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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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Math

Simple Dice Games for Kindergarten for the Year

Zeba McGibbon

Simple dice games for kindergarten are probably my most loved math stations and activities I give my students. They love the routines,...

Classroom Activities and Lessons

An Awesome Family Unit for Kindergarten

Zeba McGibbon

A family unit for kindergarten is an important social studies unit to start the year for several reasons. A family unit for...

Science

Exciting Activities for the Life Cycle of Pumpkin

Zeba McGibbon

The life cycle of pumpkin is a fun way to continue learning about life cycles while staying in the festive fall spirit....

Classroom Activities and Lessons

A Kindergarten Name Project to Help Value Student Names

Zeba McGibbon

A kindergarten name project is critical to the start of the year in kindergarten. Learning student names is important for both teachers...

Teaching Tips and Tricks

Sub Tub for a Smooth and Easy Absence

Zeba McGibbon

Most teachers will tell you that it is easier to come to work sick than make sub plans… enter the Sub Tub!...

Simple Dice Games for Kindergarten for the Year

MathZeba McGibbon

Simple dice games for kindergarten are probably my most loved math stations and activities I give my students. They love the routines, the game aspect, and they hardly even realize they are doing math the whole time! Dice games are an important part of...

An Awesome Family Unit for Kindergarten

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

A family unit for kindergarten is an important social studies unit to start the year for several reasons. A family unit for kindergarten involves letting the students share about their own families, as well as learning about the similarities and differences between families. Teaching...

Exciting Activities for the Life Cycle of Pumpkin

ScienceZeba McGibbon

The life cycle of pumpkin is a fun way to continue learning about life cycles while staying in the festive fall spirit. Students enjoy exploring and observing the pumpkin, as well as learning about how the pumpkin grows and changes over time.

A Kindergarten Name Project to Help Value Student Names

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

A kindergarten name project is critical to the start of the year in kindergarten. Learning student names is important for both teachers and other students. Names are a very important part of a person’s identity, and it is important that as teachers we value...

Understanding the Life Cycle of an Apple

ScienceZeba McGibbon

Studying the life cycle of an apple is a great way to engage students in learning about life cycles and living things! Students can hold and observe apples clearly, plus it is a fun fall theme! There’s plenty of science learning that can happen...

My Favorite Theme Day – Board Game Day

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

With the end of the year approaching, I can’t help but get excited for my favorite theme day for the whole year – Board Game Day. I love using theme days at the end of the year to keep students engaged and excited each...

End of the Year Writing Prompts

LiteracyZeba McGibbon

With the end of the year approaching, I like to think about what end of the year writing prompts I can provide that help my students reflect on all that they have learned, the classroom community we have built, and all the fun we...

What’s in my Math Toolbox?

MathZeba McGibbon

The same tools can be used to meet a variety of skills for math small groups or interventions. I keep my math toolbox stocked and ready to go behind my small group table for every kind of math group I might need!

4 Tips for Teaching Sentences to Beginning Writers

LiteracyZeba McGibbon

When teaching beginning writers, it is important to teach them how to write a sentence. I have 4 tips for you when teaching sentences to beginning or struggling writers! Hearing comes first when teaching sentences https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Phonemic-Awareness-Interventions-5550853

Teaching Living and Non-Living Things in Kindergarten

ScienceZeba McGibbon

Teaching about living and non-living things is a crucial foundation to all life sciences, life cycles, biology and ecology. Thinking about living things may be easy, but non-living things are more abstract. Students should be able to group living things together to see the...