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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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Literacy

As the start to the school year is fast approaching, I thought I would share my top 10 favorite back to school read alouds. This post contains amazon affiliate links for your shopping convenience. I earn a small (very small) commission each time someone...
High Frequency Words, Sight Words, Snap Words…. Whatever you call them, kids need to learn them! They are words that can’t be sounded out. Words that appear most frequently in their reading and their writing. Just like with my previous blog post on phonics,...
Are you wondering how to teach phonics in kindergarten? Teaching phonics can be an overwhelming area of instruction for teachers – just one more thing to fit in during the busy day. But I have found ways to easily and successfully embed phonics into...
I hated learning about poetry as a child – it always confused me and I felt unsuccessful at it because I didn’t have a knack for rhyming (I still don’t). It wasn’t until high school that I started to appreciate poetry and realize that poetry doesn’t have...