Oct. 6,
2010: Monarchs Rule!
 The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers. Click here to learn about subscribing to the eEdition at no cost to you (for Colorado teachers).
Activities:
1. On one side of a card, draw a monarch butterfly. On the other side, write an interesting fact about the monarch. Make a dozen cards.
2. In different sections on a piece of paper, paste newspaper words or pictures of animals that fly, are beautiful, or migrate.
3. With a friend, circle butterflies in newspaper pictures or ads.
4. How are these important to the monarch: (a) Mexico, (b) milkweed, (c) thermals, and (d) oyamel firs?
5. Use the Internet to research the monarch and other butterflies. Do monarchs live or pass through your community? What butterflies live near you? Write about what you have learned.
Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them. This week's standard:
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Students understand factors that influence food choices, for example, culture, religion and personal experience. (Health: Nutrition)
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
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