PHOTO GALLERY: Lee Elementary celebrates 20th annual Fall Festival

Students and teachers from Lee Expressive Arts Elementary School cross Locust Street during the school's annual Halloween parade Wednesday in downtown Columbia. The parade kicked off their fall festival, which has been a tradition at Lee Elementary for over 20 years.   |  Benjamin Hoste

From left, Mariah Sample, Arly Moreno, Jerry Zhu, Peter Chen, Kamdyn Mildenhall and Abigail Fleming, first-graders at Lee Elementary School, follow Hallie Rainwater's instructions to a dance outside the school.   |  Bridget Murphy

First-graders Arly Moreno, left, and Mariah Sample dance with their classmates outside Lee Elementary on Wednesday. The dancing was just one of many stations for students to visit at Lee Elementary's Fall Festival.   |  Bridget Murphy

Third-grade teacher Nancy Bond, left, and third-grader Steven Smith, back, watch Willie Hose, a third-grader at Lee Elementary School, as he grinds wheat to make flour at Lee's annual Fall Festival. Volunteers read "The Little Red Hen" to the students and then taught them how to make graham crackers.   |  Bridget Murphy

Sophie Froese, left, 10, Tempestt Kemp, 11, and Ben Fleming,10, fifth-graders at Lee Elementary School, touch a shovelnose sturgeon during Lee Elementary's 20th annual Fall Festival. There were different stations for students to visit throughout the school. This station included two representatives from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service teaching students about Missouri's native fish and turtles.   |  Bridget Murphy

Emmarose Adams, left, and Arianna Woody, fifth-graders from Lee Elementary School, look at a false map turtle brought by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Students learned about different native Missouri fish such as the shovelnose sturgeon, blue catfish, shortnose gar and longnose gar.   |  Bridget Murphy