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The Poppy Remembrance Day November 11 A Remembrance Day Poppy Art Activity For Grade 5 Students Slide 2 What is the poppy for? To help us remember the sacrifice soldiers and veterans gave for our country. Slide 3 Whose idea was it to use the poppy? Slide 4 Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae Born in Guelph, Ontario on Novmeber 30 th, 1872. Canadian doctor, serving in France during World War 1. Died January 28 th, 1918 in France of pneumonia (age 46). Author of the poem In Flanders Fields. Slide 5 Where is Flanders Fields? Flanders is an area in the countryside of northern France and Belgium. Its about 6,000 Km from Lieutenant-Colonel McCraes home in Guelph. Slide 6 Slide 7 Slide 8 IN FLANDERS FIELDS In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between 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. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae Slide 9 What is the poppy campaign for? To raise money to help support veterans and their family members. Slide 10 Making our own poppies Step 1: Slide 11 Step 2: Slide 12 Step 3: Slide 13 Step 4: Slide 14 Step 5: Slide 15 Step 6: Slide 16 What is the poppy for? To help us remember the sacrifice soldiers and veterans gave for our country.