Champion Park

I've been here a couple of times, and keep forgetting to post about it. So, here's goes.

Champion Park


It doesn't have a traditional playscape, but instead has some manmade rocks to climb over and under.





We've been singing "I'm Going on a Bear Hunt" a bunch recently. Here's Batman acting out the song. He's pretending to be the bear. Everyone else ran from him screaming their silly heads off.








"Going on a bear hunt. Gonna catch a big one. I'm not afraid. Oh NO! What's THAT?"


I love that it has a sand pit that is shaded. They've put in a shaded area. They also have a dinosaur skeleton you could uncover, but my kids are way too busy building their own sand castles.



The part that makes this so super wonderful is the little water area next to it. It's shaped like a whale (or a shark technically, since it has a fin on top).

I love the water area, because after getting thoroughly filthy while playing in the sand they can clean up afterwards.

There's also miles and miles of nature trails, but right now it's just too hot to really enjoy them. One of the trails will take you over to the other splash park right next door.

Edited to add: Go to I Blame My Mother for more kid friendly Friday posts.

One last thing today

Read this link.

Who else here has had someone ask what do you do all day? And then kept from snapping at them with a sarcastic answer.

Curriculum Clean-Out

Does anyone else always feel like they've spelled that wrong?

Here's what in this giveaway:



Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

Why am I giving it away? Well, I figured out that it's not my teaching style, so despite having about 10 different friends rave on this book, it didn't work for me. So, I'm letting someone else try it out.

This giveawy is coming at the perfect time, because I'm busy cleaning out my garage of some of my teaching stuff. So, I'm sure more will be coming.

How to get entries:

1. Comment, tell me one activity you've done with your child
2. Follow, I admit it, I love to see that more people are reading my blog, so follow me and then comment about it.
3. Blog about this, and then comment again with a link to the blog post.

This is open to US shipping, and the winner will be chosen on August 15th by my kid drawing a name out of the bag.

Good luck. If you want to find more great giveaways go to Homeschool Creations and be amazed! I mean seriously, she has two giveaways that I want to win (workbox and the preschool one)

More hints about our big project

Batman and Princess painting.


Princess overseeing the work. She got bored with painting fairly quickly.


Interest in painting was renewed when I brought out the brayer. Superman was easily painting for another 15 minutes after his brother and sister were done. It was really quite amazing.

 

Batman relieved his boredom by watering the plants. A decision I was perfectly happy with.

 

 

 

I even got them to do hand prints. This is going to be super cool when it's all done.

To see previous hints go to this post.

Edited for spelling

Curriculum Cleanout

If you haven't seen Homeschool Creations is hosting a curriculum giveaway blog party, who else is super excited by this?