Lions, Lizards, and Shapes Oh My!

This walking tour through Calhoun Ward is a visual discovery of animals, shapes, and textures in the architectural details of the built environment. This program presents Savannah’s unique historic district in a fun and engaging tour.

Georgia Standards of Excellence Pre-K

  1. SS1c: Becomes aware of the roles, responsibilities and services provided by community workers.
  2. SS2b: Demonstrates an emerging awareness and respect for culture and ethnicity.
  3. SS3a: Identifies common features in the home and school environment.
  4. SS3c: Uses and responds to words to indicate directionality, position, and size.
  5. SS3d: Develops awareness of the community, city, and state in which he/she lives.
  6. SS3e: Recognizes characteristics of other geographic regions and cultures.
  7. MD1c: Counts objects using one-to-one correspondence.
  8. MD1d: Compared sets of objects using language
  9. MD2e: Spontaneously recognizes and identifies patterns in the environment.
  10. MD1j: Begins to recognize numbers
  11. MD4a: Recognizes, describes and compares basic geometric shapes.
  12. MD4c: Uses language to indicate where things are in space:  positions, directions, distances, order

Georgia Standards of Excellence Kindergarten

SSKG3: Students will state the street address, city, county, state, nation, and continent in which he or she lives.

SSKE1: The student will describe the work that people do (police officer, fire fighter, soldier, mail carrier, baker, farmer, doctor, and teacher).

SSKCG1: Students will demonstrate an understanding of good citizenship.

  • Explain how rules are made and why.
  • Explain why rules should be followed.

MCCK.CC.4: Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.



MCCK.MD.3: Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.


MCCK.G.2: Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.