The Pebble in my Pocket

We starting off our Year 4 English learning with an information book called The Pebble in My Pocket. It uses geologists' understanding of the earth's history to follow the long journey of one particular pebble.

At the same time we're looking at one particular pebble of our own really carefully.

We did this on Friday, and took turns to handle our pebble and to describe it and say what it made us think of.

Then we kneaded our descriptions and thoughts into a poem shape.

Here's the pebble and the poem from 4G:

smooth

like a hard potato

solid

like a small mountain

heavy

a massage stone

made of different rocks

grey and cream

it has a design 

it's exciting 

unusual to find a rock with stripes

crystal white like paint

x marks the spot

it's oval

like the beak of a bird

it's bumpy

you could scratch yourself

three toes

like the claws of a dinosaur

it has a missing half

orange inside

Poseidon's beard

it smells like it's been in the sea