Tessa Makes a Rainbow
Tessa wonders where rainbows come from, and discovers how to make one at home.
After the rain, a rainbow arced across the sky. ‘Where do rainbows come from?’ Tessa asked Enzo the elephant. Enzo didn’t know. So Tessa decided to find out.
Tessa read that rainbows happen when sunlight shines through raindrops. The light bends and splits into seven colours. ‘I could do that,’ Tessa thought, ‘at home!’
Tessa stood in the sunlight with a glass of water. She held it up, and tilted it. Suddenly, the wall lit up with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet! ‘A rainbow!’ Tessa cried.
Enzo tried to catch the colours with his paws, but they slipped away. They laughed, and danced in the little rainbow until the sun slid behind a cloud.
That evening, Tessa drew a picture of the rainbow in a notebook. ‘Now I know,’ she wrote. ‘Light has all the colours inside it.’ And Tessa smiled, feeling like a real scientist.
The little lesson
Curiosity is the beginning of wonder.
Let’s talk about it
- What colours are in a rainbow?
- What makes light split into colours?
Finish stories to collect Tessa as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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