It’s our good fortune this week to reproduce two lively drawings from the Damascus School.
The butterflies were sketched by Trinity Jachens, a student in Mrs. Lukan’s first grade; the gourd-shaped chipmunk is by Annalyse Holbert, a second grader in Mrs. Redick’ s classroom.
One of Trinity’s butterflies sips nectar from a flower, but another, flying toward the flower, probably represents a real monarch that she helped to name.
“Ariel-Sunflower” hatched at Damascus School on October 27 and was our last reared monarch – her first-name bestowed by 2nd grader Elizabeth Blum, and her last-name by Trinity.
It was too cold in Milanville to safely release Ariel-Sunflower, but a friend, who came to visit during that week, drove her to Maryland on November 1. Set free in a warm field near the Potomac River, with plenty of asters on hand, she had a fitting send-off for a 2000-mile journey to Mexico.
Back in Damascus School it was fun to recall how Ariel-Sunflower uncoiled her long tongue and made unscheduled flights onto window panes and children’s sleeves.
“When she flies she lands on many kinds of flowers,” Sarah Snow explains. “She gets nectar from them. When she gets to Mexico she’ll see all her friends.”
Trinity agrees and recalls how “Sunflower is pretty…I will always pray that she will live.”
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It’s our good fortune this week to reproduce two lively drawings from the Damascus School.
The butterflies were sketched by Trinity Jachens, a student in Mrs. Lukan’s first grade; the gourd-shaped chipmunk is by Annalyse Holbert, a second grader in Mrs. Redick’ s classroom.
One of Trinity’s butterflies sips nectar from a flower, but another, flying toward the flower, probably represents a real monarch that she helped to name.
“Ariel-Sunflower” hatched at Damascus School on October 27 and was our last reared monarch – her first-name bestowed by 2nd grader Elizabeth Blum, and her last-name by Trinity.
It was too cold in Milanville to safely release Ariel-Sunflower, but a friend, who came to visit during that week, drove her to Maryland on November 1. Set free in a warm field near the Potomac River, with plenty of asters on hand, she had a fitting send-off for a 2000-mile journey to Mexico.
Back in Damascus School it was fun to recall how Ariel-Sunflower uncoiled her long tongue and made unscheduled flights onto window panes and children’s sleeves.
“When she flies she lands on many kinds of flowers,” Sarah Snow explains. “She gets nectar from them. When she gets to Mexico she’ll see all her friends.”
Trinity agrees and recalls how “Sunflower is pretty…I will always pray that she will live.”
