Butterfly Doula
Photographer John Cebula (2021)

Butterfly Doula

The Butterfly Bus ? Digital Digest

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR


May 1st 2024

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Greetings Friends & Allies,

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Certified Naturalist ? is committed to human development and peer resources. Volume two of this digital publication is intended to guide readers towards sustainability practices. Food and herb gardens may be butterfly-scaped as a Monarch way station. Environmental management, and contributions are advanced, directed and promoted through community partnerships.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)
P.C. John Cebula (2021)

After this I saw . . . a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues.—Rev. 7:9

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

MID SUMMER DIY

Join each Summer as we explore green design pathways towards micro-farming and conservation.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

June: Environmental Education - Classrooms without Walls

July: Ethical Ecotourism - Individual Responsibility

September/August: Integrity Keeping - Core Competency; Conservation Ethics - Our Climate Journey

FALL BACK TO BASICS

Harvesting of cool-weather micro-crops is always scheduled for Autumn.

P.C. Robert Darnell’s (2024)

October: Practical Life - Homesteading

November: Grace & Courtesy

P.C. Kathy Strong (2024)

Character Development Series

Do good to your own family.

Do good to your neighbors & those dwelling with you.

Do good to strangers.

Do good to those you seek to serve.

P.C. Samantha Johnson

December: Cultural Humility - Practical Life

P.C. Tara Unger (April 2024)
P.C. Tara Unger (April 2024)
P.C. Robert Darnell (2024)


EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT (ESSA)

TITLE I—IMPROVING BASIC PROGRAMS OPERATED BY STATE AND LOCAL

EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES

PART C—EDUCATION OF MIGRATORY CHILDREN

P.C. Robert Darnell (2024)

PART D—PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH

WHO ARE NEGLECTED, DELINQUENT, OR AT-RISK

PART E—FLEXIBILITY FOR EQUITABLE PER-PUPIL FUNDING

TITLE II: PREPARING, TRAINING, AND RECRUITING HIGH-QUALITY TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS, OR OTHER SCHOOL LEADERS
P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Sec. 2002. Preparing, training, and recruiting high-quality teachers, principals, or other school leaders.

P.C. Robert Darnell (2024)

TITLE III—LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS AND IMMIGRANT STUDENTS

TITLE VI—INDIAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN, AND ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATION

Do you wonder how access to our natural world may mitigate the adverse impact of disadvantage? The White House Office of Public Engagement claims, over 5 million new businesses have sprouted across America - since the onset of a global pandemic. Elder care is noted by the current administration to be a critical need.

According to the Deputy Director of the North Florida SBA our holding company is “Driving competition in the market.” A phenomenon representing a paradoxical shift in consumer culture and accountability. An emerging naturalist market is the foundation upon which our research rests.

Volume I: APA Citation(s):

Nichols, Alicia A. “Butterfly Bus” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, May 15, 2023. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/butterfly-bus-alicia-alexandra-nichols.

Nichols, Alicia A. “Chrysalis Practice” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, June 15, 2023. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/chrysalis-practice-alicia-alexandra-nichols.

Nichols, Alicia A. “Nature on Film” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, August 22, 2023. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/cncg-alicia-alexandra-nichols.

Nichols, Alicia A. “Diary of a CEO” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, August 24, 2023. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/diary-ceo-alicia-alexandra-nichols

Nichols, Alicia A. “Renaissance Man” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, September 17, 2023. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/renaissance-man-alicia-alexandra-nichols.

Nichols, Alicia A. “Golden Naturalism” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, October 1, 2023. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/golden-naturalism-alicia-alexandra-nichols.

Nichols, Alicia A. “Latinos Lead” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, November 1, 2023. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/latinos-lead-alicia-alexandra-nichols.

Nichols, Alicia A. “Gifts in Men” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, December 1, 2023. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/gifts-men-alicia-alexandra-nichols.

Nichols, Alicia A. “Citizen Science” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, January 1, 2024. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/citizen-science-documentary-film-alicia-alexandra-nichols.

Nichols, Alicia A. “Eastern Monarch” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, February 1, 2024. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/mission-mexico-alicia-alexandra-nichols.

Nichols, Alicia A. “Power to the Peaceful” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, March 1, 2024. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/power-peaceful-alicia-alexandra-nichols.

