Oh Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun, Please Shine Down On Me

The past few weeks we have studied different objects in the sky. Last week we studied the sun and went outside to see how our shadows changed from the morning to the afternoon when the sun was in a different position in the sky. We discovered that our shadows were HUGE in the morning but were much smaller in the afternoon when the sun was almost directly above us. We had so much fun tracing our shadows and then coming inside and figuring out how to make different animal shadows with our hands in front of a flashlight! From what we learned about the Sun, we knew that the hand shadows would be bigger if our hands were further away from the flashlight. 

Large

Morning

Shadows

Small Afternoon Shadows