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Kindergarten Cafe

Welcome to Kindergarten Cafe - your home for teaching ideas, activities, and strategies across all content areas! I am Zeba McGibbon and I love creating resources for teachers and sharing my teaching experience with others. Kindergarten Cafe is aimed for kindergarten, but teachers of Preschool-First grade can find resources here for their students! I love to connect with other teachers so please reach out and say hello!

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Read Across America Week

Zeba McGibbon

In case you haven’t heard, teachers and the National Educators Association are moving away from celebrating Dr. Seuss during Read Across America...

Math

Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Zeba McGibbon

I love the time of year when we can start working on addition and subtraction strategies in math. There are three key...

Literacy

Phoneme Segmentation

Zeba McGibbon

The best way to increase your students’ reading and writing development is to work on phoneme segmentation. There is a clear order...

Literacy

Letter-Sound Correspondence

Zeba McGibbon

One of the most important concepts for kindergarteners to learn for their early literacy development is letter-sound correspondence. Children need to know...

Literacy

Benefits to Reading Strategy Powerpoints

Zeba McGibbon

I love using reading powerpoints to enhance my reading instruction. Reading powerpoints showcase different reading strategies, use powerful shared reading technique, and...

Read Across America Week

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

In case you haven’t heard, teachers and the National Educators Association are moving away from celebrating Dr. Seuss during Read Across America week, because of the growing research on his racist messages within his stories. So instead of celebrating Dr. Seuss, let’s celebrating the...

Addition and Subtraction Strategies

MathZeba McGibbon

I love the time of year when we can start working on addition and subtraction strategies in math. There are three key strategies that I like to teach my students that draw on other important math understandings that we have been working on throughout...

Phoneme Segmentation

LiteracyZeba McGibbon

The best way to increase your students’ reading and writing development is to work on phoneme segmentation. There is a clear order to work on these skills to best support the students in your classroom. For all the skills, you want students to be...

Letter-Sound Correspondence

LiteracyZeba McGibbon

One of the most important concepts for kindergarteners to learn for their early literacy development is letter-sound correspondence. Children need to know that the written letters are connected to sounds we speak and they need to be able to match the two.

Benefits to Reading Strategy Powerpoints

LiteracyZeba McGibbon

I love using reading powerpoints to enhance my reading instruction. Reading powerpoints showcase different reading strategies, use powerful shared reading technique, and encourages transfer of the reading skills. Reading strategies There are so...

5 Favorite Winter Activities

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

Not sure about you, but winter is my favorite time of year. I get so excited with the change of seasons and seeing snow. My students love this time of year too. I try and capture their excitement by channeling it in their play...

Literacy intervention for distance learning

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon

With this new way of teaching, whether you are in-person or on a computer, you may be wondering how to make sure we are supporting students where they are with their literacy development. I am here to help! Zoom Tricks

A Digital Halloween

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon

Halloween is a holiday that many American children look forward to every year, and this year children might be experiencing a range of emotions about the upcoming holiday. They may be worried about what they can’t do (like some towns are not allowing trick...

Kindergarten Fun Fall Activities

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

It’s beginning to look a lot like… fall! I love the changing seasons and in New England where I live, I look forward to the leaves changing color every year! This year… fall kind of snuck up on me! But now that the leaves...

Planning Science

ScienceZeba McGibbon

If you are getting ready for a new school year and/or a new grade level, you may be planning some curriculum over the summer. I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about how I plan for science and offer some suggestions. If you...