SchoolsEstela RomeroNovember 29, 2019

"Adolfo López Mateos"

SchoolsEstela RomeroNovember 29, 2019

SCHOOL VISIT.-

Dear friends, we continue to visit, as mentioned, schools located at the closest first belt surrounding to Sanctuary “El Rosario”. It is wonderful to visit all these children who live in these areas, since their bringing-up is so traditional in terms of the way them and their families show high respect to their teachers and their schools. The figure of the teacher in these small villages is one of the most respected and many teachers can even become a very influencing, representing and determining authority in the social life, needs and development of a village itself. Our public education is 100% lay/secular by law, however, in our private educational system (existing only in cities and a few rather large towns), we do have religious schools, which are as highly credited as public schools too. The Monarch full season is just getting started and we can already see a rather good number of local visitors (Mexican) and the first foreigner visitors start to sensibily increase, specially at weekdays when the Sanctuaries are more quiet. We start to have wonderful bright sunny days, which allow for a wonderful spectacle with Monarchs flying all over nectaring and warming themselves up at the sun-rays. Most of these children’s families are making a living on the Sanctuaries’s activities, either as cooks, guards, guides, sellers, etcetera, and Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays most whole families will be all excited to get involved in their jobs at the Sanctuaries!. As every start of the season, children recognized their Ambassador Monarchs arriving to theri schools!. “There our ambassador Monarchs coming from our friends in the North”. “Here our Ambassadors arriving just as real Monarchs land in our forests!”. Our lesson on threatened, endangered and extinct animals in our local forests has resulted highly interesting for children!. They could compare, as done at every school, on a poster that the Symbolic Migrarion sent for gift and somewhat reference on our topic this year, some of the pollinators endangered in USA, and we, our local species also in risk. “According to our grand-parents, we no longer have deer and road-runners and wild cats in our forest. None can assure if we have ever had a species of owls, that is too bad!” —Gabriela, 10, 5th grader said—. “My grand-ma assures we start to see less and less bats, much less salamadras and also frogs and toads”, which is alarming, my family thinks”, —Antonio said with certain air of dispair in his cute face—. “The good news, —Estela told them—, is that we still have most of them, and that we are on very good time to rescue them, helping to restore their habitat!”. The lesson went on playing the “Web of life”game, with the images of those animals, plants and elements in our planet that we could consider threatened, endangered and even extinct in our local ecosystem; once perfectly explained each one of those terms rather new for them, they learned to classify them as the game went on, and learned how importantly they are inevitably related to each other to make their existance possible. Children mentioned so many immediate actions to do in order to start rescuing our flora and fauna: “Plastics!, smoke!, fire!, deforestation!, pesticides!, abuse on water consumption! All that is killing our planet”, —they shouted here and there in the classroom, really sensible and willing to make an immediate and determining change as soon as they learned on the important role of wombs, pollinators, salamandras,etc. They were really happy to show, through their hand-written and decorated letters to be sent to their counterparts in the North, how much they learned during our time together today, how much more they praise nature and how they can exchange knowledge with their northern friends, all this as the link Monarchs mean to our three countries: Canada, United States and México!.