5th Graders Launch 'Symbolic' Monarch Butterflies

The fifth grade has been working through Journey North to study butterfly migration. As part of their studies, they created one large monarch butterfly out of paper and a series of small origami monarch butterflies. As the finale to their project, they mailed the large monarch to students in Mexico, where monarchs go in the south migration, along with a note in Spanish. The smaller origami butterflies were sent to other students in the US. The 5th grade posted the sending of their Symbolic Monarchs on Journey North and that can be found live at https://maps.journeynorth.org/map/?map=symbolic-monarch-sent&year=2019. In the spring, when monarchs begin migrating north, our students will receive symbolic butterflies from around the country as well.