It was fitting that we began the year with the Monarchs leaving Deerfield, migrating south, and we end the year with their arrival back in Deerfield .  This past fall the new kindergarteners arrived at DCS and now it's their turn to leave kindergarten on the next step of their journey.  " You seem so frail and delicate, A breeze can waft you near.  You're filled with boundless energy...  I reach, you disappear!  And I am left with memories, exquisite, rare, apart... Until the day that you return, I'll remember nature's art. "

To a Monarch Butterfly ,  by Lola Sneyd