Welcome to the computer lab, boys and girls,
Today, you will be responding to this post in the comment area with the answers to several questions. Please plan your response carefully (on stickies, on a Word Document, etc.).
Remembrance Day is coming up and we will be commemorating this solemn occasion at our school on Friday. In order to prepare, please read the following questions and respond to your choice of four of them in full sentences with lots of detail. Use your Writer's Workshop Tools to help your writing.
Questions (select AT LEAST four to respond to in the comment area):
-What do we remember on Remembrance Day?
-Who do we remember on Remembrance Day?
-Where did the events occur that we remember?
-When do all Canadians celebrate Remembrance Day?
-Why is it so important to remember?
-Can you "remember" something that you were not a part of? Explain.
-How do we remember on Remembrance Day?
-Our class will be contributing a wreath for the Remembrance Day ceremony at our school. What should our wreath look like? What symbols should it include?
Some words you may consider using in your response:
-freedom
-democracy
-sacrifice
-veteran
Some Important Vocabulary:
commemorating - similar to celebrating, but in a serious way
solemn - serious
occasion - a special event that comes once in a while
Some helpful resources for you to gather information and evidence to back up your ideas:
Kids' Zone Veteran Affairs Canada
Some children and teachers talking about war and remembrance
Why the poppy?
Question answered: What do we remember on Rememberance Day? In the wars, many canadian soldiers died. In a place called Flanders Feilds, in France, they were all buried there.
ReplyDeleteFlanders Feilds was a feild of poppies, which
represent all the soldiers that fought bravely.
We wear the poppy on our shirts to REMEMBER the soldiers.
-Millie =D
Hi Millie,
DeleteDo you know which war is linked to Flander's Fields?
Shauna
WWI! WWI!
DeleteHello Shauna,
DeleteNo, I don't think I do.
But I think I could research that when I get home!
Now I know! World War 1!!!!
DeleteAll Canaidians celabrate Remenbrance day on November 11. This year remambrance day is on a sunday.
ReplyDelete-Finley
Finley,
DeleteDo you like it better when Remembrance Day falls on a school day or a weekend?
Shauna
We remember brave soldiers who sacrificed their life's in war.
ReplyDeleteWe commemorate remembrance day on November 11th.
The events occurred in many places.
-Jack
Jack,
DeleteWhat are some examples of places where wars took place that Canadians have been involved in?
Shauna
Canadians have thought in the war of 1812.one of the most famouse parts of that war is a woman named Laura Secourd, who ran a very long way to warn the canadians about an Americen attack.(by the way Laura Secourd did not make chocolates.
Delete-Jack
And for who do we remember, well, that is simalar to what we remember. We remember all the canadian soldiers that fought bravely for us.
ReplyDelete-Millie =D
We celebrate Rememberance day on 11\11. We Remember the people who fought in wars we were a part of. I Remember my Granpa who fixed anks on the battlefeild in WWII. I think we should glue photos of people we know who are vetrans onto the wreath.
ReplyDeletePat,
DeleteDo you have a photo of your Grandpa that you could bring in to share?
Shauna
Yes I do, infact, I have an entire album!
Deletehow = we waer poppy's
ReplyDeletewhy =the people that what to war sacrifice their live for us
what =soldiers
who = people that go to war
kaleigh
Hi Kaleigh,
DeleteYou have some good information here, but don't forget, these answers should be in full sentences!
Shauna
People risk there life to help us
ReplyDelete-Ethan
Hi Ethan,
DeleteWho are the people that risk their lives for us? Can you be more specific in your answers?
Shauna
We canadians remember evrything on Sunday, November 11th.
ReplyDeleteBut since we are not at school then, we celebrate at school on Friday, November 9th.
-Millie =D
Hi Millie,
DeleteWill you be commemorating Remembrance Day at home with your family this Sunday as well?
Shauna
You bet I will
DeleteIt is important to remember all of the Canadians who sacrificed their lives for freedom.
ReplyDelete-Finley
I agree!
DeleteWhat do we rumemmber on rumemmberince day?We rumember how thay gave there life for us.Who do we rumemmber on rumemmbirence day?The solders that go to battle.How we rumemmber them is we gather in a number and have a minit of silence.Can you rumemmber something that you were not apart fo?The real rumemmberince day saramony.
ReplyDelete-Lauren
Hi Lauren,
DeleteYou've got some good ideas here, but your comment is a little difficult to read due to spelling problems. I have written the correct spelling for "remember" and "Remembrance" several times in my post above. Please check your spelling before posting!
Ok.
Delete-Lauren
We remember the people who fought for are country.
ReplyDeleteWe were poppys.
Are wreath should be a peace symbole and evryone should make a little poppy to put on it.
we were poppys and remember the great things the
that people did for us.
MEL:D
Hi Mel,
DeleteYou have some excellent ideas here. Thanks for sharing.
You used some homonyms in your comment and many are mixed up. Take a look at words like "are" and "our"!
THANKS SHAUNA I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN.
