The document lists observations from a fourth grade student's trip to Mali, noting differences in houses, transportation, shops, climate, animals, food and people compared to their own country. Key differences mentioned include Mali having big trees, sand, colorful clothing, different beds made of wood or bamboo, stores and workshops outside, hot climate with little rain, and people with dark skin.

1. Observations about Mali
Fourth Grade Enrichment
October 2012
Observations from Pictures of Trip
Observations from book: • Fun dances
• Not a lot of rain
• big trees • Lots of pollution
• sand • Paper looks leathery
• night • Paint with mud
• different houses • Really hot so they mostly drive
• lots of people scooters
• bugs • Store and work shops outside
• full moon • They have shops and lots of stuff
• colorful clothing to sell
• different beds • It his very hot
• pot wooden beds, bamboo • They get very little rain
• animals • Their classrooms are different
• African people • Houses are different
• quiet night • Different cars and different
• dad tells stories clothes
• neighbors come by to greet us • Roads are safe, they play on the
• teapot with stripes like a tiger streets
• crows go “kay kay ray kay” • Sell different stuff, they don’t put
• top of trees are smaller than bottom stuff in stores, it’s on open areas
• five lizards • Sand is brownish
• lawn is orange • People with fancy clothes
• have a brick wall surrounding their • Fancy buildings
house so the animals don’t get out • Buses called sotramas
• they make most of their food in a
bowl
• they have dark skin
• there are a lot of chickens
• leaves are different
• hens can be different colors
• ground is red
• chicken coops are different
• use different material Questions:
• they grow lots of fruit
Why are the houses so different from ours?
• they own many animals Why does the teapot have stripes like a tiger?
• the ground is a sandy orange
• lots of colorful birds