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Mission

The purpose of the club is to aid in the protection and conservation of natural resources, encourage civic beauty and roadside beautification, stimulate the study of the fine art of gardening and cooperate with other agencies furthering the interest of horticulture and conservation

History

The Mountain Garden Club has been serving Highlands, NC since 1979. Each year members dig and pot hundreds of mountain hardy plants for the club's major fundraiser, a plant sale on Saturday May 22nd 2021. This popular event generates money for college scholarships conservation and educational projects and community gardens.

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5 Fridays of Butteflies

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Mountain Garden Club’s Monarch Butterfly Learning Activities for K and 1st Grade Students at Highlands School

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May ??

Rain
Date
May ??

? to ??
pm
Margie Potts’
and Bonnylin
Covey’s K
classes
# of kids =?
Session 5. Monarch Migration
Objective: Students learn that monarch butterflies spend the
winter in the mountains of Mexico, then fly back to the USA in the
summer.
Outdoor Migration Game - Highlands School Soccer Field and
the girl
Students divide into 4 groups for a relay game. One group goes to
each of these 4 stations.
• Mountains of Mexico
• USA Gulf Coast
• USA Great Lakes
• USA North Carolina
Students at the Mountains of Mexico put on their wings and girl
butterflies pick up eggs (ping pong balls).
Students at all other stations stand in line at the beginning of their
crawl tubes.
The game at the Gulf Coast, Great Lakes and North Carolina
stations proceed in the same way - girls deposit their ‘eggs’ in the
bushel basket, all students crawl through the tubes (larva/pupa),
students done wings at the end of the crawl tube and girl
butterflies pick up ‘eggs’.
The Mountains of Mexico station is different - there is no basket
and no crawl tube. The students spend winter in the Mexican
Mountains (shiver, shiver) and then fly onto the Gold Coast.
The game continues until all students have spent time at each of
the 4 stations.
Classroom activity to reinforce the Monarch
Migration:
• Students color in a ‘dot-to-dot’ monarch
migration on map of North and Central
America.