The Grades 4/5 Class teacher told a moving story about her Grandfather who was seriously wounded at Vimy Ridge. The students were encouraged to write a poem or letter about Remembrance Day. Some of the students chose to write a letter home to their parents, as if they were soldiers fighting on the front, while others chose to write poems about Remembrance Day.

The Remembrance Flower By Sara In Flanders Field they grow On the graves they sow Softly in the wind they blow Thirty tanks roll in honor of the old The brave, the bright, and the bold But in Flanders Field some lie cold On the eleventh hour We wear the poppy flower For it is Remembrance Day

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