Remembrance Day Powerpoint (PYP)
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This Powerpoint is all about Remembrance Day, the poppies usage etc. Used for kids Grade 5 downwards.
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Remembrance Day
What is Remembrance Day?• A.K.A Poppy Day, Armistice (a truce) Day • Memorial Day • WW1 (1914-1918)• About 95years ago
What is Remembrance Day?• To remember the soldiers who died during the war
Why a Poppy?• Flanders Field: Southern Belgium and North-West France• Only flower that bloomed in Flanders Field
In Flanders Field by Lt. Col. John McCrae• From Guelph; Ontario; Canada• Famous poet • Most famous for “In Flanders Field”
Reading & Video: In Flanders Field by Lt. Col. John McCrae
Leading Seaman: Nicoles Muir
What is the 1 minute silence?• 11th November 11:00 am• To remember the soldiers who fought for their countries
1 minute silence
Thank you for listening
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