• Tracks & Tracings

    Walking, Storying, Tracing

    We walk and meet a dead squirrel and a one-footed goose. We add Banana Tree, and traces of stolen bananas. We add their stories and photographs to our map of fabulations. A story of a spider trickles from home or maybe from another classroom. Spider comes to live on the map. We walk, and pumpkin-eaters come back into the classroom with us. We learn that moving with stories requires a particular pace: slower, punctuated by longer pauses to give pencil and hand enough time to move with the character. More layers, papers torn, prints of small running shoes. We walk, tell stories and map them.  If we take seriously Doreen Massey’s…