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| Symbolic
Migration Update: February 9, 2009 |
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Your
Butterflies in Mexico:
Where Did they Land? |
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| News:
Excitement in the Classroom |
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take a visit to the Mexican schools where students received
your butterfly clusters. You can imagine the excitement the
day that each student got to open his or her own cluster packet.
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This
winter, students like these are caring for over 60,000 symbolic
monarchs made in the United States and Canada.
Your
butterfly clusters brought messages of goodwill and a gift:
a handmade monarch booklet to keep. Each student is writing
a note back to you! |
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| Two
thousand Symbolic Monarchs are overwintering in Saltillo, Coahuila,
the home of the Correo Real monarch education and migration
tracking project. Children here live in the migration pathway.
During the migration, monarchs funnel through the Sierra Madre
Mountains at the rate of thousands per minute! Saltillo is about
400 miles away from their overwintering sites. |
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Jardin
de Ninos-
Saltillo, Coahuila. |
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| How
to Find YOUR Butterflies in Mexico |
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Search
for YOUR butterflies by entering your school or town
name into the Symbolic Migration Search site. View a picture
of the classroom students who are taking care of your butterflies
this winter. It's easy!
- Go
to the search page >>
- Type
in the name of your school or town
- Click
on your school (if duplicates)
- See
a photo of the Mexican classroom students, and scroll down
to find your school's name on the list
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| You
may even recognize one of your paper monarchs! Good Luck! |
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We'll
be back with another report in the spring when we celebrate the
Symbolic Monarchs' return!
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