We participated in Journey North’s annual journey south!
Every year this organization sponsors a symbolic migration that follows in the
footsteps? wingsteps? of the Monarch butterfly. The Monarch is a fantastic ambassador
for North America as it is a beloved inhabitant of all three North American
nations. The continued well-being of this beautiful insect depends on the
cooperation of the US and our good neighbors to the north and south.
We have been working on several projects related to our
research on the Monarch butterfly: writing poetry anthologies, origami art
projects, designing educational games, and writing our research paper! One of
the most interesting activities was the creation of paper ambassador
butterflies that we mailed to Mexico for the winter! These monarchs will be
given to a student from the highlands region of Michoacan, Mexico. This child
will take our butterflies home and protect them from late October until late
February. At that time s/he will take the butterflies back to school so they
can make their return journey to the United States and Canada.
We can track our paper Monarchs on their trek to the oyamel
forests and back. Our school has created two milkweed gardens to help replace a
little bit of the lost habitat in our area. The garden club has been working on
maintaining these gardens to be ready for the migration rush these next few
weeks. We wish our ambassadors buen viaje!
To learn more about the symbolic migration, you can visit http://www.learner.org/jnorth/sm/index.html
To see this week’s slide show, please click on the 10/7/13
link under “Weekly Wrap-Up”.
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