The Locust Valley Central School District commemorated soldiers who fought in World War II through curriculum districtwide. Last year, the district hosted the Remembrance Bowl, a presentation of the football game played between airborne divisions in Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France during the war.
This year, the event is at Cold Spring Harbor High School, but Locust Valley continued to commemorate the soldiers through classroom activities. War re-enactors visited the school and teachers created lessons surrounding different aspects of the war.
Elementary students learned about the symbolic poppy flower and completed a craft alongside the lesson.
Fifth graders at Bayville Intermediate School created parachutes as they learned about the airborne divisions in a lesson led by teachers Christine Arthur and Margaret McDermott.
Middle schoolers watched the “The Sixth of June,” at an assembly, with guest speakers Helen Patton of the Patton Foundation, Jeff Wells of the veteran organization Walk Among Heroes, Cathy Souref of Operation Democracy and French representative of the group Friends of the American Veterans. The speakers answered questions about D-Day.
High school students who completed storytelling projects spoke with artist Jeongmin Kim, filmmaker Doug Stapleton and writer Jeff Stoffer.
The district will continue similar curriculum and projects in future.
flower during a lesson on the plant’s symbolism.
Korean artist Jeongmin Kim, who attended the 80th D-Day commemoration
about paratroopers and created their own parachutes to attach to action figures
Information provided by the Locust Valley Central School District
