What is wrong with the sizes of the Moon every night?

In Week 6 of Term 2 our class focussed on how to write great explanations.

We wrote about the Moon’s different phases as we are in the middle of learning about Planet Earth and Beyond. Learning how to write a great explanation will help us with our self-guided topics in a few weeks time. Here is my writing, after I have self-assessed and peer-assessed my work.

WHY DOES THE MOON LOOK DIFFERENT EVERY NIGHT?

Despite a good sleep, the Moon shines brightly but is different every night. It has a different size every night, you can either see more or less of the Moon. Here Today I am going to introduce the Moon’s orbit, Phases of the Moon and the time it takes between two new moons.

As the Moon orbits Earth, we either see more or less of the illuminated side. The Moon looks different every night because of the phases of the Moon. This is a result of the rotation the Moon makes. As heard, the Moon revolves the Earth and is tilted from our orbit around the Sun. It was believed that the shadows of the Moon is triggered because of the Earth's shadow. However, it was proven by scientists that the phase of the Moon are actually made because of the Sun's reflection.

In total, there is eight different lunar phases. Our first phase is new Moon and our last phase is a Waning Crescent. Lunar phases are spread out into almost a month. They are different because of the rotation the Moon generates by rotating the Earth. We would either see more or less of the reflected Sun light which the Moon gives at night. Lunar phases are named New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter and last but not least the Waning Crescent.

• Precisely, the size of time between a single new moon and the next is called a lunar month.  It  is exactly about 29.5 days in a lunar month. But the time it takes for the Moon to make one complete orbit around Earth is actually a bit less: about 27.3 days. The Moon takes 2 days for it to actually catch up with Earth's orbit. This means it is likely to be just like February each month of a Moon year!

In general,

this has explained the reasons why the Moon looks different every night. If this has inspired you. You may possibly make your own explanation around this topic. I suggest you would like to visit (http://www.planetsforkids.org/moon-moon.html) this has a lot of information for you to keep in the back of your mind.