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From: Linda Swentzel (LSwentzel@byramschools.k12.nj.us)
Date: Fri Mar 14 2003 - 14:46:06 EST

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    Dear Journey North,

    Mrs. Swentzel's third grade class from (Byram) Stanhope, NJ spent quite a
    bit of time thinking about the challenge question #10. We read about the
    Children's Monarch Butterfly Reforestation Project and think this is a
    really great project. After looking at the pictures that you shared with us
    before, we can tell this is important.

    We decided that we needed to find out how big a hectare was and checked it
    out, just to have an idea of size. Then we wrote down how many seedlings
    will be planted in 1 hectare. We then figured how many 2,500 seedlings in
    one hectare would fit into 15,000 and we found that it would fit in 6 times.
    The following was the way the class wanted to figure out the problem:

    2,500 seedlings- 1 hectare
    2,500 " - 1 hectare
    2,500 " - 1 hectare
    2,500 " - 1 hectare
    2,500 " - 1 hectare
    2,500 " - 1 hectare
    15,000 = 6 hectares

    This seems like a good start to help reforest the forests of the monarch
    reserve. We wish we could be there to help and to see everything.

    Your friends in NJ



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