{"id":22728,"date":"2022-11-11T16:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=22728"},"modified":"2022-11-11T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:21:35","slug":"remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/11\/11\/remembrance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">This week some of the children have noticed Angela\u2019s poppy badge and have been asking why she is wearing it. In honour of Remembrance Day we decided to make our own poppies and discuss the importance of Remembrance Day. This can be a difficult subject for children to understand, so we talk about remembering the soldiers who help to keep us safe and focus on the importance of kindness and celebrating each other\u2019s differences. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">The making of the poppies has been a two part process. We started yesterday by looking at pictures of poppies and discussing the different parts of the flower. We dyed pasta red for the petals, rice black for the seeds and coloured lollipop sticks green for the stems. We then left that to dry to use the next day and made red playdough to make poppies with that day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/875C3FC6-A30E-48C9-888F-3C2288BBCE5E.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22729\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/875C3FC6-A30E-48C9-888F-3C2288BBCE5E-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we observed a two minute silence while watching a CBeebies video about Remembrance Day. The children sat beautifully and we reminded them about the importance of being kind to each other after the video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/9F1D0EDC-B8D5-4EE9-8F50-E8A916788D09.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22737\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/9F1D0EDC-B8D5-4EE9-8F50-E8A916788D09-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cWe need to remember the soldiers that fought in the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the poppies growing in the fields after the war has ended so we then went to make our own poppies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/8BF2F17C-9677-420A-AE21-A0C646C0AC14.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22736\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/8BF2F17C-9677-420A-AE21-A0C646C0AC14-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m making a poppy field. These are the seeds so more can grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at my poppy man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just look at our beautiful designs\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/42892BAD-A81E-40C9-B77C-DFA4DC8A8191.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22731\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/11\/42892BAD-A81E-40C9-B77C-DFA4DC8A8191-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week some of the children have noticed Angela\u2019s poppy badge and have been asking why she is wearing it. In honour of Remembrance Day we decided to make our own poppies and discuss the importance of Remembrance Day. This can be a difficult subject for children to understand, so we talk about remembering the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/11\/11\/remembrance-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembrance day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508,2486],"tags":[446062,446364,447115],"class_list":["post-22728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","category-social-studies","tag-kindness","tag-poppies","tag-remembrance-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22744,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22728\/revisions\/22744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}