December 25, 2018

Penguin Park – Kansas City, MO – December 24, 2018

Penguin Park is so called because of the huge fiberglass penguin that is featured prominently in the park. Local Kansas City radio station KCUR has posted an article with a wonderful history of the penguin, elephant, kangaroo, and other animals at the park, as well as the area itself.

I grew up in Kansas City, MO. I still have family there, so we took a trip over the Christmas weekend to visit. While there, we paid a visit to Penguin Park, which is actually part of “Lakewood Greenway,” but… you won’t find anyone in the Kansas City North area who calls it that.

As far back as I can remember, Penguin Park has been decorated for the holiday season, and at certain scheduled times, you can even visit with Santa Claus at the park. We didn’t do any of that, and it was warm enough out that we could get by with hoodies and gloves, but it was still a Christmas treat for the family.

I even had my own adventure – they’ve totally revamped those spinny-go-round things – instead of metal death traps, they’re amazingly awesome plastic things, and I had a go on one. I didn’t even barf! Nor did I wobble much when I got off the thing.

Filed Under: Kansas City, Travel

Central West End Christmas – St. Louis, MO – December 2018

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This blog is a mishmash of things I feel like posting.

I’m a special education teacher in Missouri, working with students with severe to profound challenges and needs. My students don’t study a traditional academic curriculum, and we are focused on functional skills and communication. You won’t find math worksheets or science experiments on this blog, but I’ll post things that I use that work well for my students. If you can use them, that’s great!

I have recently had some life changes that have made traveling and exploring possible, finally. I post about those excursions from time to time, and hope to post more about that in the future as I get to go more places.

I also make digital designs – I started designing digital scrapbooking graphics way back in 2007, selling them off and on, but mostly giving things away. I have some items for sale in my Creative Fabrica shop, but there are also a few freebies here, and also in the Commons at DigitalScrapbook.com. I had an unfortunate hard-drive crash with my cloud storage failing as well (everything was corrupted due to the crash), so all of my older designs and freebies are gone.

I know that many teachers need a side-hustle, but the sites I visit are so full of advertising and pay-walls that I have pretty much stopped using resources that I didn’t make myself. When I make something I think is worth sharing – I’ll share it here, without making you sign up for anything or pay for things you can’t afford.