Day and Night (First Step Nonfiction ― Discovering Nature's Cycles)

A wonderful book with great photos to explain how day becomes night and vice versa. It is perfect to read to my kindergarteners. My only wish is that the book were larger, as in a big book.

This book is EXCELLENT when teaching about the differences between day and night. The pictures are clear and the text is simple yet informative. If you need a book explaining the difference between day and night with some lovely illustrations....buy this book!

I purchased this for a preschool theme on Things that Change. The children enjoyed the book.

As a science teacher this was a neat book to use to teach your students the differences between night and day. It was a great way for students to compare and contrast night and day.

It was a good books for my students to read

After the day is finished, night time comes. This is a cycle that happens as "the Earth spins in space. When you get up in the morning, wherever you are living is "turning to face the sun." In the early morning you can just see the sun's light starting to peek out at dawn. When the sun starts to get higher in the sky this is called sunrise. When it is day, everything is bright and you can "see the sun and the clouds in the sky." If you looked at the Earth from outer space you can see that only a part of it is lit up as it spins. When evening comes, "your part of Earth is turning away from the sun" and night is coming again. When the sun starts to move "lower in the sky," this is called sunset. At dusk there is still a bit of light, but you cannot see the sun. When it gets dark and you cannot see any sunlight at all it is night. When you look up in the sky you "can see the moon and the stars." The Earth will keep turning and this cycle will continue. In the back of this book you will be able to take a look at a diagram that shows this cycle and will learn more about this cycle. For example, you will learn that "it takes Earth 24 hours to spin around once." This is an excellent book to introduce the natural cycle of the Earth's rotation to the young student. As beginning nonfiction, the simple sentences with an accompanying photograph are an excellent way for the emergent reader to become interested in Earth science. Unfamiliar words such as "dusk" and "cycle" are highlighted in bold and explained in the glossary. The photographs were well chosen and make it easy to differentiate between the concept of dusk versus night. This is one in a series called, "Discovering Nature's Cycles." One other in the series entitled "The Night Sky" is a perfect compliment to this book. If you are interested in introducing very basic Earth science in your classroom, this is an excellent series to consider!

My 18 month old daughter Elizabeth is in the “why” stage of toddlerhood. We are already working on how to get her to stay in bed until it is light outside because she wants to start her day about two hours before sunrise. Her comprehension of this book has been applied so far in that she understands that people sleep when it is dark outside and when it is getting dark outside we go home and start dinner and our night time routine. She loves the pictures and points out the sun and moon with their proper names ❤️

I am a primary science teacher and used this book to support teaching concepts of day & night. The book is easy to read and understand for the first graders. The pictures are great.