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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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Using Writing Goals to Empower Young Writers ~ Ep. 24

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Apple Spotify Amazon Music Episode Summary Today on the Kindergarten Cafe podcast, I explore the benefits of implementing writing goals to support...
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How to Best Manage Centers as a Classroom Teacher: Part 2 of a Conversation with a First-Year Teacher – Ep. 16

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Apple Spotify Google Amazon Music Episode Summary This is part 2 of a conversation I had...
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Working Smarter, Not Harder in Kindergarten: a Conversation with a First-Year Teacher – Ep. 15

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Apple Spotify Google Amazon Music Episode Summary Back in November, I had the pleasure of...
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Fun and Easy Kindergarten Vocabulary Activities

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Having a large vocabulary is a large predictor of reading success and a big component of learning to read. It needs to be taught alongside other literacy skills. This blog post will go over several ways to teach kindergarten vocabulary to your students and...
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Supporting Beginning Writers

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Apple Spotify Google Amazon Music Episode Summary Today we are talking about how to support our beginning writers in...
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Easy Center Ideas for Kindergarten Growth

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Centers are a big part of kindergarten learning, and is probably most unique to kindergarten, although certainly older grades may use centers as well. Center ideas in kindergarten focus on what we know is developmentally appropriate for how young children learn – they learn...
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3 Kindergarten Writing Activities to do Before Launching Writer’s Workshop

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Kindergarten writing activities and writer’s workshop can be the most challenging time of day for students. Writing involves so many steps for students, it is hard to get it all into place. Students need to think of an idea of what to write, think...
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 5 Simple Fine Motor Skills Activities

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Fine motor skills activities are critical in every early childhood classroom as they set the foundation for future literacy skills. Children need fine motor skills to be able to write and draw. Additionally, fine motor skills are needed for cutting with scissors, zipping, buttoning,...
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Teaching Kids to Draw in Three Steps

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Teaching kids to draw is a critical literacy skill. Children need to be able to draw detailed drawings that when anyone looks at them, they will know what the drawing is of. Learning to draw is important because it helps children develop fine motor...
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Easy Celebrations for Kindergarten Poetry Month

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April is National Poetry Month, so what better time than to have a kindergarten poetry month! By this time in spring, kindergarteners are ready for new genres in reading and writing and so it’s the perfect time to let them explore with reading and...
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