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An Autumn Symphony
A symphony of colour and sound divides our school playground
from the neighbouring mall. Black and orange monarch butterflies flit
overhead; crickets chirp; and, files of pitch black ants move in intricate
patterns through the soft, emerald green grass that edges the hill. Tall
clumps of plants — white Queen Anne's lace, blue corn flowers, goldenrods,
magenta thistles and spindly, straw-coloured grasses — cover the hillside.
The flowers and dry grasses smell of summer, honey and sweet sugar all
rolled into one.
At the foot of the hill, columnar poplars stand in a half circle, as
if protecting the plants and the animals from the neighbouring mall. The
trees' yellowish-green leaves rustle in the wind. A narrow path winds its
way through the grove, past a deep muddy puddle — the home of litter,
frogs and the occasional family of migratory ducks. At the edge of the
puddle, on a carpet of greyish-brown and withered yellow grass, lies a
fallen log, shaped like a great bear claw; brown crinkly leaves cling to
its chocolate brown branches.
In the pale blue sky, clouds, likewisps of stretched out cotton
balls, form and reform into countless shapes: alligator, sheep, a wolf's
head, a spouting whale, a unicorn.
Autumn Symphony is based on the individual site descriptions written by the
pupils in
grade 5-6
Jeanne Sauve French Immersion School
London, Ontario, Canada
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