In the
Sky
Kami ni Khan duri
Read and discover all about the sky ...
• What can you see in the sky?
• What are stars?
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co ntent, with ac ti vities and proj ect work.
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Contents
Introduction
3
1 The Sky
4
2 At Night
6
3 The Sun
8
4 Day and Night
10
5 Stars
12
6 Planets
14
7 On the Moon
16
8 Into Space
18
Activities
20
Project
28
Picture Dictionary
30
About Read and Discover
32
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Now read and discover
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.
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A spacecraft
goes up mto
the sky. Then
it goes into
space. Space
is dark and
very big.
+ Go to page 20 for activities.
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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.
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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 .
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+ Go to page 22 far activities.
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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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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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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
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3 At night you see th e sun.
4 People make light with electricity.
Stars
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+ Read pages 14- 15.
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Venus Mercury
Neptune Earth Saturn
Jupiter Mars Uronus
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red / yellow stor.
2 Patterns of stars are called
constellations / photos.
solar
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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.
3
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
2
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4 Astronauts live in a space ________
2 CompLete the puzzLe.
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Astronauts can go to ~ space suits.
Astronauts have
from a tank.
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the moon.
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Astronauts can go to the moon.
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The Sky Where I Live
1 Look at the sky in the day. CompLete
the chart.
Day 1
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3 Look at your charts. Find or draw
pictures and write sentences about
the sky.
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Day 2
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Con you see ony lights?
Is there
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moon?
Are there stars?
What othe r things con
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• At the Beach
.. FrUit
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• In the Sky
• Trees
• Wheels
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• Wild Cats
How We Make Produ cts
Sound and Music
Super Slructures
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Animals in the Air
life in Rainforests
Wonderful Wat er
Festivals Around
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r ree Time Around
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All About Mants
How to Stay Heal thy
Machirle5 Then and Now
Why We Recycle
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All About Space
Caring for Our Planet
Earth Then and Now
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Cells and Microbes
Clothes Then and Now
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