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Adolfo López Mateos Elementary, Grades 3, 4, and 6 At almost 9 am it's time to go to school; children walk along the main street, paths, across the now harvested corn crops, from up and down the village to reach school. All of the children walk to school. Every single community in our region has its own kindergarten, Elementary and even middle school: but only the main communities (depending on the number of inhabitants), have some other public services, among them, high school level. In all this region, only the main community, “El Rosario”, has got High School for all the students in the surrounding communities to attend. A really high population. Every two months, moms of every family in every community are addressed by the local government to receive by-monthly financial support for their childrens’ education. They are shown here meeting at the Papeleria (stationery) store. A support program by the State all over the country. As soon as Rocinante VW arrives to the school, children immediatly go silently to it, in order to peep-into the windows - trying to guess what he is bringing, “Our paper Monarchs?"
Life cycle line of Monarch butterflies; this allows them to clearly understand the reason Monarchs arrive here in the fall and leave right at the beginning of the spring. They simply find it a wonder to hear about the way Monarchs reproduce. They cannot belive it when Estela tells them that from the 400-600 eggs every Female Adult Monarch lays, an average of 1-2 % will survive and will become Monarchs. Children get anxious to start writing the letters to their counterparts; as they describe what we have in our surrounding, they wonder what the surroundings of American and Canadian children look like. This they hope to see in pictures when they have their symbolic Monarchs in their hands. Children very excited look at their Symbolic Butterflies and remove their gifts. They are wondering whether their letter will be a nice gift for them!. “It will indeed be,” they hope, “the momento they see our drawings made with our own hands, that will be a nice gift from us to them”, most of them respond proudly. Gifts given to teachers to enjoy with their students include, “Manualidades de Fieltro,” “Abremente, and “La Constitución para Niños.” Break time with fruits and candies they can buy for 2 or 3 pesos each. * Note: The old tradition of mothers preaparing lunch for their children for breaktime at school is almost lost. This is a great loss on the aspect of nutrition for their own children. The schools do not offer any lunch service at all for children. Many children will have a light breakfast in the morning, like bread with tea or with milk, a tortilla filled with some beans, or an egg at the most. Perhaps not enough until they are back from school to have dinner with the rest of the family. Final images are scenes from the town where a market is set up. Butterflies Received Clarksburg C-2 School, Clarksburg, MO
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