Our Grade Four Class Blog The Case of the Curious Classroom 

Dear Veteran,

      Thank you for fighting for country. Thank you for keeping our country safe so we do not get hurt from enemies. Thank you for helping others gain freedom and saving other people. Thank you for all the soldiers who fought in war like the one who spoke at our school for the Remembrance Day Assembly. Thank you for letting us feel safe when we go to school.  Not like some students who have to go school when guns, bombs, and tanks are going off.  Thank you for your service and fighting in war so we can be safe. Thank you for the day of remembrance that we can think of our blessings and that we can think of what the soldiers have gone through at war.           

     We watched a clip called, “A Poppy Is To Remember.” It showed us how scary it must be to fight in a war. We learned that the Peace Tower, in Ontario had fifty three bells in different sizes. There is a Book of Remembrance in the Peace Tower. Every year they would turn the page in the book to remember all the soldiers who fought in war. We learned that sometimes they fight for land. We learned about John McCrae.  He was born in Guelph, Ontario. He also wrote a poem after his friend died in the war in Flanders Fields.

We are making a clay poppy picture for Remembrance Day. We sang, “A Wish For Peace,” for Remembrance Day. We are typing a letter about Remembrance Day.  We had a Remembrance Day Assembly on Tuesday November 10^th . We sang O’Canada at the assembly.  There was a veteran named Mr. Eichelbaum.  He started fighting when he was 23 years old. I enjoyed the 2 minutes of silence to remember the fallen soliders and we watched a short video about the soldiers.

                                                                Yours Truly,

                                                                   Abram