The children in my care learn a great deal from participating in the world around them and as they are currently 3 to 4 years old I thought they would understand the basics of Armistice Day. We started by watching a short film on the computer that explained why we wear poppies and the children all recognised the importance of the number 11.
We then created some pictures of the poppies that the children noted they had seen lots of people wearing and talked about how these poppies showed people were remembering the soldiers. They used their finger prints to create their own field of poppies and, once the pictures were dry, used green markers to draw on the stalks of their poppies. Our eldest (8 years old) wrote out a poem on her picture.
On November 11th we talked about the purpose of the 2 minute silence and I turned on the television so that the boys could see people around the country preparing for this. At 11am the boys participated in the 2 minute silence with the rest of the country.
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