Sharon Aston

Veteran Wife🇺🇸Mom👫🏻Pre K Teacher🧸 & Life Long Learner📚 #risddreambig

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

Our last theme for 2025-2026 Pre K3~ “Animals” 🐮 🐳 🐴
We welcomed RISD’s “Environmental Center” to come for a campus visit.
~We used our “Pre K Commitments” to listen with our listening ears👂🏼 & kind & gentle hands 🙌🏽 to touch a snake! 🐍 #risdprek @DmeElemRisd #risddreambig

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

Grateful to teach Pre K🦋
~It’s a special age where almost every vocabulary word is brand new. 💡
~It’s a ✨Magical✨ age where you are able to sing, dance, play musical instruments, wear silly head gear, all while learning & growing together.
@DmeElemRisd #RISDPrek

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

Grateful to Officer Vargas for visiting our Pre K ducklings 🐥 ~First, he shared how he keeps us safe at school. Then, he answered some good questions from 3 & 4 year olds! 😂 Last, he created a color page with him & his son as the main characters.
@DmeElemRisd #risdprek

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

@JessSmith373 @pce_panthers L❤️VE your creativity❣️we miss you at DME💚

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

“We’ve got Spirit, Yes we do,
We’ve got Spirit how about You?!?”
Who will win the Spirit Stick today?~Happy FriYaY 💚Spirit Day & CeLeBrAtInG Love 💕& Kindness❣️ @DmeElemRisd #risdprek #RISDdreambig @IamBranum

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

Celebrating 100th Day during our Play/Work in PreK ~Painting, Puzzling, & Creating Cool things❣️
@risdprek @risddreambig

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

@TheCBreedlove Give him a ((hug)) from Mrs. Aston & let him know I’m still cheering 📣 for him!

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

I would like to honor @BallastShawna for encouraging me to keep going many moons ago. 🌙
I’m forever Grateful for her leadership, inspiration, & continuing to “check in”through the years. ~Shawna definitely left a fingerprint on my soul. ✨🦋✨🦋✨🦋

[Jon Gordon @JonGordon11]

I’m often asked who made a big impact on your life. It’s, without a doubt, Ken Blanchard. author of the One Minute Manger, Raving Fans and more. Ken is one of the kindest human beings on earth. He loves everyone, looks to serve others, and encourages and teaches audiences and readers with heart, humor, humility, purpose and passion. He changed the way the world leads by teaching leaders to focus on catching people doing things right. By recognizing and reinforcing the things your team is doing right, the more they will do things right.

Ken’s books have sold tens of millions of copies and yet if you met him he would ask you questions and want to learn from you.

He wrote the Foreword to The Energy Bus and is a big reason why it became a hit around the world. He believed in me and had a huge impact on my life.

I remember a voicemail I received at 4am after he read the manuscript for my book The Carpenter. He was crying and shared a story about his father and how the book touched him. It was one of the great moments of my life.

He invited me and my family to his house for Father’s Day when we were visiting San Diego about 19 years ago. This was his day with his family but he made time to include us.

Who does that? Ken Blanchard does!

His example made me want to be a better man, father, leader, writer and I can honestly say without him there’s not this version of me. He put his fingerprint on my soul.

I think it’s important that we publicly honor those who paved the way for us, encouraged us and impacted our life.

In the spirit of this new biography about Ken and the title “Catching People Doing Things Right” I would love it if you shared in the comments either:

How Ken Blanchard impacted you
OR
Who impacted your life and how. Let’s recognize them for what they did right!

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

@Ozzys_at_PHS Congratulations Ashleigh!✨
Do you enjoy reading via technology or “old school” turning the pages? 📚

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

Grateful to have a classroom where learning “the little things” make our littles feel BIG! ~First, we read “The Leaf Man” 🍁 we talked about leaves 🍃then, we went on a leaf hunt & created our own “Leaf Man.” #autumnleaves
#readalouds #prekart @DmeElemRisd

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

Red Ribbon Week in PreK was “wondering” about what our friends would wear for dressing up each day. 🤩 +Plus they made connections when they saw the “big kids�� on campus doing the same thing❣️✨❤️✨🫶🏽
#risddreambig #risdprek #redribbonweek2025 @DmeElemRisd

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

✨Shapes, Shadows, & Sorting were a few of our favorite things this week. ~Curvy Lines were discovered in our letter “s” during Morning Message. 🪱
🌈✨Oh, the places we will Go when we continue to Grow & #dreambig in #RISDPrek @DmeElemRisd 🫶🏽

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

Preach! ✨🦋✨Thinking about this message during “Fall Break”~a season ends & a new one begins. 🌞🍁🌾
#reset #recharge #refuel

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

Grateful for @RISD_CTE & all the “Community Helpers” gifts they gave us last year. ~Puppets, Costumes, Books, Puzzles, Picture Cards, & Puppet Stand.
You helped inspire our Little Learners to #risddreambig
#risdprek @DmeElemRisd

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

@aericaplewa @yaleroadrunners How FuN!🤩 I spy 2 little ducklings 🐥 playing together!

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

@JessSmith373 @pce_panthers Your centers are always the best!! 🍁🎃🍁We miss you!

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

Thank you DME PTA for the Super Hero 🦸🏻‍♀️ Chocolate Bar! 🍫
@DmeElemRisd #SuperHero
#teacherslovechocolate

[Sharon Aston @MrsSAston]

@aericaplewa @yaleroadrunners Love your center! 💖