Sunrise and sunset

Yesterday we learnt how the sun gives us night and day. We used a torch and a sphere and learnt how the Earth spins around, so that sometimes part of it is facing the sun - then it's daytime - and part of it is facing away from the sun - then it's night. We talked about what 'sunrise' and 'sunset' means and looked at some pictures.

Here are some of the things we said:
"When the sun sets it's our bedtime and Australia's breakfast." (Grace)
"It's sunrise in the morning." (Maddie)
"The sun sets at night time." (Olivia)
"When the sun goes down it's called sunset, when it goes up it's sunrise." (Harry)
"The sun makes it light. When it's dark it isn't shining on us." (Aaron)
"We can't always see the sun." (Trystan)
"The sun goes down slowly in the day." (Lexi)

We explored different materials to make sunrise and sunset pictures including colouring pencils and chalks. We also used paint - we mixed different shades of red, yellow and orange and made some really effective pictures.