sometimes you see a round moon. This is called a full moon.
Sometimes you see different shapes. A thin moon is called a crescent moon.
You can see stars at night, too. Stars are big, hot balls of fire.
They look very little because they are far out in space. Sometimes you can see planets, too.
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. In the day the sky is dark.
2. At night you can see the moon.
3. The moon is a big ball of fire.
4. A round moon is called a full moon.
5. A fat moon is called a crescent moon.
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7. Unscramble: rasst
8. Unscramble: orkc
9. Unscramble: reif
The Sun
1 Read the book page
2 Read & Listen
Do you know the sun is a star? It's our star.
We live on a planet called Earth. Earth goes around the sun.
The sun shines in the sky. It gives our planet light. Don't look at the sun. It isn't good for your eyes.
The sun is very, very hot. It makes our planet warm so we can live here.
We get electricity from the sun! Light from the sun shines on solar panels. This makes electricity.
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. The sun is a …
2. We live on a planet called …
3. Earth goes around the …
4. The sun is very, very …
5. What should you do?
6. Puzzle picture 1
7. Puzzle picture 2
8. Puzzle picture 3
9. Puzzle picture 4
10. Puzzle picture 5
Day and Night
1 Read the book page
2 Read & Listen
Sometimes it's day and sometimes it's night. That's because Earth turns.
When your place on Earth turns toward the sun, you see light from the sun. This is day.
When your place turns away from the sun, you don't see light from the sun. This is night.
Then Earth turns and it's day again.
At night it's dark. It's dark in parks and gardens. It's dark in homes, too.
People make light with electricity or candles. Is it dark when you go to bed?
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Diagram number 1
2. Diagram number 2
3. Diagram number 3
4. Diagram number 4
5. Diagram number 5
6. Earth turns.
7. In the day, you don't see light from the sun.
8. At night you see the sun.
9. People make light with electricity.
Stars
1 Read the book page
2 Read & Listen
Stars can look red, orange, yellow, blue, or white. The sun is a yellow star.
You can see patterns of stars in the sky. The patterns are called constellations.
With a telescope, you can see more stars.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a very big telescope out in space. It takes photos of stars.
A galaxy is lots of stars. There are many millions of stars in one galaxy.
Our galaxy is called The Milky Way.
Old stars don't live for ever, but there are new stars, too!
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Word-search picture 1
2. Word-search picture 2
3. Word-search picture 3
4. Word-search picture 4
5. Word-search picture 5
6. The sun is a … star.
7. Patterns of stars are called …
8. With a … you can see more stars.
9. The Milky Way is our …
Planets
1 Read the book page
2 Read & Listen
A planet goes around a star. Eight planets go around the sun.
The sun and its planets are called the solar system.
The planets are all different. Jupiter is big and Mercury is little.
Venus is hot and Neptune is cold. Saturn has lots of rings.
Many planets have moons. A moon goes around a planet.
Earth has one moon. We call it the moon. Some planets have lots of moons.
The planet Saturn has about 60 moons!
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Planet picture number 1
2. Planet picture number 2
3. Planet picture number 3
4. Planet picture number 4
5. Planet picture number 5
6. Planet picture number 6
7. Planet picture number 7
8. Planet picture number 8
9. ____ planets go around our sun.
10. The sun and its planets are called the ____ system.
11. ____ has lots of rings.
12. Earth has ____ moon.
On the Moon
1 Read the book page
2 Read & Listen
On the moon there's dust and rock. There are tall mountains, and big holes called craters.
There's black space all around, and no blue sky.
There's no weather because there's no sky. It's hot in the day and it's cold at night.
Astronauts can go to the moon. This astronaut is on the moon.
He has a space suit and he breathes air from a tank.
Footprints are on the moon for a million years! There's no wind to blow them away.
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Picture 1: Write the word.
2. Picture 2: Write the word.
3. Picture 3: Write the word.
4. Picture 4: Write the word.
5. Picture 5: Write the word.
6. Picture 6: Write the word.
7. Match and write: Astronauts can go to …
8. Match and write: Astronauts have …
9. Match and write: Astronauts breathe air …
Into Space
1 Read the book page
2 Read & Listen
Astronauts go into space. They go in a spacecraft.
Astronauts can live in space. They live in a space station.
They look at Earth and learn about it.
Spacecraft with no people in them go into space, too.
Some spacecraft take photos of Earth and space.
Some spacecraft go to other planets so we can learn about them.
Maybe one day you can go into space, too!
Vocabulary
3 Look at the activity page
4 Interactive Activities
1. Astronauts go into ____ in a spacecraft.
2. Some spacecraft take ____.
3. Some spacecraft go to other ____.
4. Astronauts live in a space ____.
5. Puzzle picture 1
6. Puzzle picture 2
7. Puzzle picture 3
8. Puzzle picture 4
9. Puzzle picture 5
The Sky Where I Live
Project page
Observe the sky in the day and at night, complete the charts, then find or draw pictures and write sentences about the sky where you live.
Picture Dictionary
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