Nichols, Alicia A. “A Woman’s Work.” The Butterfly Bus Digital Digest, April 1, 2024. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/womans-work-alicia-alexandra-nichols


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2024 Red Week

May 1st - 7th Missing & Murdered Women, Girls & Two-Spirit +

117th Congress: H.R.2119 - Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act

Why wear RED?


Stand with domestic dependent nations seeking culturally-specific diversion funding to address underlying causes of domestic violence and sexual assault. Millions in funding must be awarded to indigenous-owned organizations that support registered and unregistered persons of 1st Nation descent, aboriginal or “Native American” ancestry.


MAY DAY Tribal Traditions & Artisan Celebration

The Chickasaw Nation is made of farmers, fishers, and hunter-gatherers who seasonally eco-toured throughout the Mississippi valley region. The food that our tribe eats includes crops of beans, corn, and squash known as “The three sisters” throughout the American lexicon. Due to ramifications of genocide and gentrification, our postcolonial diet includes pork, peaches, apricots, blackberries, wild cherries, melons, watermelon, apples, grapes, and wheat.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Our ancient society did not utilize traditional agriculture instead served as land managers. Historically, the men tracked & killed deer and rabbits. Chickasaw men also sustainably hunted buffalo, bears, wild turkeys, and fish obtained by lengthy eco traveling along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Our techniques for hunting included cultivating wild crops to attach game. Our diet is fortified by forage harvesting hickory nuts, seeds, fruits, roots and medicinal herbs.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Tribal Fest

Celebrating the Culturally Diverse Nature of Food & Beverages

POWERED & PRODUCED BY: trendingbeverages.com

DISTRIBUTED BY: napavalleydistribution.com

Native Cellars ? Tribal Beverages

HOSPITALITY & CULINARY ARTS

*Proteins to Prepare for White Wine Pairing:

Bass Fish: White Bass, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Spotted Bass

Shad Fish: American Gizzard Shad and Threadfin Shad

Panfish

Yellow Bullhead Fish

Sunfish: Green Sunfish, Longear Sunfish Shiner Fish: Blacktail Shiner, Bigeye Shiner, Sand Shiner

Freshwater Drum Fish

Silverside Fish: Inland Silverside

CHICKASAW NATION FARMSHARE FOODS

Mosquitofish

Walleye Fish

Killfish: Plains Killifish

Crappie: White Crappie

Catfish: Blue Catfish, Flathead Catfish, Channel Catfish

Hare: Black-tailed Jack Rabbit

Birds: Bobwhite Quail, Goose, WIld Turkey

*Proteins to Prepare for Red Wine Pairing:

Whitetail Deer Bison

Pork

Corn: Wild Maize, Pod Corn, Merlin's Indian Corn or Sweet Corn, Tom Thumb Corn, Corn Smut

Potatoes: Red/Dinner

Beans: Red, Black-eyed, Cherokee Trail of Tears, Hidatsa Shield, and True Red Cranberry, Trailing bean, Thicket bean, Bush beans, Pole beans

Tomatoes

Onions: Wild or "Spring"

Pumpkin

Zucchini

North American Squash: Pattypan

North, Central & South American Squash: (Summer yield) Yellow or Crookneck

South American Squash: (Winter yield) Hubbard, Buttercup and Acorn Squash African Gourd: Bottle gourd, Calabash, or Birdhouse gourd, Luffa

Pepper: (wild) Chiltepin Blackberries

Southern Dewberries Plums: Purple; Yellow Grapes: Possum Persimmon

Honey: Raw Sunflower: Oil & Seeds

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

*Course Instruction Available.

Product price points are subject to change - ranging from $20-45 per bottle.

Invitation courtesy of Vinter Jason Elkin, Sommelier

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Field Notes from a Naturalist

A memorandum by John Cebula on April 9th 2024

“The one walking with the wise will become wise.” —Prov. 13:20

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

“Those who have studied Tropical Milkweed urge its eradication. I'm disturbed to discover that Tropical Milkweed, a nonnative invasive species, is common almost everywhere I go in Collier County. Compared to other milkweeds, it is easily propagated; unlike native milkweeds, it does not go dormant. Unfortunately, people plant it, thinking they are helping Monarchs, but Tropical Milkweed harms the butterflies.

