A sense of place

    I love it when our normal routines are comfortably stretched.  Recently we have had a couple of opportunities to have gone further into Seward Park than the border trails we have followed in the past.  Joyfully, we have found a cleaner beach than that towards the entrance of the park.   On this occasion the boys also found  a gaggle of geese and great grassy reeds to use as fishing poles.  These discoveries would not have been made if we did not have friends to show us where they like to go. 

In order to connect the new locations with the paths we usually travel I drew a map of our trip for the children when we got back home,  I started at our door and included the bus we took to get to the park.  I labeled pictures and added details as they suggested.  Then we read it as a story.   The boys enjoyed my crude art and it allowed them to see that even though the route we explored was different it connected to what they knew.