DeleteMEL=$
What we remember is all of the people who fought for us and died for us.
ReplyDeleteWhy I think it's so important to remember is all the families who lost their loved ones.
What I think we should put on the wreath are our hands, cut them out, and then put words in them, of our choice, or a poem.
When we remember is on November 11th every year and this year, it's going to be Sunday.
-by Gabby (scribed by Shauna)
-Who do we remember on Remembrance Day?
ReplyDeleteThe soldiers who fought for us
Remember to sign out of your account, I'm not on mine because I usually forget to sign out.
Delete-Millie =D
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ReplyDeleteOn Remeberanceday I think of people not war
ReplyDelete-Ethan
Hi Ethan,
DeleteThat's a very interesting idea. I like it very much. Which people do you think of in particular?
on remberance day we all remember people from
ReplyDeleteour country who died.we can wear poppies.
our wreath should at least include poppies peace
symbols and peaceful things like flowers
-Erika
Thank you, Erika.
Deleteyour welcome shauna!
Delete-Erika
I personally think that the wreath that we make should be green
ReplyDeletetissue paper and some branches, (twigs), and then some red tissue paper poppies with a black middle in the poppies.
-Millie =D
South Africa, Europe, Iraq, and Afganastan are some of the many.
ReplyDeleteThe many what?
Delete(Replyed shaunas Reply of jack's comment).
DeleteHi Pat,
DeleteYou can reply my comment directly below it by clicking on "reply" there!
remembrance day is on novembre 11 -reilly
ReplyDeleteWe remember soldiers that died in the war by doing their job.
ReplyDeleteIt is important to remember because my great-grandpa he survived the war and was a veteran.
by Haydon
Wow, Haydon. Did you ever meet your great-grandpa and hear his stories about war?
DeleteQuestions: - When do all Canadians celebrate Remembrance Day? - What do we remember on Remembrance Day? - Who do we remember on Remembrance Day? - How do we remember on Remembrance Day?
ReplyDeleteAnswers:
1- We all celebrate (commemorate) on November the 11th every year.
2- All the lives that were lost at battle.
3- All the Men (and Women) who spent their lives to save our country.
4- We remember solemnly by wearing poppies.
Hi Camden,
DeleteThank you for your responses. I'd love to see you make a post on your blog about Remembrance. Do you know how to make links?
Rememberance day Questions and answers!
ReplyDeleteQ:
What do we remember on remembrance day?
A:
We remember all the people who fought for us in war, and sacrifice there lives for ours!!!
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Q:
Who do we remember on remembrance day?
A:
We remember everybody in war who are fighting for us and Cananda to have peace.
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Q:When do Canadians remember?
A:We remember on November 11th, 11:11am every year.
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Q:How do we remember on rememberance day??
A:We remember by Having a moment of silence, and wearing poppys on our chest!!!
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I have a good idea for the wreath!!
We could do poppys and doves and then in the middle we could have a letter on what we think on rememberance day and that kind of things maybe?????
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Truly,
-Fiona
Hi Fiona,
DeleteThank you for your responses. I really like the thought you put into them and the way you organized your post!
wow fiona you took alot of thought and space in your response!
Delete-erika
what do we remember on remembrance day
ReplyDeletewe remember how soldiers fought for are country hew dided.
molly
I remember my GREAT GRANDMA who was a messanger in WWII
ReplyDeletehunter:(
Hi Hunter,
DeleteThanks for your post. Did you ever meet your Great-Grandma and hear her stories?
COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteI remember that either my Great Grandfather or Great Great Grand father was in WWll.
Also my dad was once a soldier so he can get into the War Museum FOR FREE!!!!
Wy do we have to where popes for remberance day
ReplyDeleteEthan
Hi Ethan,
DeleteOne of the links I put at the bottom of my post explains that! Check it out!
what do we do on remembrence day we remember the people who were willing to fight for us -reilly
ReplyDeleteWe remember brave soldiers that made sacrifice there life's for are country.
ReplyDeleteThere were many places were the events occurred.
We remember on November 11th
We remember by giving out poppys and having a remember ceremonys.
Thomas!
DeleteHi Thomas,
DeleteCan you name any of the locations where events occured?
my great grand father served in the war he indured his leg but he survived in the war -reilly
ReplyDeleteReilly,
DeleteDid you ever meet your great-grandfather and hear his stories about life in war?
-How do we remember on Remembrance Day?
ReplyDeleteWe give out poppy's
ReplyDeleteA writer first made the connection between the poppy and battlefield deaths during the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century, remarking that fields that were barren before battle exploded with the blood-red flowers after the fighting ended.
DeleteDuring the tremendous bombardments of the First World War the chalk soils became rich in lime from rubble, allowing 'popaver rhoeas' to thrive. When the war ended the lime was quickly absorbed, and the poppy began to disappear again.
After John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields was published in 1915 the poppy became a popular symbol for soldiers who died in battle.
