This week we have been thinking of all the soldiers who serve their countries and how they protect us. We thought of how brave they were and are.
Tune Frere Jacques
"See the soldiers.
See the soldiers.
Oh so brave!
Oh so brave!
Fighting for our freedom,
Fighting for our freedom,
You're so brave
You're so brave."
We spent time thinking about not only the soldiers but the other people and animals war can affect. We watched a lovely presentation about a rabbit which all the children were able to relate to.
To finish our remembrance we looked at the poppies coming through in the fields and talked about how we wear a poppy on Remembrance Day to remind us of all the soldiers.
We let off balloons into the sky to remember those that have gone and played with others outside like poppy seeds floating sharing our love for those still fighting for us.
In Flanders fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
By Major John McCrae – 1915 - Boezinge
