This semester, my mentor educator and I started taking children on regular walks. In addition to documenting those walks regularly, I worked with the children on the Walking Map. I pasted it on the art room wall, and the children and I would take it down after the walk to put down things we observed or discovered along the way. Little by little, the map started to reflect what we were paying attention to: the footprint, the cars, the signs, the numbers on the sign, the train, the letters on the train, the dogs, the horses, the houses, the grass, the trees, the cables etc. When we were not working with the map, the children and I would look at it from time to time, and we would together try to recall all the different small moments that happened during our walk. Luckily we had the map to remind us of all the traces that we’ve collected together.
