Octopus' Garden with YOU!

Hello Seafarers!

We have had an adventuresome week here at Cherub! We have been busy with tall tales of the ocean, learning all we can about kelp and seaweed forests, plus fish, whales, keeping our ocean clean and more!

Today we worked on our octopi...check out these beautiful and gorgeous friends in the sea! They are just waiting to go home with our friends! They are so simple to make. Take a toilet paper or paper towel roll, color, paint, collage as you wish...cut slits up vertically in the bottom as far as you would like them. Curl "tentacles" up by using a marker to roll them with. Decorate to your hearts content! Presto! Instant octopi!

Yumm-o this afternoon...homemade chocolate and vanilla pudding pops. Ohhh! Ahhh! We can't wait! Have a great weekend and looking forward to next week when it will be "Pirate" week! More nautical tales from the sea to tell!

Be well,
Miss Sue

One Fish, Two Fish, Three Fish or more!

Hello Sea Friends,

We have had so much fun with learning all about the sea...today we saw all kinds of sea shells and talked about what kinds of animals live in them. We made paper bag fish...stuffed with newspapers and put stickers, colored and collaged them. This morning for our early arrival friends we had foam stamps and paint out to make a sea collage. They loved it!

The weather has been perfect to enjoy our time outside...we really enjoy our sand box and all the pails, shovels, scoops, molds and more. I have children begging to stay outside longer, even when it is lunch time. We have enjoyed time on patio too, when it was too hot to go up into the yard.

Fish sticks, watermelon, blue jello, carrots and crackers was the lunch du jour to coincide with our sea discovery. Lots of fans of these! This afternoon, we will have homemade orange juice popscicles and more watermelon for snack. Life is good!

Smiles to you,
Miss Sue

You can have your aquarium....and eat it too!

Hello Sea Loving Friends,

We have been busy today...first up this morning was playdoh and cookie cutters! What's better in life than this? Squish, smash, pound, excersize those fine motor muscles to develop eye hand coordination and fine motor development to someday use a pencil.

Next up was a continuation of our "Under the Sea" talk. It was amazing to hear that some people like fish so much that they set up a mini-"ocean" in their home or offices called an aquarium. They can be big or little, have a few fish or all different kinds. Today we made our own version of an aquarium by making blue jello, letting it set up a bit and then adding goldfish crackers to sink into it. Wow! Magic! This afternoon we'll begin our paper bag fish project...so cute with so many varieties...just wait until you see the pictures!

Have a swimmingly lovely day,
Miss Sue

Under the Sea Week

Ahoy! We are taking our adventure to a new place on the planet....under the sea. Today we read about deep sea divers, scuba divers and snorklers. We also talked about plant life in the ocean. Lots of coral, seaweed forests and more. Some people even eat something called "sea vegetables"!

We worked on mermaids and mermen, seahorses and will be learning about where different fish live in the ocean; either warm water or cold water. Then when we went outside and were running around on the blue top, everyone pretended that they were fish swimming in the ocean!

Oh the nice weather! At least we are not roasting as we were last week....that means perfect weather for apple juice popcicles, water play and more. Come join us soon!

Smiles and Summer Fun to YOU!
Miss Sue

Whoa! What a great two weeks it's been!

Howdy Cowboys and Cowgirls,

What a great 2 weeks it has been....lots of riding, roping, galloping, eating at the chuckwagon, hitting the hay and more! We have had lots of fun making all sorts of things, eating different kinds of things and best of all learning all about the wild, wild west.

We are making our way into "Under the Sea" week next week...lots of fun activities and projects planned for this fun adventure! We can't wait to make our own aquarium and be able to eat it too!

Have a great weekend and enjoy your family!

Miss Sue

Momma, Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys!

Howdy!

We're learning all about cowboy life! Riding, roping, branding, food, songs and more! We made our own steers and cowboys/cowgirls today and yesterday. This week we are going to pan for gold and make biscuits. Then on Friday, we'll have the Cherub Rodeo to finish up our two weeks! It's been fun!

Enjoy the pictures!

Welcome to the Cherub Saloon!

Hello Friends,

I hear the tinkling of the piano keys as someone bangs out a tune on the out of tune piano. We've got cattle rustlers, dance hall girls, cowboys, cowgirls, cowpokes, tenderfeet and a whole bunch of others here at the Cherub Saloon. We serve our drinks strong, well, the root beer is anyway. The pretzels are the freshest and crunchiest this side of Sierra Nevada. You can come to sing or dance here after a hard week of riding the range. You might be dusty and tired, but when you can sing "Buffalo Gals" or "Home on the Range" or dance to "Skip to My Lou" or the "Hokey Pokey" you know you have had a good time, whether it is Saturday night or not.

We had a great time this week, today was much more comfortable for us outside....it is sharing day and it everyone chomps at the bit to play with sharing toys in the afternoon. We get a wide variety of things and it is always exciting to play with someone else's toys.

Western Week Part II will be next week with all sorts of surprises. We can't wait!

Adios partners,
Miss Sue