Communications
27200 Hilliard Blvd.
Westlake, OH 44145
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Oct. 15, 2015
SYMBOLIC MIGRATION
For the second year, first grade students at Dover Elementary School and Holly
Lane Elementary School “sent” butterflies on a Symbolic Migration to Mexico as
part of Journey North’s Symbolic Migration 2015-2016 program.
Journey North is a program that educates students across the United States,
Canada and Mexico about butterfly conservation.
Spanish teacher Kelsy Wermer collaborates with Dover first-grade teachers
Karen Glesius, Jennifer Doyle and Julie Hildebrand, and Holly Lane first-grade
teachers Sarah Gorius and Lisa Forshey to create paper butterflies that are sent
to Minnesota, combined with butterflies from other areas of the country, and
then sent on to Mexico, where the monarchs spend the winter.
In the spring, when the monarchs depart from Mexico, the paper butterflies
return north carrying special messages from the students in Mexico, Canada or
from around the United States.
Last year Westlake students received butterflies form more than 20 different
states and three countries. The butterfly migration project creates a connection
between Spanish classes and the International Baccalaureate “Sharing the
Planet” project.
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and to contribute to society