This Powerpoint is all about Remembrance Day, the poppies usage etc. Used for kids Grade 5 downwards.

2. Remembrance Day

3. What is Remembrance Day?
• A.K.A Poppy Day, Armistice (a truce) Day
• Memorial Day
• WW1 (1914-1918)
• About 95
years ago

4. What is Remembrance Day?
• To remember the soldiers who died during the war

5. Why a Poppy?
• Flanders Field: Southern Belgium and North-West France
• Only flower that bloomed in Flanders Field

6. In Flanders Field by Lt. Col.
John McCrae
• From Guelph; Ontario; Canada
• Famous poet
• Most famous for “In Flanders Field”

7. Reading & Video: In Flanders
Field by Lt. Col. John McCrae

8. Leading Seaman: Nicoles Muir

9. What is the 1 minute silence?
• 11th November 11:00 am
• To remember the soldiers who fought for their countries

10. 1 minute silence

11. Thank you for listening