Tropical Milkweed Warning

The Xerces Society is an excellent source for more information. Tropical Milkweed introduced a parasitic protozoan that infects Monarchs. It causes lower migration success, lower rates of reproduction and mating success, reduction in body mass, and a shorter lifespan.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Tropical Milkweed produces higher levels of cardenolide, the toxic chemical that makes Monarchs distasteful to many predators. As temperatures rise, so do cardenolide levels.

Although Monarchs will lay eggs on Tropical Milkweed, the cardenolide levels kill the caterpillar.

Zebra Long-wing P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Sweetpea: Hey there! May I use your observations for my newsletter please? I have 3,333+ monthly subscribers on LinkedIn who could benefit from your work.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Professor Cebula: Alicia Alexandra Nichols Go right ahead . . . I took all these photos at various locations in Collier County. I find it ironic that many of the county's parks have "Butterfly gardens," and many of these parks distribute leaflets - with suggestions for butterfly gardening. All the leaflets urge us NOT to plant Tropical/Scarlet Milkweed, yet this is the species I usually see in the gardens, as well as invading natural areas.

Butterfly Milkweed ID

Sweetpea: It’s scary Professor Cebula! I would love to quote you in my popular monthly digest! I have been sharing how the Horticultural industry is unregulated!

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Professor Cebula: I'm a retired faculty of the College of DuPage, Illinois. If you search for me on YouTube, you'll find several videos of the presentations I've given (and a lot of my wife, who's a professional musician). Just this past week I gave a popular presentation, "Apocalypse Now: The Decline of Insects" twice! For faculty and staff, at the College of DuPage, AND an encore for an organic gardening club at a public library.

Monarch on Milkweed, P.C. John Cebula (2021)

In February I twice gave a Floridian version of the presentation at the Baker Senior Center in Naples. I'm sharing this because while I'm the new kid on the block in Florida, I've been doing nature education steadily since 2007!

Sweetpea: Amazing! I’m now subscribed to you on YouTube!

NOTE: I can relate the covid era ushered in the second greatest migration period in publicly recorded US history (after the Great Migration) whereupon my family left Alabama for the San Francisco Bay Area.

Butterfly Milkweed - Observation, P.C. Carol Kirby (2024)

Consumer education include how to identify and remove tropical milkweed observations. A potentially hazardous milkweeds are allowed to blooms (year round) in planter boxes for prominent display.

Hazardous Tropical Milkweed - Identification, P.C. John Cebula (2021)
P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Butterfly Doulas

Special recognition to contributing community leaders:

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Courtesy Glass

Lisa Rowley

Carl Segelkee

Tara Unger of Daytona Beach shares, “Why, yes, I do like to grow (milk) weed.”

P.C. Tara Unger (April 2024)

CHRYSALIS PRACTICE ?

P.C. Tara Unger (April 2024)

Service goals are applied for rehabilitating rural communities, law enforcement/military families and veteran households in a comprehensive and facilitated manner.

P.C. Tara Unger (April 2024)

High-fidelity Montessori learning environments are designed to offer solutions to current alternatives in intervention/prevention treatment.

An emphasis on trauma informed care and human nutrition science offers progressive pathways to recovery; may reduce mental illness, sickness and the spread of disease

COLLABORATIVE APPROACH — Seed to Table Farming

Certified Naturalist ? is a value-based developing American sustainable business founded in response to planet Earth’s rapid global climate change.

Our focus is to promote Golden Naturalism as a catalyst for reformation. For example, scientific exploration of the life and water cycle promise to highlight the intelligent design of all creation from the Fibonacci sequence to the logarithmic spiral.

Foodnomics and human development initiatives addressing the critical needs of practical life encourage municipalities to commit to deprivation of an unbiased education for historically underserved language and cultural groups.

Allotment garden plots may work to conserve (keystone species) flora and fauna that have developed from the prehistoric to the contemporary.

