‘Fly away to Mexico!’

Aurora students give royal sendoff to monarch butterflies

  • Rylei Beck inspects the butterfly she caught and tagged while participating in her 3rd grade class’s monarch tagging exercise at Lincoln Creek Prairie and Trail.
    Rylei Beck inspects the butterfly she caught and tagged while participating in her 3rd grade class’s monarch tagging exercise at Lincoln Creek Prairie and Trail.
  • Jane Troester releases her tagged butterfly to continue its migration to Mexico for the winter.
    Jane Troester releases her tagged butterfly to continue its migration to Mexico for the winter.

    It was an exciting time for the 3rd grade classes at Aurora Elementary School during the late afternoons of Sept. 18-19. Always eager to leave school early for a unique learning experience, the students seized on the opportunity to go to Lincoln Creek Prairie and Trail and take what they learned from their science class and go out to capture monarch butterflies.The monarch tagging was led by Deb M…