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1st grade · Science · Unit 5 of 11

Sky & Seasons

Day, night and the seasons

What your child practices

Day and night, the sun, moon and stars (the moon reflects sunlight), and the order of the seasons.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.9 · the order of the seasons and the changes in nature through the year

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The sun comes up in the morning and goes down in the evening.
  2. The seasons go spring, summer, fall, winter.
  3. Leaves change color and fall in fall.

Example: Which season comes after winter? Spring, summer, fall, winter… then spring again. Answer: spring

Sky & Seasons in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 5 of 11 in 1st grade Science, after Ideas from Nature and before How Things Move.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Put the seasons in order. Start with spring.

    • ❄️winter
    • 🌷spring
    • 🍂fall
    • ☀️summer

  2. Question 2

    Which season comes after fall?

    • 🌷spring
    • ❄️winter
    • ☀️summer

  3. Question 3

    In which season do many flowers start to grow?

    • ❄️winter
    • 🍂fall
    • 🌷spring

  4. Question 4

    Does the moon always look the same shape?

    • 🌕Yes, it is always round
    • 🌓No, its shape seems to change

  5. Question 5

    When does the sun go down?

    • 🌇in the evening
    • 🥣at breakfast
    • 🥪at lunch

  6. Question 6

    Which season comes after winter?

    • 🍂fall
    • ☀️summer
    • 🌷spring

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