Students ask Poly community to support their effort to sustain the Monarchs
By Sherlyn Burns, kindergarten assistant teacher and After School Program teacher
Roots and Shoots, the brainchild of Jane Goodall, was created to give youth the opportunity to meet challenges and resolve issues in their own communities. Youth-led and youth-driven, students tackle issues concerning people, animals, and the environment.
This year, students in grades 4-6 in Poly's After School Program decided to help sustain the endangered Monarch population by planting a Monarch butterfly waystation. They rehabilitated Wendy's Garden (the garden area just outside of Munger building dedicated to longtime Poly supporter Wendy Munger) by planting milkweed and other butterfly-friendly vegetation to help sustain the butterflies on their migration. Milkweed plants are where Monarchs lay their eggs, and caterpillars eat the leaves.
The students also launched a campaign to encourage Poly families to plant milkweed in their own gardens by providing coupons offered by Armstrong Garden Center. On a recent field trip, the nursery staff gave advice to the students about a variety of plants for the waystation, provided a discount on the plants, and enthusiastically agreed to support the students' efforts by offering a coupon for distribution to the Poly community by the Roots and Shoots group. The students encourage all members of the Poly community to stop by the Pasadena location before March 31 to purchase (be sure to bring the coupon for a 15% discount!) and plant milkweed in their own garden to expand the waystation in the Pasadena area, which will help the Monarchs on their migration path.
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Roots and Shoots, the brainchild of Jane Goodall, was created to give youth the opportunity to meet challenges and resolve issues in their own communities. Youth-led and youth-driven, students tackle issues concerning people, animals, and the environment.
This year, students in grades 4-6 in Poly's After School Program decided to help sustain the endangered Monarch population by planting a Monarch butterfly waystation. They rehabilitated Wendy's Garden (the garden area just outside of Munger building dedicated to longtime Poly supporter Wendy Munger) by planting milkweed and other butterfly-friendly vegetation to help sustain the butterflies on their migration. Milkweed plants are where Monarchs lay their eggs, and caterpillars eat the leaves.
The students also launched a campaign to encourage Poly families to plant milkweed in their own gardens by providing coupons offered by Armstrong Garden Center. On a recent field trip, the nursery staff gave advice to the students about a variety of plants for the waystation, provided a discount on the plants, and enthusiastically agreed to support the students' efforts by offering a coupon for distribution to the Poly community by the Roots and Shoots group. The students encourage all members of the Poly community to stop by the Pasadena location before March 31 to purchase (be sure to bring the coupon for a 15% discount!) and plant milkweed in their own garden to expand the waystation in the Pasadena area, which will help the Monarchs on their migration path.
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