Symbolic Migration Project-Timeline

Timeline: 2024-2025

Before Oct. 18. 2024: Introducing the Project

• Introduce Symbolic Migration Project by using any of these Journey North Teaching Suggestions (Activities #1-6)
• Follow the directions in the Symbolic Migration Leader Packet and mail your Ambassador Butterfly and enclosures by postmark date Oct. 18. 2024.

November 2024 - March 2025: Learn about the Monarch's winter home in Mexico.

• Read about your Class Ambassador Butterfly in Mexico on the Symbolic Migration website! Use the search function at the top right of the Symbolic Migration website to locate school/group/family or your town. Check back weekly! Deliveries begin mid-November and are usually completed by late February or early March.
• Read about the fall migration of real monarch butterflies by following Journey North news updates. 
• Learn more about monarch life cycle and migration available on Journey North Monarch Butterfly Resource pages.

April 2025: Continue the Cycle of Friendship

• Watch your mailbox! You will receive an envelope with clusters of life-sized butterflies and a letter from a Mexican student in ample time for a Cinco de Mayo (May 5) homecoming celebration.
• VERY IMPORTANT: Report the arrival of individual life-sized butterflies by contacting teachers directly. Teacher’s emails will be on every life-sized butterfly. Please make time for this important step! Children will be waiting to find out where their own butterflies landed.