“Silent now the soldiers sleep, their tales long laid to rest
I knew them not yet still I weep and place a poppy o’er my breast.”– Debbie Holick
Here is a little help for planning your Remembrance Day Activities.
1.
Do a Remembrance Day activity from one of the following:
- Read a Remembrance Day Book (see Related Books below)
- Watch a Remembrance Day Video
- Remembrance Day Video (all ages) 5 min.
- Remembrance Day Vignettes (all ages) 30 sec. each
- Front Lines & the Trenches (middle grade and up) 9 min.
- View WWI Primary Source Photographs and discuss them
- Complete a lesson
2.
Learn about John McCrae and read his poem, ‘In Flander’s Fields‘.
3.
Do a Remembrance Day Craft or Colouring Page
4.
One minute of silence
5.
Sing ‘O Canada’
