SchoolsEstela RomeroNovember 21, 2019

"Emiliano Zapata" II

SchoolsEstela RomeroNovember 21, 2019

SCHOOL VISIT.-

Our school visits continue coming back to elementary “Emilino Zapata”, the second largest elementary school in “El Rosario” Sanctuary area. We visited this school a few days ago, and the principal asked the Symbolic Migration to please come back to the children attending the afternoon shift, so here we are!!!. Well, our topic of the seson to deliver to schools, “threatened, endangered and extinct animal and plant species at the Monarchs’ Oyamel forests”, has allowed to lots of reflections on our children. A big poster as gift is being part of the donated material to each school, and, by looking at it, children learn from Estela that all over the world, nature is loosing animal and plant species. “We also have bats like here in the poster!”; “I believe we have this bird too!”; “Oh, so our friends in the north are also seeing after this problem there where they live too?”., “And what are they doing to protect them?”, “Are they loosing more species than we do here?”, “Is this worse in other parts of our planet?”, “Do they learn a lot of this at school?” , “Which subjects do they attend, are theirs too different than ours?”. Indeed, the text books of our public educational system children work on at school, include Science as subject through which the topic on Nature Conservation has become an overall central aspect for our children and youngsters generations and them as the future guardians of our planet. Our current public educational system for elementary schools has just been modified and is just being applied thi sschool year, involving subjects which aim to coming back to a more humanistic formation of our nowadays generations, which we had lost humanistic focus for years. “We have stopped hunting birds, frogs, toads, and rabbits, really, teacher Estelita; our grandpas did it because in those times they say they were very poor and did not have what to eat other than corn, wild potatoes and greens, now our parents have jobs at the Sanctuary when the Monarchs are here and in reforestation and forest conservancy while Monarchs are away, so no need to hunt animals anymore”, —Basilio, a boy in the class stated—. “Also my grandma says that our medicine herbs in the forest shall be not grabbed from the very roots, but we should only take some leaves or a small part of the plant, but never cut it off from the very roots, so that we have them forever in the forest”, —Alina completed—. The Principal at school —an exceptional teacher whose devotion to the school and the children has made from this school one of the most disciplined school where even English is tought since teachers now must attend English lessons to teach their students basic English language at school—, showed us: “We re-use plastics to build up their own laboratory equipment; several small steps in direction to conservation, teacher Estelita”, —he told me—. playing the “Game of Life”, they could see how one single species dissapearing from the planet can cause a severe affectation to a whole ecosystem, “and ours has already lost a few species”, several of them said with concern. “There the urgent important for conservation for all what is moving around us, for all what is green around us”, —Estela closed the presentation—. Children kept their ambassador monarchs as their precious gift for the season, many of them ilustrating the life-cycle of the Monarch butterflies, which they will never see here in our forests, since “the Mathusalen Generation only comes to overwinter and mate here with us, but will lay their eggs until we leave, since there would be no Asclepias enough to eat, to grow, and to become strong Monarch butterflies if they would not leave to the north”, —Estela explained to them—. Children left jumping, whishling, running in excitment home, taking advantage of a pick-up truck passing by from a most likely known family from the location which simply slowed down without really stopping for children to jump up and get a ride to drop the ones living further away (2 kilometers the furthest at the most), back home!. Every day is different, every day is excitment, learning, laughing, and seeing how our brave and and free life in the countryside make our children so happy growing here!!!.

SYMBOLIC MONARCHS RECEIVED HERE.-

Seven Hills School- Lotspeich, Cincinnati, Ohio

Indian Hill Primary School, Cincinnati, Ohio

Venice Heights Elementary School, Sandusky, Ohio

Holston View Elementary School, Bristol, Tennessee

Providence Day School, Charlotte, North Carolina

The North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville, North Carolina

Ringwood School Primary Center, Ringwood, Illinois

Asa Adams School, Oorno, Maine

Berrien Elementary School, Nashville, Georgia

Lakeside Elementary, Lake Village, Arkansas

Rockledge Elementary School, Woodbridge, Virginia

Hillandale Elementary, East Flat Rock, North Carolina

Pleasant Grove Elementary, Stockbridge, Georgia

Good Shepherd Episcopal School, Richmond, Virginia

Tolland Intermediate School, Tolland, Connecticut

Mother Natures Classroom LLC, Loveland, Ohio

East Farms School, Farmington, Connecticut

Maple Avenue Elementary, Goffstown, New Hampshire

New Hope Christian Academy, Memphis, Tennessee

Rockledge Elementary School, Woodbridge, Virginia

Oak Grove Elementary School, Atlanta, Georgia

Rockledge Elementary School, Woodbridge, Virginia

Conover Road Elementary, Colts Neck, New Jersey

Clinton Elementary School, Clinton, Illinois

Nixon Elementary, Hiawatha, Iowa

Christ Church Episcopal School, Greenville, South Carolina

Conover Road Elementary, Colts Neck, New Jersey

The Cooper School, Charleston, South Carolina

Conover Road Elementary, Colts Neck, New Jersey

Brookfield Christian School, Brookfield, Wisconsin

Providence Day School, Charlotte, North Carolina

Engage Nature Inc, Lafayette, Indiana

Nazareth Area Intermediate School, Nazareth, Pennsylvania

New Hope Christian Academy, Memphis, Tennessee

Hope Valley Elementary School, Hope Valley, Rhode Island

Nazareth Area Intermediate School, Nazareth, Pennsylvania

The School at Columbia University, New York, New York

Nazareth Area Intermediate School, Nazareth, Pennsylvania

The Evergreen School, Shoreline, Washington

Crest Memorial School, Wildwood Crest, New Jersey

Lakewood Elementary Girl Scouts, Dallas, Texas

Sacred Heart Greenwich, Greenwich, Connecticut

Saint Andrews Episcopal School, Austin, Texas

Estela Romero