Where Do Rainbows Come From, Benji?
Benji 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?’ Benji asked Bruno the bear. Bruno didn’t know. So Benji decided to find out.
Benji read that rainbows happen when sunlight shines through raindrops. The light bends and splits into seven colours. ‘I could do that,’ Benji thought, ‘at home!’
Benji stood in the sunlight with a garden hose. He held it up, and tilted it. Suddenly, the wall lit up with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet! ‘A rainbow!’ Benji cried.
Bruno 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, Benji drew a picture of the rainbow in a notebook. ‘Now I know,’ he wrote. ‘Light has all the colours inside it.’ And Benji 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 Benji as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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