Remembrance Day Sharing

The students of Room 211 did themselves proud on Friday as hosts of our annual Remembrance Day ceremony.  Members of our room set up the gym with artwork and equipment, greeted visitors, made all of the introductions between classes, and explained details about this special day, such as the meaning of Last Post and Reveille.  In addition to these duties, our class made a special presentation to explain our "Missing Soldier place setting" project.  

Everyone in the class either spoke some lines to explain the reasoning and symbolism of our place setting, or they had an "acting " role demonstrating to the audience exactly what made up the setting.  With this project was all about is basically an empty place setting that we were bringing around to each classroom at nutrition break that was meant to symbolize a soldier who fought in defence of freedom in one of the conflicts since World War I.  Take time to ask your child about the symbolism of the white place setting, the empty chair, the upside down cup, the slice of lemon, the pinch of salt, the poppy, or the origami crane.  Hopefully they can explain most of these symbols.