NATIVES ONLY

Permaculture Planting Guide

P.C. Robert Darnell’s (2024)

PRACTICAL LIFE EXERCISES

Certified Naturalist recommends building a mobile garden that may erect into a micro farm. Planters may be constructed to germinate seeds and manage plants throughout their full lifecycle.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Add a food, herb and butterfly garden to your emergency-safety plan with storage area for canned and dried reserves! Food storage may allow your household to require minimal human interaction during biological wartime.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

An outdoor classroom design promotes cultivation of fungi. This practice works to sustain soil breakdown so cultivated crops may readily access available nutrients in abundance. Are you interested in growing your own self-sustaining butterfly milkweed patch, wild cherry tree or dewberry bushes?

Wildlife Habitat Courtesy of Carl Burrows

Certified Monarch Waystation By Master Gardener Carl Burrows

Design a biodiverse (native, nectar AND pollen rich) mock wildflower meadow as your lawn.

Courtesy of Carl Burrows

Upcycled Design & Construction

Courtesy of Carl Burrows

Master gardeners share observations, resolve subscriber FAQs; streams solutions, tips and industry trade secrets. Subscribe, like & hit the bell for YouTube notifications - FREE mini masterclasses by Growing Outside the Box.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)
P.C. John Cebula (2021)

What sets our learning environments apart is the use of reclaimed materials for do-it-yourself repurposing. In addition, STEAM enrichment allows any learning community we support to prepare and develop an outdoor classroom from the ground up.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)
P.C. John Cebula (2021)

GROW-HOUSE

Our design principles allow native food and herb gardens to grow robust and reach maturity quicker while conserving space and water. As appropriate soil conditions and clean water resources have shortened - invest in a permaculture butterfly-scaping.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Global social entrepreneurs for sustainable harvesting testify to crops grown organically using a mix of alfalfa pellets, compost and potting soil over wooden yard waste.

Your victory garden awaits!

Reused Material(s): Wood, Glass, Metals, Plastic, Styrofoam/Cardboard, Brick/Stone, Tile

● Tiered Vertical Ladder

● Wall-Hanging Vertical Planter

● Stackable Vertical Planter

● 4-Post Raised Garden Bed with Canopy

● Rooftop Greenhouse Nursery

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

SOUTHERN VICTORY GARDEN

CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Sustainability Commitment

To provide family resource training and education, authentic outdoor experiences, and trauma-informed care to underserved communities that will support positive human development. Whereas disadvantaged households may participate and engage with a collective of interdisciplinary professionals, and access our natural world in a conserved state by way of endemic species sanctuary preserves.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Subtropical Biodiversity Hotspot: South Georgia/ North Florida

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

● Beans: Bush Blue Lake, Contender, Roma II, Provider, Cherokee Wax; (Pole) McCaskan, Kentucky Wonder, Blue Lake; (Lima) Fordhook 242, Henderson, Jackson Wonder, Dixie Butterpea, Early Thorogreen

● Beets: Cylindra, Tall Top, Detroit Dark Red, Early Wonder, Red Ace, Yellow Detroit.

