Teachers go to class with the butterflies

Beautiful orange and black Monarch butterflies attended class with 21 Manassas City Public Schools teachers on the first day of summer, June 21.
Elementary, ESOL and Head Start teachers are attending a Monarch Teacher Network workshop to learn how to raise butterflies in their classrooms so that students can experience first hand the miracles of transformation and patterns of migration. 
In the workshop being held at George C. Round Elementary School, teachers are learning about science, world cultures, social studies, language arts, visual and performing arts, mathematics, technology and research through activities built around the story of the Monarch Butterfly. 
The MCPS workshop is one of 16 nationwide venues this summer transforming teachers in preparation for the fall migration back to their classrooms, according to a news release. Read the full story in the July 8 edition of the Manassas Observer.