This year our third grade classes started a Butterfly Garden at Brecknock. This project aligned with our Performance Task for Module 6 where students are asked to educate the community on what we can do to help Monarch butterflies. Monarch butterflies only lay their eggs on milkweed which is the sole source of food for their caterpillars.  Milkweed is harder and harder to find in nature since humans are building and expanding. Monarchs also migrate all the way to Mexico each year for the winter and need to drink nectar from flowers to give them the energy they need for this long trip. We wanted our Butterfly Garden to have both milkweed and high-nectar producing annuals. We solicited donations from Esbenshades Greenhouse for 18 milkweed plants and 2 flats of high-nectar producing annuals. They donated milkweed,  zinnia and salvia.  We also got donations from the Garden Spot High School Plant Science Class. They had extra annuals from their plant sale that they grew in their greenhouse. We got mulch donated from Durrell Moyer. All students helped to plant the flowers. Mrs. Muhr’s Language Arts class made some informational fact cards to include in the garden as well.  We hope this garden will be home to the butterflies we are releasing as well as many other wild butterflies!