Our Grade Four Class Blog The Case of the Curious Classroom 

Dear Veteran,

Thank you for serving our country. I am glad that you fought for us. Thank you for fighting in other countries to help them gain freedom. We watched a clip called, “A Poppy is to Remember,” which showed how scary it must be to fight in a war. We saw graves of soldiers, guns, and tanks.  What a terrible thing to go through. I know it would be sad if I lost someone in my family.

I learned that 38 million people died in war. I heard that there is a thick book that told that how many people died. Each year they flip a page because they were fighting wars.  John McCrae wrote a poem about the soldiers that died in Flanders Fields. I think that it is sad that they lost one there people in their family. The Peace Tower is in Ottawa. The Peace Tower has 53 bells on it.

We sang a song called, “A Wish for Peace,” at the Remembrance Day Assembly.   I enjoyed singing on the stage in front of the audience. We wear a poppy on Remembrance Day to show respect for those who died for us in the war. We are making a poppies out of clay. Then we are putting the poppy in a picture frame. There was also a veteran at the assembly. The first world war was in 1914.