After you send your butterflies
Welcome to the 2010 Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration
The "Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration" is starting! Just as the real monarch butterflies are migrating south to their wintering site in Mexico, students are making hand-crafted butterflies carrying messages of goodwill to the students in Mexico.
Today's
Report Includes:
- Notice: New Instructions for 2010
- Deadline Approaching: Postmark by Tuesday, October 12
- Prepare Students: Fall Lessons
- Help: Monarch Butterfly Fund
- News: Report from Angangueo, Mexico
Make and Send Your Class Butterfly!
Instructions for 2010 have changed. Be sure to read the Teacher Packet to learn about the changes. All you need to know is found inside the packet.
The packet includes step-by-step instructions. Simply print a copy for reference and planning.
Mail your butterfly and its contents by the postmark deadline: October 12, 2010. Sorry, no exceptions.
Report to Fall Symbolic Migration map after you send your butterfly on its journey. After reporting your class will appear on the map. Participating classrooms across North America can connect.
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Symbolic Migration is an annual exchange that fosters friendship,
conservation, and ambassadorship between children across North
America. As you prepare to send your paper ambassadors to Mexico, use these lessons to help reinforce the spirit and objectives of the Symbolic Monarch Migration. |
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You
may want to make an optional donation to the Monarch Butterfly
Fund (MBF). Your donation provides financial and scientific
support to protect the wintering habitat of the monarch butterfly.
If you
are able to make a donation to MBF, on the outside of your shipping
envelope be sure to proclaim, "We're Helping Monarchs!"
Many readers have asked about the rebuilding of Angangueo after last February's flood. Estela Romero, Journey North's local reporter, sends an update. She shares a true sign of her family's strong spirit: Their store--that had been open for 91 years without interruption--has reopened! Here's Estela:
"Dear Journey North friends, A new season is opening in our region. As we await the Monarch´s arrival we want to say HELLO to you in several different ways:
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Our family store has reopened!
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Stay Tuned: The Next Symbolic Monarch Migration Update Will be Posted
in October 15, 2010.