Three years later an American, Moina Michael, was working in a New York City YMCA canteen when she started wearing a poppy in memory of the millions who died on the battlefield.
During a 1920 visit to the United States a French woman, Madame Guerin, learned of the custom. On her return to France she decided to use handmade poppies to raise money for the destitute children in war-torn areas of the country. In November, 1921, the first poppies were distributed in Canada.
Thanks to the millions of Canadians who wear flowers each November, the little red plant has never died. And neither have Canadian's memories for 116,031 of their countrymen who died in battle.
Hi Miguel,
DeleteI want you to make sure to use your own words when you write a comment and not just copy something that you found online.
Remberance day is really inporten to Canada and me
ReplyDeleteEthan
years of war men do diy war dusnot end but we can all still remember today by hadie
ReplyDeleteWHO people who fought in the great war
ReplyDeleteWHEN on november 11th
I can remember my Great Grandma
HUNTER):
-WHO DO WE remember on rememberance day .
ReplyDelete-When do all canadians celebrate rememberance day.
-How do we remember on rememberance.
-Why is it important to remember day.
ANSWER
1-WE REMEMDER because the soldiers fought in the war.
2-on the 11\11
3-decause it is on 11\11
4-because we remember.
When I think of remberance I thinkn of love
ReplyDeleteEthan
That's an interesting idea, Ethan. Can you tell me more about that?
DeleteWe remember for all the soldiers that went to the war to be free
ReplyDelete-What do we remember on Remembrance Day?
ReplyDeleteBrave soldiers
what do we rememer on rememerance day how the soljers fought for are country :) daniel
ReplyDeletepop pop pop!!! popys to!!! remember by had
ReplyDeleteCan you ''remember'' something that you were not a part of?Yes you can because the story is so important we remember what the soldiers fought for they fought for us.
ReplyDeleteWhen do all Canadians celebrate Remembrance day?We celebrate it on Nov, 11 11.11amfor 2 min..
-by Vickie
where did the events that we remember happen:
ReplyDeleteworld war 1 happened was mainly fought in europe,especially northeastern france,belgium,northeastern italy,and present-day poland,serbia and romania.
world war 2 was a truly world conflict,even more extensive than the great war 30 years earlier.the theater ranged from westurn europe to africa and separatelyin the western pasific,were japan had begun their empire by atacking china in 1937.the united states of america forally enterd the second world war in december 1914 when the japenese attacked pearl harber.
-sophia
Hi Sohia,
DeleteI can see you have gathered lots of information here, but it is very important that you make sure the information is in your own words before you post it. The best way to do that is to read, cover, remember and then write.
Shauna
Where did the events occur that we rememeber? the events occur on nomasland where most soldiers dided and vary many poeple lived.
ReplyDeleteHow do we remember on Remembrance Day? We have a moment of silence at 11:11 and we stand for five minutes and think about how soldiers fought for our country and kept our country safe.
ReplyDelete-by Molly (scribed by Shauna)
Why we commemorate rememberence day is because millions of soldiers
ReplyDeletegave there lives not just for there family but for their nation
and their people and the country.
Adam
That is true.
DeleteWe remember the soldiers that were so brave
ReplyDeleteand we should be very gratefull
Hi anonymous writer you forgot to put up your name!!
Delete-Zane ;)
What do we remember on Rememberance Day? We remember all of the solders who sacrificed themselves to save their family, and who fought for their nation. Rememberance Day is a day to remember!
ReplyDelete$arah
hi $arah I think you got the idea very easy
Deleteit was reeeaaaaaaaaaalllly good
thanks for telling me
@Adam@
Why we commerate Rememberence day is because
ReplyDeletemillions of soldiers died being brave and protecting this
country for not them but for us and the nation and country's
people I think you have to be very brave to go to warr because
you have almost a 70% chance of being dead but at the end of the war poppies started to grow and that is the resemelence of
Rememberence day
@Adam@
We should be very thankful for our solders!
Delete
ReplyDeleteWhat do we remember on Remembrance Day?
Who do we remember on Remembrance Day?
When do all Canadians celebrate Remembrance Day?
Why is it so important to remember?
On Remembrance Day we remember all the soldiers that died in war. We remember all the soldiers that died in war. We celebrate Remembrance Day on November 11. It is is important that we honor our soldiers.
-Zane ;)
I think we should be verry greatfull and thankfull and honoroble.
ReplyDelete@dam
On Remembrance Day, we rember the brave soldiers who died saving our lives.
ReplyDeleteOlivia
-What do we remember on Remembrance Day?
ReplyDeleteWe remember the soldiers who sacrificed themselves in a lot of wars.
-Where did the events occur that we remember?
The tragic events happened in America (Pearl Harbour) , Europe and Asia.
-When do all Canadians celebrate Remembrance Day?
All Canadians mark Remembrance Day at 11 AM on November the 11th.
-Why is it so important to remember?
Because if the soldiers had not sacrificed their lives in combat to give us freedom we would not be living in this same lifestyle.
James