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School website Piney Point Elementary School Twitter feed 1175+ students from more than 45 countries served by an almost equally diverse 100+ staff. 100% Title I 85% LEP PINEY POINT MONARCH HEROES Why Monarch Heroes? Authentic -

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Piney Point Elementary

School website School Twitter feed

1175+ students from more than 45 countries served by an almost equally diverse 100+ staff. 100% Title I 85% LEP

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PINEY POINT MONARCH HEROES

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Why Monarch Heroes?

Authentic - Learning Leadership Stewardship

Experiences

21st Century Skills Collaboration Communication - ESL Problem Solving Empowers students Promotes Civic Values and a Service Mind-set

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Best Student Moments

All of them!

BEST STUDENT MOMENTS

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KICKOFF

Journey North Symbolic Migration
Students watched videos relating to
Life cycle
Habitat requirements
Threats
Migration
Make ambassador butterflies
Activity pages about appearance
Design Class Butterfly
Fill out Class Information Page

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PLANNING

Group meeting to discuss becoming

“Monarch Heroes”

Expectations for:
Behavior
Research
Hard work
Advocacy
Toured campus to identify best locations.
Compiled list of native host & nectar

plants.

Student groups submitted garden design

ideas.

All of these were put to a vote in the

Monarch Hero classrooms.

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Raising Awareness

Need for additional funds – need

to involve the wider community

Monarch Money campaign
Jugs
Daily ads
Posters
Weekly newsletter blurb
Incentive/recognition

program

Parent volunteers

made our “upcycled” butterfly rewards

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BUILD DAY

Set tanks in place
Bucket brigade our 10

cubic yards of soil into the planters

Plant our selected host

and nectar plants

Plants purchased

from HMNS plant sale & Houston Arboretum Native Milkweed Sale with Monarch Money funds.

Set out in beds

according to student design

Make garden tags

from old library dividers

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CELEBRATE!

Garden Party Prep
Set up events
Seed bombs
Tin tinting
Garden tours
Send out sign-up schedule
Advertise event on morning

announcements

Make models
Rehearse!
Party!

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4/22/16 Earth Day!

This is one of Piney Point’s biggest celebration

every year!

Each grade level takes charge of a different

activity

1st grade was leading informational tours of
ur Monarch Hero habitats!
Plural! We renovated and replanted a

habitat that had been destroyed when

ur Spark Park was installed

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Last year and this we integrated the

Monarch Hero identity into every aspect of the students’ campus life. In addition to the large-scale Monarch Hero projects they:

performed a Reader’s Theater

they wrote based on their study

f the Monarch Migration for

Mini Reading Fair.

created a Mini Science Fair

project related to the Monarch Life-Cycle

wore cereal box Monarch wings

for their “graduation” ceremony

made the project the

centerpiece of their iEarn Day In The Life video for their sister school in Taiwan.

Start video at 2.16

click image and advance video to 2.16

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Acknowledgments

Monarch Heroes would not be possible without the generous support and material assistance of:

Piney Point PTO Our 1st grade teaching team National Wildlife Federation Journey North Fund For Teachers Home Depot Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church

Thank You!

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