Lila and the Secret of Rain

We have been reading a lovely book in Year 1 this week called "Lila and the Secret of Rain." We enjoyed sharing our first thoughts about the story and telling each other what we liked and didn't like. 

"I liked finding out about life in a different country," Ernest. 

"I liked discovering the secret of rain!" Tenzin. 

"I didn't like the part where Lila overhead her mother saying without water there would be no life," Kyla. 

We then wrote some fantastic poems using similes to say thank you for the rain. Here are some of the ideas we came up with as a class:

Thank you for the rain,
It looks like shiny wet pebbles, 
It sounds like children playing catch, 
It feels like one of my mummy's kisses,
It smells like a summer's evening,
It tastes like a sweet pear. 

We then made our own rainsticks. We looked carefully at African fabrics and copied the patterns using paint. We then covered one end of our tube and poured in some rice before covering the other end. We carefully wrapped our painting around the tube and had fun playing with our rainsticks!