Christine Jones Tanner

Kindergarten Teacher at William W. Estes Elementary

[Christine Jones Tanner @mrstannerkinder]

Happy 100th Day of School!!!

[Christine Jones Tanner @mrstannerkinder]

Thank you so much to Nosara’s Mommy for being our mystery reader and reading such a fun book for us Friday afternoon!!!

[Christine Jones Tanner @mrstannerkinder]

We have been having a wonderful first week back at school filled with friends, fun, and snowmen!!!

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We had so much fun decorating our Gingerbread Houses today! Even our class elf, Chippy, got in on all the fun!!!

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Thank you so much to the Asheville JCC for bringing the program “Hanukkah in a Box” to the kindergarten students at Estes this morning! We loved learning all about your culture and traditions!

[Christine Jones Tanner @mrstannerkinder]

Congratulations to Austin on being our first little leader in the sight word club!!! We are so proud of you!!!

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We have so much holiday spirit in room 1005! Our elf, Chippy has been up to all sorts of funny business at night while we sleep and we’ve been working hard on everything and anything to do with Gingerbread!!!

[Christine Jones Tanner @mrstannerkinder]

My little turkeys had an awesome time with @AshevilleFD this morning! We are so thankful for y’all spending your time with us this morning!!!

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We are having so much fun "On the Farm" with our @WitWisdomELA mod. 2 material! After working on & learning about everything that happens on a farm throughout a year in "The Year at Maple Hill Farm" my students started building farms with legos & playing farm at recess! @jhbusey

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I'm so thankful for my little turkeys!!!

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@WitWisdomELA @jhbusey

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Learning about informational text in #WitandWisdom to compare what real farm animals do on the farm to the farm animals in our story books.

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Thank you so much to Anne’s Aunt Anne for being our Friday Mystery Reader!!! It was so fun to hear all the students guesses of who it might be and then for them to see it was one of our friend’s Aunt!!! It takes a village and we are very thankful you came!

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So exciting having Elvis the calf come visit Estes’ Kindergarten Students today!!!

[Christine Jones Tanner @mrstannerkinder]

We were so excited to have our first mystery reader on Friday!!! A huge thank you to Mina’s Dad, we loved having you join our class!

[Christine Jones Tanner @mrstannerkinder]

So much fun in room 1005 making predictions and observations using pumpkins and also creating some pretty adorable Frankenstein handprint art!

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Check out my adorable and talented little pumpkins!!!!

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We had a very fun Friday using “Spookley the Square Pumpkin” to talk about shapes, which shape pumpkin we would want to be, and how to treat others! Such a great book to use to incorporate so many different important learning targets for our Little Leaders!

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Thank you, again Ranger Daniel for an awesome #MicrosoftEdu #skype #virtualfieldtrip to Point Lobos to learn all about Kelp Forests! We had so much fun!

[Christine Jones Tanner @mrstannerkinder]

Thank you so much to Ranger Daniel from Point Lobos Natural Reserve for telling us all about Kelp Forests and why they are so important during our #MicrosoftEdu #skype #virtualfieldtrip this afternoon!!!