November 18th, 2016

Salty Sam’s Fun Blog for Children

Number 92

Chasing Rainbows

 

 
Hello Everyone

 

 

Have you ever looked up at a rainbow in the sky and thought about how magical it looks?

 

Have you ever seen two or even three stacked up into the sky?

 

Have you ever heard that at the end of the rainbow there is a crock of gold, probably left there by an lrish leprechaun?

 

The trouble is that you can never get to the end of the rainbow to look there, because as you move towards the rainbow it moves away from you.

 

Because people think that they are so beautiful and so unusual, myths and legends have been told about rainbows all over the world throughout history. Even today they still seem spell-binding.

 

Rainbows are in fact what we call an optical illusion.

 

People standing in different places will see the rainbow forming at that moment in a different place in the sky – it depends on where each person is standing and what their viewpoint is – the rainbow is not fixed in one spot.

 

You only see rainbows when the sun is shining and it is raining at the same time, or if there is a lot of moisture in the air like a fine mist.

 

The rainbow is always placed in the sky as you look away from the sun.

 

lt is a multicoloured arc containing seven colours starting with red at the top, then orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

 

Sometimes you get extra colours inside the rainbow. This is called a stacker rainbow.

 

lf you take a picture of a rainbow with black and white film, you will not see these seven bands properly in the photograph.

 

The rainbow occurs because the light from the sun splits inside the raindrops and splays out as light separated into different colours. Sunlight always contains these different colours.

 

You can get rainbows over waterfalls and fountains too where the water is spraying into the air in a fine mist of droplets. These are caught in the sun’s rays and a rainbow appears in the mist.

 

Did you know that you can also get moonbows?

 

They are rainbows that occur at night, but because human eyes are not very good at seeing colour when there isn’t much light in the sky, to us they usually look as though they are just white – but sometimes you can see some colour in them.

 

So the next time it is raining and the sun comes out – have a look in the part of the sky that is in the opposite direction from the sun and see if you can see a rainbow.

 

 

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Love and kisses

 

 

Salty Sam

www.christina-sinclair.com

 

 

 

 
Bill and Bob’s Joke of the Week

 

Bob: What do you call an animal that drops from the clouds?

 

Bill: l don’t know. What do you call an animal that drops from the clouds?

 

Bob: A reindeer!

 

Auntie Alice: That’s funny dear. 

 

 

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Picture Gallery

 

For rainbows you need sunshine

 

 And rain

 

 The sun has to shine and the rain has to fall at the same time to create rainbows

 

 A tiny rainbow in a hole in the clouds

The red is the on side where the sunlight was coming from

 

 You can make your own rainbow by shining a white light through a prism

The prism will split the light just as a rain drop does

 

 A rainbow

 

 A stacker rainbow

 

 A moonbow

 

 A moonbow

 

 Rainbows can be found above waterfalls in the mist they create 

 

 The legend of a leprechaun and his crock of gold

 

 

 

 

     THE SALTY SAM NEWS DESK

 

Auntie Alice has now finished writing out the pattern for the white sweater she knitted for Emily’s twelve inch doll, so I can give it to you here.

It goes with the black jeans pattern on Blog Post 87.

I’m sure that you have finished knitting the jeans by now.

 

 

NEWSDESK MINIMAKE

12” DOLL WHITE SWEATER

 

WHITE SWEATER BACK AND FRONT (KNIT TWO)

Using 3½mm knitting needles and white dk yarn cast on 20 stitches

K3 p2 k2 p2 k2 p2 k2 p2 k3

P3 k2 p2 k2 p2 k2 p2 k2 p3

 

Repeat the last 2 rows 9 times

Purl 1 row

Cast off

 

SLEEVES (KNIT TWO)

Using 3½mm knitting needles and white dk yarn cast on 10 stitches

 
Purl 1 row

Purl 1 row

Knit 20 rows of stocking stitch

Cast off loosely

 

(You can cast on 12 stitches if you want looser sleeves or if your knitting is very tight)

 

TO MAKE UP

Use over-sewing to sew the garment together to ensure fit and reduce bulk in the seams

Sew shoulder seams up 2cm/¾inch from arm end

Sew sleeves to shoulder

Sew underarm and side seams

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Quick Quiz

 

What do these phrases mean?

 

1. a red letter day
2. out of the blue
3. a white elephant
4. to get the green light
5. to be in a black mood
6. to be tickled pink
7. to have green fingers
8. to be in a blue funk
9. the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
10. it’s a grey area
11. silence is golden
12. to have a yellow streak
13. to be feeling blue
14. chasing rainbows
15. to pass with flying colours 

 

 

 

 

 
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lt’s the Weekend!

 

 
HOW TO CONDUCT A COLOUR EXPERlMENT

 
Take a small piece of white paper and turn it sideways.

 

 

Then cover it with yellow wax crayon working from the left side to the right side moving your crayon up and down getting heavier as you work over to the right side. Turn the paper upside down and do the same thing with a red crayon. Your paper will magically turn – orange!

You’ll probably do this the other way around if you are left handed.

Try it again with yellow then blue and see what happens – yes it will turn green.

If you do it with red and blue, you will get purple.

 

 
Another way of making wax crayon pictures is to cover a piece of white paper with lots patches of different colours then cover it over completely with black crayon. Scrape a picture into the black crayon and the colours from beneath will be exposed!

 

 

 

 

Please note that the material on this blog is for personal use and for use in classrooms only.

It is a copyright infringement and, therefore, illegal under international law to sell items made with these patterns.

Use of the toys and projects is at your own risk.

©Christina Sinclair Designs 2015

 

 

Quick Quiz Answers

 

1. a red letter day –
2. out of the blue –
3. a white elephant –
4. to get the green light –
5. to be in a black mood –
6. to be tickled pink –
7. to have green fingers –
8. to be in a blue funk –
9. the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence –
10. it’s a grey area –
11. silence is golden –
12. to have a yellow streak –
13. to be feeling blue –
14. chasing rainbows – 
15. to pass with flying colours –

 

 

1. a day that is important and memorable
2. something happens without warning (like lightening out of a blue, cloudless sky) a bolt from the blue is an archery term
3. a useless object
4. to get permission to start a project
5. to be in a really bad mood
6. to be really pleased
7. to be good at gardening
8. to be really frightened
9. to think that other people are in a better situation than you are, or have a better life – but it may not be true
10. a situation is not clear or the rules are not known
11. sometimes it is better to say nothing
12. to be a coward
13. to be unhappy
14. trying to achieve something that is not possible or practical
15. to pass a test very successfully – to achieve something with really good results

 

 

Moonbows occur when the Moon is surrounded by clouds