We have been learning all about the Sun as part of our Space topic, and it’s been fascinating! Here are some interesting Sun Facts that we placed on our Sun wall display…

• The Sun is a big ball of hot gases AND it’s actually a star!
• The hottest part of the Sun in around 15 MILLION degrees celsius!
• It’s about 90 MILLION miles away from the Earth and around 1 MILLION times bigger than it!

We used our Sun Facts in the ICT suite to make a PowerPoint about our learning. The new skill that we learned was how to copy and paste pictures from the internet onto slides. We know how to make pictures smaller and bigger and we can move them around too!

 

 

We have also been learning about the why the Sun appears to move across the sky during the day. We put our scientist hats on and discovered that it’s not the Sun moving – it’s the Earth! The Earth spins on its axis one full turn every 24 hours, which is the length of a full day! So for some of the day, we are facing the Sun and we have daylight. Guess what happens when we face away from the Sun? That’s right – we have night time. We made Sun Clocks so that we could observe what happens to the Sun during the day…

 

 

We marked our Sun Clocks at 1pm, 2pm and 3pm…

 

 

Interesting! We’ll analyse the results of our Sun Clock experiment tomorrow and write them up like real scientists!