Where Do Rainbows Come From, Ella?
Ella 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?’ Ella asked Opal the owl. Opal didn’t know. So Ella decided to find out.
Ella read that rainbows happen when sunlight shines through raindrops. The light bends and splits into seven colours. ‘I could do that,’ Ella thought, ‘at home!’
Ella 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!’ Ella cried.
Opal tried to catch the colours with her paws, but they slipped away. They laughed, and danced in the little rainbow until the sun slid behind a cloud.
That evening, Ella drew a picture of the rainbow in a notebook. ‘Now I know,’ she wrote. ‘Light has all the colours inside it.’ And Ella 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 Ella as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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