Books

      Books are the most important sources of knowledge. We have learnt many things from books. We have read stories, poems, histories, reports, biographies, adventures, every thing in books. We have learnt about our country and other countries from books. Books give us not only knowledge, they give us entertainment too. Each religion has it own books too. The Buddhists have the Dhammapada, the Christians have the Bible, the Muslims have the Quran and the Hindus have the Vedas. The Mahavansa is considered the oldest record of history of our country, I love books every day.

Sinharaja Rainforest

         The Sinharaja Rainforest is situated in lowland wet zone in Sri Lanka. The Sinharaja Rainforest is the largest rainforest in Sri Lanka. It is about 9000 hectares in extent. The many rare plants in this rainforest. In 1840 Sinharaja became a crown property. In 1989 UNESCO included the Sinharaja forest in the World Heritage list, as the first National Heritage of Sri Lanka. This is home to many animals, birds, butterflies, insects, reptiles and trees. This rainforest get heavy rainfall. There fore ferns and mess grow well. We should protect this jungle.

Some plants threatened and dying

      In our country lot of rare plants have already disappeared. There are ranety of plants in the country. Many of the plants are very rare. Among them herbal plants are very useful for the humans. But human them selves don’t plants there fore they sell some plants to foreigners and as a result the world would lose them altogether. Many of the herbal plants grow in Sinharaja. It is a world heritage. But it is destroying now. Because people cut trees, sell and earn money. Sri Lanka has many valuable trees. Some of them are Mahogami, Nedum, Thekka and Kaluwara. These plants are most expensive in Sri Lanka. We should protect rare plants in Sri Lanka.      

I like this book

          My favorite book is Araliya Mal Aramaya. The author of this book is Mr. Jayasena Jayakodi. I read this book in last weekend. I can remember some characters in this story. They are Rahula Theranuwo, Nandarathana, Sumadha and Kusumawathi. The main character of this book is Rahula Theranuwo. He faced many problems. But he did not suffer about the problems. This story is about that. I like to read again, because it is very good book. I think I will never forget this story.

Yala National Park

        It is situated in Hambanthota district. It covers 19 kilometers of sea coast, unspoiled natural beaches. Yala National Park is 1360 sq. kilometers in extent. The climate of this jungle is usually hot and dry. It gets north east monsoon rains from November to January. And also it gets inter monsoonal rains in March and April. The Manic Ganga flows across this National Park. It provides water to this jungle. We can see many tanks and natural water holes in this jungle. They are full of water. We find extensive grasslands surroundings the tanks and water holes. Animals and birds come these places for drink water. Not only elephants and leopards, but also deer, samburs and monkeys in this jungle. Yala National Park is home to reptiles, crocodiles and beautiful tortoises. This jungle is full of wild flowers. Because that this jungle is very beautiful. So large numbers of tourists visit this national park. This jungle affect to tsunami. Because tsunami many tourists die. But fortunately animals did not die. So we should protect this Yala National Park for the future.

The Elephants in Sri Lanka

The elephants largest animals in Sri Lanka. They are mammals. Elephants like to eat kithul trunks, banana trunks and palmyrah trunks. There fore all the elephants are herbivores. They live together. In every herd there is a leader to lead them and protect them. Elephants are very valuable animal. We can see elephants in the world famous Kandy perahera. Over a hundred elephants take part in the procession. They are draped in gorgeous materials; their ears are covered with colorful brocade and their tusks with shiny brass covers. Further we can see wild elephants in the National Parks. Some times we can see herds of twenty five or more wandering in the jungles and grasslands. Some people catch elephants and tame them. The working elephants are trained to fell trees, to carry heavy logs of wood with their trunks and load them into Lorries. During the past elephant played an important role in war. They took part in war.                   We have heard that elephants have pearls. So people kill animals to take tusks and pearls. They sell them and earn money. So some times policemen caught them and fine them. It is one threat elephants have. Some people clear woods to make chenas. There fore elephants have to suffer. The elephants lose their habitat. They come to villages. They destroy farmers’ fields and chenas. Then farmers inform about this problem to wild life department. Then wild life officers come to village and chase elephants. Some times elephants fall into wells. There is also an elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka. When an elephant become an orphan they are taken in to orphanage.  It is a place of tourist attraction. We should protect our elephants                              

The story

               Once up on a time there was a beautiful jungle. There were many trees, rivers, steams, ponds and many animals in this jungle.  Among the animals in this jungle were birds, snakes, lizards, tortoises, samburs, elephants, rabbits. They lived in harmony in the jungle.                   One day a man came to the jungle to hunt animals. He saw many valuable trees. He thought to cut all trees and sell them. He went back to his village and told about this jungle. After that they discussed, designed and planed as to how they cut trees. Finally they planned cut all valuable trees and hunt animals.                       One day they went to that jungle to cut trees and hunt animals. On seeing them. The innocent animals were frightened and ran away. People cut all trees. But they couldn’t kill animals, because all animals left the jungle. People missed one big tree. It is an old tree. Then the forest becomes a barren land. After some time the wells, rivers, steams, ponds dried up. People too began to die. Because they couldn’t live without water and food.                                                     Then man realized value of trees and animals. After that people ran back to the barren land. They started growing plants. Once again the wells, rivers, streams and ponds become full of water. Animals came back to the jungle. Again animals live in harmony in this jungle.

Irangani Serasinhe

            Irangani Serasinhe is a popular actress. She was born in Mudugamuwa in Kegalla district. She is a charming and modest woman. From child hood she loved nature. She lived with nature in her childhood. Now she lives in busy city. But she loves nature a lot.

Our temple

            Our temple’s name is Sri Saliyawanarama Wiharasthanaya. It is in Wilachchiya village, manna junction. Our temple started in year 1976. It has 31 years long history. There are two monks in the temple. The chief monk in our temple is Rev: Meewala Ananda.  The other monk in our temple is Rev: Wilachchiye Rewatha. They are in awasage. Our temple has stone statues. These statues were made prince Saliya. We tell this statues ruins. There is a Dageba, a Bodiya, a Shine room in our temple. Our adults in the past built that.  Around the temple built a wall. It helps to protect our temple.                     This temple has a Damma school. Its name is Sri Ananda Damma School. There are about 60 children and 10 teachers in our Damma School. Our teachers are kind. They help learn to us. We hold assemblies in every morning. There are temple flower trees and sal tree in our temple. There is a shine in the temple. We can go too shone in Wednesday and Saturday. We can lesion to pirith in every morning. Every Sunday evening we hold Bodi Puja. So temple is very important to us. It near the vilpaththu jungle. We give alms to monks in the temple. Many of temples in Anuradhapura district. But I think the best temple in our district is our temple. We also protect our temple.

Mr. Sarachchandra