● Broccoli: Calabrese, De Cicco, Early Dividend, Early Green, Packman, Waltham

● Brussel Sprouts: Jade Cross, Long Island Improved

● Cabbage: Copenhagen Market, Flat Dutch, Red Acre, Rio Verde, Round Dutch,

Savoy, Wakefield

● Carrots: Chantenay, Danvers, Imperator, Nantes

● Cauliflower: Brocoverde, Snowball Strains, Snow Crown

● Collards: Georgia Southern, Top Bunch, Vates

● Corn: Early Sunglow, How Sweet It Is, Silver Queen, Sweet Ice, Sweet Riser

● Cucumber: Ashley, Boston Pickling, Eureka, Market More 76, Poinsett, Space

Master, Straight Eight

● Eggplant: Black Beauty, Casper, Cloud Nine, Dusky, Ichiban, Long

● Kale: Redbot, Tuscan, Vates Dwarf Blue Curled, Winterbor

● Kohlrabi: Early White Viennat, Early Purple Vienna, Grand Duke, Kolibri

● Lettuce: Bibb, Buttercrunch, Ermosa, Great Lakes, New Red Fire, Oak Leaf,

Outredgeous, Parris Island Cos, Red Sail, Royal Oak, Salad Bowl, Simpson, Tom

Thumb

● Mustard: Florida Broadleaf, Giant Red, Green Wave, Mizuna, Southern Giant

curled, Tendergreen

● Okra: Annie Oakley II Cajun Delight, Clemson spineless, Emerald

● Onion: American Flag, Evergreen Bunching, Granex, Shallots, White Lisbon

Bunching

● Peas: California Blackeye No.5, Green Arrow, Oregon Sugarpod II, Pinkeye

Purple Hull, Sugar Snap, Texas Cream, Wando

● Peppers: Anaheim Chile, Ancho, Big Bertha, Big Chile II, California Wonder,

Caribbean Red Habanero, Cherry Bomb, Cubanelle, Early Jalapeno, Giant Marconi, Habanero, Hungarian Hot Wax, Jalapeno M, Long Cayenne, Mariachi, Numex, Red Knight, Sweet Banana

● Potato: Gold Rush, Red Pontiac, Yukon Gold

● Radish: Cherry Belle, Champion Daikon, Sparkler, White Icicle

● Spinach: Bloomsdale Longstanding, Malabar Spinach, Melody 3, Space, Tyee

● Squash: (Summer) Chayote, Early Prolific, Early White scallop, Straightneck,

Summer Crookneck (Winter) Early Butternut, Spaghetti, Seminole Squash, Table Ace, Table King, Waltham (Zucchini) Black Beauty, Calabazza, Cocozelle, Spineless Beauty

● Sweet Potato: Beaugard, Boniato, Centennial, Vardaman

● Swiss Chard: Bright Lights, Bright Yellow, Fordhook Giant, Lucullus, Red Ruby

● Tomato (Determinate) Celebrity, Flora gold, Tasti -Lee (Indeterminate) Better Boy, Bonnie’s Best, Everglades, Husky Cherry, Solid Gold, Striped Cavern, Sweet 100, Sweet Chelsea

● Turnip: Purple Top White Globe, Seven Top, Shogoin

Monarch

CERTIFIED NATURALIST ? ACTIVITY GUIDE

Activities are used to administer climate education relevant to species otherwise at risk, threatened, or in-danger of extinction.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Educators know that autonomous academic achievement safeguards self esteem leading to a sense of identity and agency. A healthy self concept is commonly considered advantageous for sustainable personal and professional development. Zheng (2018), helps us to appreciate the implication that untreated adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) leads to conflicts in self esteem.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

It may be concluded that later risk taking behavior clusters are born from a lack of autonomy, agency and identity in the first stages of cognitive and physical development (Teicher & Samson, 2016, p. 241-266). Future of the company may include government contracting with sustainable small businesses.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

To capitalize on opportunities that are geographically close as we start and grow our business, Certified Naturalist ? shall specifically target communities in the United States of America with vested interest in ecotourism and cultural preservation; agribusiness, green-fuel; Ecopsychology and circular economics in hospitality.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

To take advantage of the company’s close proximity to Southeastern biodiversity hotspots we promise to promote outdoor recreation (one of the largest tourism attractions in the region).

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Didactic materials used for human development: practical life exercises, care for the person and the environment are boldly emphasized.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)
Our signature Crochet Mat activity offers landfill waste diversion plus skill-building, practice and review. Physical and cognitive development unite for intervention/prevention treatment. Sustainability sourced products may be for personal use, in outdoor academic & recreational settings, via nature pedagogy (classrooms without walls) and Ecopsychology or “Healing trauma” outdoors.
P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Paradise Restored

“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. —Confucius

(Required) Materials: Modified/Adaptive

Gloves, long sleeve/pant with tall socks and mask

Gardening tools, yard waste container, compost bucket, wheelbarrow Age: 13 and up

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Use circle time to come together shoulder to shoulder. Review key concepts and venn diagram species by land management category: keystone, endemic, native, non native, invasive, and noxious.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Highlight native plants of cultural significance for the Seminole, Alabama, Creek, Choctaw and other muskegon language groups of native peoples. Encourage the group to engage their imagination to envision the landscape before European settlement introduced encroaching species to the stressed habitat.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Survey your outdoor spaces to identify areas for restoration. Invite different language and cultural groups onto your school site to beautify each area. Flag plant species to be pulled up for sorting. Tag native, keystone and/or endemic species (in whole or part) may be carefully harvested for greenhouse nursery growth and later propagation. Moderate a consensus conversation, to discuss an impact strategy, for managing an outdoor environment. Prioritize learning areas for restoration by order of urgency.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Master gardeners may lead small groups to document noxious and endemic plants in their preferred spot. Leaders may demonstrate how to clear non-natives from the ground for disposal, compost or commercial harvesting. Encourage participants to put yard waste in large piles of like kind for sorting. Help individuals to identify plant parts difficult to remove or eradicate.

