SOCIAL SCIENCE - 2ND GRADE - UNIT: OUR WORLD

SOCIAL SCIENCE - NEW UNIT

OUR WORLD

OUR UNIT SONG!!:

OUR WORLD:

 The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It gives off light and heat, that it's why we have DAY and NIGHT:

We were learning the most important facts about our Solar System and the planets in it:

STARS, PLANETS and SATELLITES:

  Today we learned that A SOLAR SYSTEM IS A STAR AND ALL THE PLANETS AROUND IT... Our star is the Sun and these are the planets around the Sun: 

In our last lesson we were watching a video related to this. In this next video you can learn more information:

  LESSON: ROTATION

THE EARTH ORBITS THE SUN  

We know that the Earth is a planet... IT ROTATES, this produces DAY and NIGHT:

 The Earth also ORBITS the Sun... This gives us the different seasons, this movement is also called REVOLUTION:

In this video they give you a lot of great information about all this:

LESSON: PHASES OF THE MOON  

Today we were talking and learning about the Moon. The Moon is a satellite. It rotates and orbits the Earth. We can see different parts of the Moon during this orbit.

In this next video you can learn more about it:

We can also learn about this in a funny way. Watch this next video: