The Sun and the Moon One day the sun said to the moon, "I shine in the day so the people on Earth can see." "I give energy to all the plants and animals. It takes Earth a whole year to go around me." The moon said, "I am sometimes in the sky in the day time and I am sometimes in the sky at night." "I have lots of mountains and I also have big craters. I make the tides in the sea. It takes me one month to go around Earth."​