{"id":18377,"date":"2015-10-20T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=18377"},"modified":"2015-10-21T10:13:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:13:08","slug":"year-3s-fantastic-sensory-rock-poems18377","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/year-3s-fantastic-sensory-rock-poems18377\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3s Fantastic Sensory &#8216;Rock&#8217; Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"18381\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/year-3s-fantastic-sensory-rock-poems18377\/attachment\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-5.jpg?fit=600%2C777\" data-orig-size=\"600,777\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015 (5)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-5.jpg?fit=232%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-5.jpg?fit=600%2C777\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18381\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-5.jpg?resize=200%2C259\" alt=\"yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015 (5)\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-5.jpg?resize=232%2C300 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-5.jpg?resize=154%2C200 154w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-5.jpg?w=600 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>What amazing creative poets we have in our Year 3 class. Click on to read a selection of their poems.<\/p>\n<p>The Year 3s have been fascinated by studying rocks.\u00a0 They have described rocks and compared their properties, doing some exciting activities and experiments along the way.<\/p>\n<p>As part of their studies, they have each focused on learning about a particular type of rock.\u00a0 They created these sensory poems to describe them.\u00a0 Well done Year 3, you have used lot of imagery and descriptive language &#8211; very impressive!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php 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data-permalink=\"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/year-3s-fantastic-sensory-rock-poems18377\/attachment\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-2.jpg?fit=600%2C775\" data-orig-size=\"600,775\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015 (2)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-2.jpg?fit=232%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/yr-3-rock-poems-oct-2015-2.jpg?fit=600%2C775\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Limestone, limestone everywhere!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Year 3s have learnt about the formation of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks.\u00a0 Did you know that the Turks and Caicos Islands are situated on an underwater plateau that rises about 10000 feet (3048 metres) up from the surrounding Atlantic Ocean sea floor?\u00a0 And that with the exception of a few tiny sandbar cays, the islands have a soft limestone foundation.\u00a0 All our cleared roads and land reveal the creamy white limestone that our island is made of.\u00a0 \u00a0 Learn more about our local geology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visittci.com\/nature-and-history\/geology-ecology-climate\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What amazing creative poets we have in our Year 3 class. Click on to read a selection of their poems. The Year 3s have been fascinated by studying rocks.\u00a0 They have described rocks and compared their properties, doing some exciting activities and experiments along the way. As part of their studies, they have each focused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18377"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18404,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377\/revisions\/18404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}