September Meeting:
September Potluck, September 2, 6:30pm
Izaak Walton Cabin, Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve
Please join us for the first monthly meeting of the fall: a potluck supper held at the Izaak Walton Cabin at Lake of the Woods in Mahomet. Bring a friend, a dish to share, and up to 10 slides of your trips or special places you visited this past summer. Cold drinks will be provided; please bring your own table service. Map: Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve


Audubon Adventures
Audubon Adventures is an educational kit for use in the classroom. This year, an all-new edition of Audubon Adventures is being released entitled Wildlife on the Move. Wildlife on the Move is a standards-based classroom curriculum supplement that focuses on migrating animals. Content will be rooted in the core elementary science, language arts, and social studies (civics) curricula appropriate for 3rd to 5th grade. Wildlife on the Move contains four study units:
1. Amazing journeys and life cycles of migrating birds of the Americas;
2. Monarch butterfly and dragonfly migration
3. Whales and sea turtles and their migratory seasons;
4. Action for Planet Earth focusing on ways that young people can make valuable contributions to conservation in their community.

Sponsors Needed
Generous donations from our members allow CCAS to sponsor Audubon Adventure kits for local classrooms. If you would like to sponsor a kit for one or more classrooms, please send a check made out to CCAS to PO Box 882, Urbana, IL. 61803. Each kit costs $38.50. Please have checks in by Sept. 13th.

Interested in a Free Kit?
If you are a teacher and are interested in requesting a kit, contact me at sclementz@ccfpd.org by Sept. 10th. The kit is free to you because of our sponsors! For more information on the kit visit http://education.audubon.org/audubon-adventures.


2010 Nominating Committee
Chair, Janet Jokela
Other members: Charlene Anchor, Pam Leiter, Jim Nardi
Please consider volunteering or recommending someone to serve on the CCAS Board.


Seeking CCAS Friends
If you have not already done so, please consider supporting CCAS as a “CCAS Friend.” As a member of the National Audubon Society, you are also automatically a member of the Champaign County Audubon Society; however, NAS has largely phased out their dues sharing program in which CCAS once received a share of the dues that you paid for National membership. When you become a Friend of CCAS, we keep 100% of your CCAS Friend donation. This support will help us to be financially self sufficient, while sharing the same goals as National Audubon. Please click here for more information. We are grateful for your support. Thank you!


Need Birdseed?
Call John Chato, 344-6803. Delivery available. Audubon can now provide birdseed throughout the year. Help the birds and help your Audubon program.


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