It's that time of year - the great monarch migration! The monarch butterflies are flooding through our area right now as they head south to Mexico on their fall migration routes. I never even knew about this migration until I moved to the Great Plains several years ago. But now we look forward to it and check out various places around town where they hold monarch watches this time of year. This year my oldest is taking a great homeschool science class at our local nature center. Yesterday they went out on the prairie, caught a monarch and tagged it. He is so excited that someone in Mexico will probably find and read that tag and researchers will be able to do more work on tracking the migration patterns. They also made some cool folding paper monarch "airplanes" like these on this site. My youngest also gets excited about the monarchs because he learned all about the migration on this awesome Little Einstein DVD (which is also the reason that he shoots out "It's Beethoven!! whenever he hears Ode to Joy).
I love it hands-on science. I often wish I had learned science more like this as a child. Maybe then I wouldn't have disliked it so much!
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