Everyone's heart gets racing while watching a good roller coaster, right?  Whether those feelings come from a place of fear or excitement or anticipation or happiness or shear terror depends on the person!  Today's story, Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee, took the kids through one little girls experience with a roller coaster.  She waited in line....and was a little nervous since it was her first time on a roller coaster.  The ride went up, down, and around and around.  At the end of the story she liked it so much, she decided to ride it again!

Roller coasters didn't make our initial list of things with wheels, so we had to go back and add it!  It's so neat to keep a list of all the things we are learning posted and add to it as the week progresses.  They often take the initiative to remind me to add things to our list!!  The kids also heard the TK kiddos talking about a wagon from their story, so we added that too!  If parents have eyes in the back of their heads.....kids have a million set of ears!!

Since we've been talking about wheels all week, we did some art with our new vocabulary word "tracks".  We took cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes and dipped the wheels in paint to make Track Art.  I can honestly say that this painting experience was much less traumatic for me than some of the others.....most of the paint was actually on the paper!! 

Ms. Angela returned today with some cool new activities and some of our favorites from the fall.  We started by learning some new warm up activities.  Sit ups and jumping jacks!  WOW!  She means business!  We practiced each one individually, then added it to our warm up song!  We raced our friends in a "Can you find?" race, where everyone had to listen and find the colors Ms. Angela called out.  We did some limbo....going over and under a pole and ended with a BIG obstacle course all around the courtyard!  We were all so excited that Ms. Angela was back!  We missed her so much!