Below are ideas for extending this topic beyond the activity & exploration you just completed.

• Lesson Assessment
• Activity: Vocabulary Cards let students practice reading and writing skills while learning science vocabulary.
• Readings: Two readings about the sun for first grade.
  
• Read-aloud: In The Sun is My Favorite Star, by Frank Asch, a child notices how the sun touches her life from when she wakes up to when she goes to bed.
  
• Activity: Use your Sun Finder to show where the sun is at different times of day.
  

These Common-Core-aligned readings are free with registration on ReadWorks. All readings include comprehension questions.

• Day to Night— A child notices the position of the sun in the sky at different times of day. (Grade 1)
• Sunrise, Sunset— A reading about how the length of the day changes with the season of the year. (Grade 1)

Encourage your students to notice where the sun is in the sky at different times of the day. Ask them to show you these times, using their Sun Finder.

• Where is the sun at lunchtime?
  
• Where is the sun when you wake up in the morning?
• Where is the sun just before dinnertime?