First graders present their class play, "Hurry and the Monarch"

First graders presented their class play, an adaptation of Antoine Flatharta’s “Hurry and the Monarch.” In this story, the beautiful orange Monarch--on her fall migration route from Canada to Mexico--stops to rest in Texas, where she makes friends with an old tortoise called Hurry. She tells him, "Maybe one day you'll break out of that shell, grow wings, and fly away," and then she is off again with millions of other Monarchs. In the spring, she stops again at Hurry's garden just long enough to lay her eggs and head north to Canada. Embedded in this presentation are the fascinating facts about the amazing 2,000-mile migration and the life cycle of butterflies, an important unit of study for first graders at Tenacre.