A Park Scavenger Hunt

We belong to a homeschool group that gets to gether several times a month for park days and field trips.  This week, the park day was at our favorite park in Garden Ridge.

The boys' favorite thing to do in the park is to build canals in the creek.  They bring milk or water bottle tops to float down their canals.  This is the kind of 'homeschooling' learning that I love.  I hope one day we will live somewhere where our backyard will have areas for the kids to explore God's beauty in nature. 

We are fortnuate to have had a good amount of rain this year to keep some water in the creek, although this is the lowest it's been in a while.  Last summer, it was so dry that we didn't even know that there ever was water in the creek. 

One of the mom's in this homeschool group organized a scavenger hunt for this park day.  The kids worked in small groups to find a list of about thirty items that could be found around the park, including snail shells, bugs, seed pods, certain types of leaves and other things like that. 

Leah wanted to help find the leaves even after we moved on on our list.

Until she discovered the rocks down by the creek that needed to be thrown into the water.

It's getting really hot in Texas now so we tend to do indoor things or just stay home, but this park has a lot of shade and it gets a good breeze blowing though it so I'm sure we'll continue to go there a lot through the summer. 

Besides, we need to get our fill of trees before we move down to Tucson at the end of the year.  We've been looking at houses on the internet down there and it looks pretty brown and treeless for the most part.  We're excited to be going though.