{"id":2382,"date":"2009-06-11T23:55:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T02:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2009-06-11T23:55:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T02:55:16","slug":"portraits-of-our-leaders-in-the-tci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/year-2\/portraits-of-our-leaders-in-the-tci\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraits of our Leaders in the TCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2398 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"g2-tci-leaders-09-06-09\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/g2-tci-leaders-09-06-09.jpg?resize=460%2C129\" alt=\"g2-tci-leaders-09-06-09\" width=\"460\" height=\"129\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>All of our classes study aspects of the Turks and Caicos Islands (T.C.I) as part of their Social Studies Curriculum.  The Grade 2 class did some research about our past and present leaders.   They created portraits of each leader using recycled material.  These are displayed in the classroom in chronological order.  Take a closer look at our leaders on our <a title=\"Past and Present Leaders of the TCI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/slideshows\/G2\/g2-tci-leaders-08-06-09\" target=\"_blank\">slideshow<\/a>.\u00a0 The music playing is our National Song &#8211; &#8216;This Land of Ours&#8217; <span class=\"tcimall\"><span class=\"style14\">written and composed by Reverend Dr. Conrad Howell. Click on to read the words to this song.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>This Land of Ours<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nO we salute this land of ours<br \/>\nOur country we declare<br \/>\nThis promise land with its beauties grand<br \/>\nThough small it is our own<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHORUS<\/strong><br \/>\nTurks and Caicos, Turks and Caicos<br \/>\nOur country firm and free<br \/>\nOur allegiance Turks and Caicos<br \/>\nWe pledge and we affirm.<\/p>\n<p>Our people forged and blend<br \/>\nWith multiplicity<br \/>\nOf race and kind and creed and tongue<br \/>\nUnited by our goals<\/p>\n<p>From the east, west, north and south<br \/>\nOur banks and oceans meet<br \/>\nSurrounding sands and hills of glee<br \/>\nOur pristine beauties see<\/p>\n<p>We stand with courage brave<br \/>\nTo maintain this land of ours<br \/>\nWith Islands scattered here and there<br \/>\nWith trust in God we stand<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics and music by: Reverend Dr. Conrad Howell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of our classes study aspects of the Turks and Caicos Islands (T.C.I) as part of their Social Studies Curriculum. The Grade 2 class did some research about our past and present leaders. They created portraits of each leader using recycled material. These are displayed in the classroom in chronological order. Take a closer look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}