on Poppy Day So we remember the people who died fighting wars for their country It started with the First World War over 100 years ago Here you can see what it was like fighting a war at that time ID: 495578
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What do we rememberon Poppy Day?Slide2Slide3
So we remember the people who died fighting wars for their country.
It started with the First World War over 100 years ago. Here you can see what it was like fighting a war at that time.Slide4Slide5
There have been lots of wars over the last 100 years.
On Remembrance Day we remember all those who died in those wars so that we won’t forget how brave they were.Slide6Slide7
How do we remember the dead on Poppy day?
We wear poppies to remember the dead because of a poem that was written nearly 100 years ago.Slide8
But why do we wear a poppy?
During the First World War, red poppies were the plants to spring up in the battlefields of northern France
and Belgium. The soil there allowed the poppy to grow when not much else would grow in the churned up mud. The sight of the new growth and life of the red poppy provided a strong contrast to the death of war.Slide9Slide10Slide11
How else do we remember the dead who gave their lives in war?Slide12Slide13
How we remember the dead on Poppy Day
By laying a wreath at a local memorial
The queen and world leaders go to the Cenotaph
By keeping quiet during the two-minute silence.
By listening to special musicSlide14
What do you think the writing on this memorial says?Slide15
So why this Sunday in November?
The guns fell silent at the end of the First World War at a time that we use today for our two-minute silence. It was
11 o’clock on the 11th of November 1918.We remember this as the :eleventh hour of theeleventh dayeleventh monthSlide16
Your family might remember relatives who lost their lives in a war
Or who survived to tell you about it.Slide17Slide18
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Scholastic Canada for permission to reproduce images from A poppy is to Remember
Heather Patterson and Ron Lightburn ,ISBN 0-439-96786-4 HC 32 pages Ages 5 to 9