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Nigeria: Why the Sun and Moon Live In the Sky

- Date: 05.15.12

First Grade students are back on the road again, and this week we reached a new continent: Africa!  First stop: Nigeria.

Why the Sun & Moon Live in the Sky, retold and illustrated by Niki Daly, is a lovely Nigerian folktale about how Sun’s infatuation with Sea led to him and Moon retreating to the sky forever.

While folktales are a lovely way to imagine why nature is the way it is, we learned that a great way to discover actual scientific facts is by borrowing books from the 500s section of the library – Science and Nature!

 

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