Sean raised his hand and said, "Well, the face is the part we can see and it has light and dark patches."

Jay thought for a moment "Let me further explain my answer. We can only see one side of the moon, the face. And when different shadows are casted upon it, the moon looks differnt, the phases." she said.

Amie raised her hand

"What that means is that there are many different type of phases for the moon, but we could only see one side of the moon. There are phases but we don't take the time to notice it, because the moon looks almost the same every night" Amie answered

Rachel picked up her quill and jotted down a few notes just incase she needed them again for anything.

"Is it because while time changes on earth, and the sun rises and sets, it shows different faces?" Mayura asked raising her hand.

Josey raised her hand. She said, "Phases describe the light and dark, meaning the different amounts of light reflected off the moon that we see. Faces, on the other hand, is the actual moon. We only see one face of the moon because the moon rotates at the same rate as it revolves."

Hazelle smiled at the only student to not repeat what she had just said, "Very good, Serena. 3 points.

"Now, then, we've already discussed two phases of the moon. There are six more phases, who can tell me what they are?"

Serena's hand shot up. "That would be the First Quarter Moon, Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, and Waning Crescent."

Rachel thought to herself "quater-moon?" she said thinking of when she had heard it said before.

Megan sat quietly waiting for someone who knew the answer to speak up. She knew she was going to learn lots this term.

GG raised her hand "Waxing cresent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, wanning gibbous, last quarter and waning cresent..."

Amie raised her hand once again.

"The other different phases of the moons are Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, and Waning Crescent" Amie said feeling quite proud of herself.

Rachel sat lower in her chair, her answer didnt seem that detailed compared to the other answers she really needed to learn some stuff.

"Very good, Serena! 3 points!"

"Nice try, Racheya, 1 point.

"Now, each of these 'rise' and 'set' at different times. Who can tell me when the first quarter moon.....rises?"

Sitting back down in her chair, she gently set the ball down on her desk, making sure it wouldn't roll off and break. Running through the phases of the moon in her head, she counted them off on her fingers. Listening to her other classmates, she smiled as she figured that she had gotten most of them. Writing the ones down that she missed, she redirected her attention to her teacher. Hearing the new question, she spoke up from the back of the room. "The first quarter moon rises when its 3/4 of the way around the sky from the New Moon." She said, trying to remember exactly what she had learned last year. It seemed to be something like this.

Rachel didnt put her hand up not knowing the answer but still thought about it thinking that it may have been around an early time in the morning

Serena beamed at the gain of points and raised her hand again. "I do believe it rises about noon."

GG raised her hand "First and Last Quarters occur when the Sun and Moon are about 90 degrees apart in the sky"

"Very good! One point to each of you!"

"Well, thank you for that tidbit, GG, but I'm afraid that wasn't my question." She winked at the girl and moved to the next question.

"Who can tell me when the waning Crescent sets?"

After considering the answer to the previous question, Megan raised her hand and said softly, "possibly around six or seven pm?"

yet again rachel didnt know the answer, she thought to herself that she needed to read up on these things. She thought about the answer but couldnt work out one.

in the evening, around 7-8pm, but earlier in the winter season around 4-5pmsaid mich raising her hand