Circle up for an all group hands-on discussion on waste management. Use circle time to sort over the piles of loose parts to recycle or reclaim and repurpose for upcycling reuse.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Tree of Knowledge

Adapted from "Build a Tree" courtesy of Joseph Cornell's Sharing Nature With Children II (pgs 52-66).

Theme: Plant Parts

Learning Objectives: Memory & Recall - Skill-building, practice & review Multiple Intelligences: Kinesthetic, Visual, Interpersonal

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Classroom Setting: Hardwood forest clearing or trailhead

Age: Reading

Framework: Circle Time

Peer leaders may encourage participants to draw on past knowledge to appreciate the functions of various tree parts. If the cohort is large enough to divide into competing groups adapted lessons to incorporate charades. Peer leaders may introduce each part of the tree by having participants guess and check each tree part and its corresponding function in a small group.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Offer visual aids representing parts of a tree - these may be the prepared picture cards or loose parts. Emphasize key elements such as the roots, leaves, seed/nuts and bark. Prep activity by printing, cutting out and laminating picture cards for small group training sessions. Separate text and matching picture per card for each plant function/action and part.

I notice redwoods don't use a tap root?

I wonder what types of trees use a taproot?

Questioning: which plant part has been around so long it's clogged up with resin and pitch?

The whole "tree" has been visually constructed once group volunteers have each performed relevant actions. Be observant! Group members who have yet to contribute may be encouraged to pretend to be a wasp, bear or squirrel marking the bark. Kinesthetic leaders may volunteer to perform each action, as specified on picture cards or in a field guide, while peer leaders notate a dry erase board with key concepts and vocabulary. For example, a photo of a taproot may be matched to text reading: I hold the tree in place and can pull water from thirty feet underground. Sample heartwood script: “I am the inner core of the tree. I hold the trunk and branches upright and allow the leaves to get to the sunlight.” In addition, making a big slurping sound can be an example of a taproot action!

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

Kingdom Come

Theme: Teambuilding

Psychomotor Development: Physical & Cognitive Skill-Building

Interpersonal Exercise: Mutual Respect & Empathy

Multiple Intelligences: Kinesthetic, Visual, Interpersonal :

Classroom Setting: Forest habitat with tree populations offering shaded terrain. The Player's objective is to protect their kingdom’s castle while conspiring to coop their opponents.

Age: 8 and up

First team to jail the opposing Queen, retrieve the crest and return to their country territory (without being tagged) wins.

Game of tag with medieval rules as defined:

● The terrain inside of a kingdom yet outside of the King’s castle boundary is called “Country”

● To tag any member of the opposite team while that player is in-bounds sends them to jail

● The King has to be tagged by two people to be jailed.

● Queen may cross out of the castle boundary line to tag an opposing team

member but must remain in bounds.

● Players must cross into the other team’s territory to “Jailbreak” and return in

bounds without being tagged.

● All other players, except the King & Knights, when broken out of jail must

return immediately to their field terrain before conspiring to storm the castle.

● Any player who escapes from jail without being tagged becomes a Knight

upon returning to their country.

● Only the King and knights may move directly from a jailbreak to storm the

castle without returning to their country prior.

● If the King is tagged by three or more Knights during a castle storm he is out

of the game.

P.C. John Cebula (2021)

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Carl Burrows

* Actor/Producer/Occasional Stuntman SAG-AFTRA*AEA * Property/Location Manager @ Carl "Doc" Burrows imdb.me/carlburrows Youtube: carl doc burrows

7 个月

So much I would like to add Alicia, but this year is off to a much different start. I have some Milkweed plugs coming up, all of my plots around NJ & NY look good, but now with two surgeries this month, I will have to let go for a while and let nature do what it will do. Hope to get back to it all sometime in June.

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