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Weisenberg Elementary 1st Grade World’s Fair
Week 4:
Garatachea, Mexico
Kenya, Africa to Garatachea, Mexico
Our Trip
• Northwest
• Travel is over a day, with a stop in Atlanta!
• We fly into Mexico City
• Round trip ticket costs over $2,000!
Flag of Mexico
Facts about Mexico• The three colors of Mexico’s flag:
– green represents hope and victory– white stands for the purity of Mexican ideals – red brings to mind the blood shed by the nation’s
heroes. • Mexico has the largest population of Spanish
speakers in the world. • Rich in natural resources that presents a variety
of spectacular landscapes, notable tropical beaches, humid forests, mountains with snowy summits, fertile earth and tempered forests as well as vast deserts.
Monarch Butterfly Migration
• What is migration?
• Monarch Butterflies spend the winter in Mexico (November-March)
• In March, they start flying North through the US and Canada
• These butterflies travel over 1,925 miles
Butterflies from the North
This is the multi-age class (grades 1-6) at "Pedro Ascencio" school in Garatachea, Estado de Mexico. They received butterflies from the U. S. and Canadian schools.
Monarch Caterpillar
Monarch pupa (or chrysalis),
Monarch Butterfly
What is Next?
• Make a Monarch Butterfly
• If you finish, there are coloring and activity pages
• Becoming a Butterfly Experience
• End with a book - Monarch Butterflies of Aster Way
Resources
• http://www.learner.org/cgi-bin/jnorth/jn-query-byday?1228423297
• http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
• http://www.study-mexico.com/english/4/monarch-butterfly-facts.cfm
• http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/monarch_butterfly.htm