Sharing the LOVE- Show and Tell Aprons!

Welcome to our Show and Tell Apron Blog Hop!  We decided to get together to celebrate our sweet, talented friend Sandy Welch and share her wonderful  Show and Tell Aprons.  Theses aprons are not only pretty and adorable, but one of the best teaching tools a primary teacher can have. 

I love mine. It makes me happy every time I wear it- and the kids love it, too.  The aprons are fabulous- but the creator... well, she is even more special.  You will never meet a more genuine, kind, caring person. I was blessed to meet Sandy through our blogs when I first began years ago- and I am thankful that she is one of my very best friends today.  

The aprons are fabulous for teaching all sorts of things- spelling sight words, recognizing sight words, rhyming words,sequencing stories,  number facts, patterning... I love my apron.  I can't even explain all of the uses for this apron.  It seems like I'm always thinking of another way to use it.

She also has cards all set  to use with the aprons, so you will be ready to go!

   

Now, I have a child size apron, too!  We use this one A LOT!  The kids are crazy about their new apron.  

We are talking about fairy tales in our class right now.  The children can retell fairy tales in order using these  wonderful cards to go with the apron.  

The clip art is from Whimsy Workshop- who is another one of my favorite people in the world!  

These cards are perfect now since we are working on familiar stories and fairy tales. After we read and retold Three Billy Goats Gruff, this little sweetie wanted to retell it during free choice time.  I think she's pretty happy wearing that apron!

Sandy made this video with some of her great ideas for using the apron.  The apron is a magical part of our day.  We spend money on so many center activities and manipulatives and programs- and this is something worth every single penny,  because you can use it every day in so many ways- and it helps your children learn.  I'm a visual learner, and I know if my teacher had worn one of these aprons when I was in school, I'd have been able to see and understand things so much more easily (Yes - even if my high school and college teachers wore one. I need to see things to get them!)

These aprons wash beautifully, too.  I don't have to wash mine much, but I have a few times, and it looks good as new. After you wash the  apron, just lay it flat to dry.  Sandy takes such care with each apron, and each is beautifully and carefully made.  She packages them with such love and care, I can't wait until you see how pretty they come to you!

Sandy is the perfect kindergarten teacher and friend. She's come up with such a genius idea, that her friends just had to share it with all of you so you can join in on the fun and have a ball teaching with your apron!

Here is how I'm using the apron this week. This time of year we are  working on learning our math facts to 5, so I just layer in the math facts in the pockets and we practice any chance we get!

The possibilities are ENDLESS!  Thank you, Sandy, for such a wonderful product and such a genius idea for teaching!   You can check out Sandy's store at TpT HERE or her website HERE! Check out Sandy's other friends and fans and visit the other posts on this blog hop!

Thank you for stopping by.  

Five For Friday March 6

I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday. Thank you for hosting, Kacey! 

I just received the most wonderful thing in the mail!  My sweet friend Sandy makes these precious Show and Tell Aprons.  Now, I have a child size one, too!  

They are fabulous for teaching all sorts of things- spelling sight words, recognizing sight words, number facts, sequencing... I love my apron.   The kids are crazy about their new apron.  We are just starting our Fairy Tale unit- so it's perfect.  The children can retell fairy tales in order using the wonderful cards to go with the apron. 

 The clip art is from Whimsy Workshop- who is another one of my favorite people in the world!  We will be using this apron A LOT!  After we read and retold Three Billy Goats Gruff, this little sweetie wanted to retell it during free choice time.  I think she's pretty happy wearing that apron!  (You can see some of my Dr. Seuss friends in the background, too...)

We planted our beans for Jack and the Beanstalk.  I got a little carried away watering them- AKA mud. I hope they are going to be fine.  Last  year, one of my little guys brought in a bean that grew from his beanstalk.  I always make some extra in case one or two of the beans aren't "magic." 

I love teaching the children  about writing details.  This week, I put out 5 different beanie baby cats that I had. The children each had to choose one cat to write about but NOT tell anyone which cat they chose.  Then, they had to write a description of the cat they picked so others could tell which cat it was, just by the description.

The cat has a pink nose and a pink scarf with white fur and blue eyes and pink whiskers and four white paws and pink nails and I love it.

After the children wrote, I showed their writing on the Elmo up on the Smartboard.  We read it together, noticed the beautiful spaces, neat writing on the line, punctuation...  Then, I called up another student to choose which cat was written about in the description. 

To check if we were right, the children also drew an illustration on the top of the paper.  

This is always a favorite activity.  We do this quite a few times.  I use monster pictures, different balls that I have and ducks.  I posted about Ducks and Details here.

This week was all about Dr. Seuss!  The children love hearing his stories.  We did lots of fun activities!  I posted some of my favorites here if you'd like to see them! 

One of my little sweeties went on a trip last week to visit her dad who is stationed in Colorado. Along with her books to read, I sent this journal for her to write in to tell about her trip.  I loved her story!

It was awesome.  I liked the part when we took off.  I miss you.

Saturday I went to the movie theater and watched Sponge Bob.  It was good.

Sunday I played outside with my friend.  We 'rided' on our bike and played on the playground.

Today it is cold outside so I am going to stay inside today.

I helped my dad shovel the whole driveway today.

Yesterday I went to the aquarium and saw sharks.  Guess what? The music went 'don don don.'

I saw the Statue of Liberty.  (when she was flying home... not the one in Colorado.  :)  

Finally, here was my sweet moment of the week. I had some of the children use our  housekeeping table for writing in the morning.  Then, we cleaned up to go to specials.  After the children left, and I went back into the room, I noticed that one of my little girls went back and set the table, color coordinated on the place mats... including a fruit bowl!  I want to take her home with me!

Have a happy, healthy weekend. Thank you for stopping by!