Walking Field Trip to the Mailbox April 22, 2015 For the past several weeks, both groups have shown an ongoing interest in the mail. As a means of exposing new children to the mail project and continuing the project for other children, we decided to revisit our local mailbox. Some children had visited the mailbox previously and remembered our past visits, while others were visiting for the first time and were very curious about the different parts of the mailbox. My intention with visiting the mailbox was to expose a new group of children to the mailbox and mail in general, while allowing the children that had previously visited to expand their understanding and revisit their experiences from past trips. We discovered that the children that had visited previously had a greater awareness about specific aspects of the mailbox (the eagle, the handle, collection times, etc.) and were able to point these things out to the new group. When we arrived at the mailbox, we asked the ...