Log Church Christian School class studies Memorial Day, National Poppy Day

BREWSTER – The Tuskegee Airmen, World War I Flanders Fields, the origin of National Poppy Day - these are just a few of the topics researched, written, and spoken by Shan Miller’s fifth and sixth grade students at the Log Church Christian School learned leading up to the observance of both days.

“We buddied up and one of the buddies did a Poppy Day report and the other did Memorial Day,” said Miller. “I really worked at the children trying to dig a little bit deeper to find some different things about Memorial Day and National Poppy Day.”

Two of those students, Addie Boesel and Grace Isenhart, read their joint report as an example of some of the interesting facts the class learned during the course of their studies. Others explained that one of the factors that caused the poppies to flourish on the French and Belgium battlefields of Passchendaele and Ypres – the Flanders Fields – was the bombing and ordnance that worked up the earth and added nutrients such as nitrogen to the soil.

Later that day the class went into the community to distribute poppies firsthand.

“We talked about it, we studied about it, we made sure all of our teachers had poppies,” said Miller said adding that the class would be at Brewster Marketplace and Triangle Exxon mini mart giving out poppies there as well.

Miller said a future class project will get the class more involved with the Brewster-Bridgeport-Pateros Senior Center. She said she has spoken with Center President Charlene Knox about regular class visits.

“I want the kids to have a regular day that we go over and play games and do board games,” said Miller.