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