20 de Noviembre Elementary, Grades 2 - 6
This school is located in the San Jan Community, Ocampo Ejido and Municipality. This is a rather small school at a small but important community where surrounding forests shelter the outer forest belts of the Monarch Butterflies’ Sanctuary at El Rosario. Most families in this small village live from forest activities. The message of conservation Journey North brings to teachers and children is welcome with great excitment and interest.
On arriving to the school, children suspect that what is in the box might be a surprise for them again this year! They have seen Rocinante VW bug arriving, and they start to come out of their classrooms looking for their Symbolic Monarchs! Once they confirm what is in the box, “hurrahs” and children from other grades come into the classroom destined to gather together to welcome Journey North!
Once in the classroom, Estela shows children how their letters and symbolic Monarchs of goodwill from their student-friends in the United States and Canada have arrived. They ask to share the responsibility for Monarchs’ preservation while in the sanctuaries of Mexico.
Two 6-grade girls shared with Estela and their classmates, showing themselves very proud of what they have learned in the previous visits Journey North has made to the school.
"They have now arrived and will be here until March; when they leave, our letters will be also arriving back to the US and Canada and this way we will announce our friends over there that it is their turn to look for them."
Estela asks to them:
“Why do you think Monarchs choose our region, our forests to come to spend the Winter with us year after year for pehaps thousands or hundreds of thousands of years now?”
“How long do you think it took that these forests became so tightly dense?”
“How long do you think it takes for an Oyamel tree to grow 30 or so meters tall and even nearly one meter wide?”
“How many days a week on going to the forest do you find or hear frogs somewhere?, and some of our exotic birds like Zenzontles, Jilgueros, Ruiseñores, or wild rabbits, or racoons?"
“Imagine for a moment a day waking up and not seeing this beauty around us, or running into or hearing any of these beautiful animals living in our forests, no Monarch butterlies, no tourists anymore?"
“Oh, nooooo! --they all responded in Chorus immediately--!
“Fortunately, we live amidst this wonderful treasure and we must preserve it for our future!
The rest of the time together is all joy, showing each other where their symbolic Monarchs come from according to the map in them and the concern that their letters will result as nice and expresive as the gifts received today!
Butterflies Received
This school received Ambassador Butterflies from the following U.S. and Canadian Schools:
Licking Valley Intermediate School, Newark, OH
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Ecole Berrigan, Nepean, ON
Union Elementary STEM, Gallatin, TN
Bala Cynwyd School for Young Children, Bala Cynwyd, PA
Lincoln School, Morton, IL
Groveton High School, Groveton, NH
Barre Town School, Barre, VT
Robert Seaman School, Jericho, NY
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