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Chesterbrook Academy Preschool celebrated Earth Day Monday morning by releasing 10,000 ladybugs into the environment.<\/p>\n
It’s a 25-year tradition that has since branched to surrounding schools and shows young students the importance of the earth and giving back to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do it every Earth\u00a0D<\/span><\/span>ay, April 22, so it\u2019s great to teach the children the importance of releasing the ladybugs into the environment and how to help the environment,\u201d Tara Clerc, Chesterbrook Academy’s principal,\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ladybugs serve as a natural pesticide by feeding on insects that could otherwise harm the health of gardens, trees and shrubs.\u00a0Leading up to the release, students learned about the insects in their classes.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were talking about how ladybugs are good for our environment because they eat the bad insects that eat our crops and without crops we wouldn\u2019t have vegetables,” said Karen Munroe, a preschool teacher at Chesterbrook. “Lo and behold we let go of these ladybugs.”<\/p>\n Munroe donned a red shirt and black pants for the release and students were encouraged to dress like the insects in celebration. Classes decorated crowns that were equipped with red circles and one student wore a pair of red and black wings.<\/p>\n Along with learning about ladybugs, the classes were taught about the environment and the importance of Earth Day. Munroe and her students spent the previous week discussing why recycling and reusing items is crucial.<\/p>\n \u201cYou got to start them young. A lot of them will go home and what we teach them here, if they\u2019re not doing it we\u2019ll say, \u2018are you doing this at home?\u2019 \u2018Oh, we don\u2019t do that.\u2019 Well then they might start,\u201d Munroe said.<\/p>\n The tradition was well received by the hundreds of preschoolers in attendance.<\/p>\n Four-year-old student Marshall Halydier said that the ladybug release is his favorite day of the school year.<\/p>\n \u201cI love Earth Day!\u201d he said. \u201cYou get to catch some ladybugs.\u201d<\/p>\n The large quantity of bugs was bought through Amazon for about $40.<\/p>\n \u201cI love them, they\u2019re so cute and they tickle,\u201d \u00a0Marshall\u00a0Halydier\u00a0said.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 1″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Ladybug2W.jpg”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 1″ _builder_version=”3.20.1″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n Dressed in her ladybug attire, principal Tara Clerc shows a young student which lady bugs are real and which are printed on her blouse. For the last 25 years Chesterbrook Academy Preschool has released ladybugs on Earth Day for their benefits to the environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 2″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Ladybug5W.jpg”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 2″ _builder_version=”3.20.1″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n Marshall Halydier, 4, experienced his first interaction with ladybugs and described it as \u201cthe best day of my life!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 3″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Ladybug3W.jpg”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 3″ _builder_version=”3.20.1″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n Chesterbrook Academy students hold some of the ladybugs while wearing their decorative ladybug crowns they made in class the morning of the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 4″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.20.1″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px” src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Ladybug4W.jpg”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 4″ _builder_version=”3.20.1″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n Students were encouraged to wear black and red in celebration of the ladybug release. 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