In the

Sky
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Contents

Introduction

1 The Sky

2 At Night

3 The Sun

4 Day and Night

10

5 Stars

12

6 Planets

14

7 On the Moon

16

8 Into Space

18

Activities

20

Project

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Picture Dictionary

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About Read and Discover

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more about the sky!

Sometimes when it's sunny and

rainy, you can see a rainbow in the
sky. How many colors can you see?

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.

A spacecraft
goes up mto
the sky. Then
it goes into
space. Space
is dark and
very big.

+ Go to page 20 for activities.

At Night
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 differcnt 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 spacc. Sometimes
you can see planets, too.

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Go to page 21 for activities.

The sun shines in the sky. It gives

our p lanet light. Don't look at the
sun. It isn't good for your eyes.

The Sun

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
pan eLs. This makes eLectricity .

Do you know the

sun is a star? It's
our star. We live
on a planet called
Earth. Earth goes
around the sun .

+ Go to page 22 far activities.

Dayand Night
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?

+ Go to poge 23 for act ivities.

Stars
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 onc
galaxy. Our galaxy is called The
Milky Way.

~ Old stars don't live

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for ever, but there

are new stars, too!
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Go to page 24 for activities.

Planets
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.

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has about 60 moons!

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+ Go to page 25 for activities.

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 astrona u t is on the moon.
How amazing! He has a space
suit a nd he breathes air
from a tank.
Footprints are on the moon
for 0 million years! There's
no wi nd to blow them awa y.

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!

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.

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Ga ta page 27 far activities.

The Sky

At Night

... Read pages 4- S.

... Read pages 6-7.

sky spacecraft cloud

plane biffI rainbow

1 Write the words.

1 Write true or false.

1 In the day the sky is dark.

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2 At night you can see the moon.

3 The moon is a big ball of fire.

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4 A round moon is called a full moon.

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2 Complete the sentences.

big

5 A fat moon is called a crescent moon .

space

1 A spacecraft goes up into the

Then it goes into _ _ __

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2 Space is dark and very _ _ __

3 Sometimes when it's sunny and rainy,
you can see a _ _ __

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The Sun

Day and Night

+ Read pages 10- 11.

+ Read pages 8-9.

1 Write the words.

1 Circle the correct words.

sun day light

Earth night

1 The sun is a planet /~a Q

2 We live on a planet called Earth / eyes.
3 Earth goes around the moon / sun.
4 The sun is very, very hot / cold.
S Look / Don't laok at th e sun.

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1 Earth turns.
2 In the day , you don 't see light
from the sun.

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3 At night you see th e sun.

4 People make light with electricity.

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Planets

+ Read pages 14- 15.

1 Write the words.

Venus Mercury
Neptune Earth Saturn
Jupiter Mars Uronus
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6 _ _ __
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red / yellow stor.

2 Patterns of stars are called

constellations / photos.

solar

Saturn

Eight

planets go around our sun.

2 The sun and its planets are called the

_ __ _ system.

3 With a pattern / telescope, you

can see more stars.

4 The Milky Way is our galaxy / sun.

4 Earth has

has lots of ri ngs.

moon.

On the Moon

Into Space
+ Read pages 18-19.

+ Read pages 16-17.

1 Write the words.

hole breathe rock

dust wind mountains

photos planets
1 CompLete the sentences. station space
1 Astrona uts go into

in a spacecraft.

2 Some spacecraft take ____

3 Some spacecraft go to other
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4 Astronauts live in a space ________

2 CompLete the puzzLe.

4 _ _ __

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The Sky Where I Live

1 Look at the sky in the day. CompLete
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Day 1

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Day 2

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Wonderful Wat er

Festivals Around
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How to Stay Heal thy
Machirle5 Then and Now
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Medici ne Then and Now
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