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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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What are the best Math read aloud books for kindergarten?

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Math read aloud books for kindergarten are a great way to connect literacy and math. Math books for kindergarten are great connectors to math lessons and can lead to fun and engaging practice. Below are some of my most favorite math read aloud books...
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9 Easy Apples & Fall Math Activities for Kindergarten

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Are you looking for some easy fall math activities for kindergarten? Look no further! I have so many engaging ways to celebrate this new season with your students and help them continue to practice math! In the fall in kindergarten, children are mostly working...
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How to Structure a Kindergarten Math Lesson

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Kindergarten math lessons may appear different than the older grades, but they can follow a similar workshop structure. A kindergarten math lesson still starts with a mini-lesson, then students have time to work independently or with peers, and then there is a closing activity....
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Easy Kindergarten Home Support for Struggling Students

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We always want what is best for our students, and some students just need more practice than what we can provide during the school day. Enter the kindergarten home support bag. Kindergarten home support bags have definitely helped many of my students and their...
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Simple Dice Games for Kindergarten for the Year

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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...
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What’s in my Math Toolbox?

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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!
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3D Shapes for Kindergarten

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Teaching about 3-Dimensional (3D) Shapes for Kindergarten involves hands-on exploring, explicit teaching, and linking 3D shapes to our real world. With these three things, your students will have fun and learn a lot about 3D shapes! You can get all these 3D shape activities...
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Addition and Subtraction Strategies

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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...
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2019-20 Favorite #1: Establishing Math Routines and Expectations

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As we finish up a school year, and prepare for the next one, I wanted to re-share my top 5 favorite blog posts from the 2019-20 school year! Today we have the most popular blog post from 2019-20... drumroll please... Establishing Math Routines and...
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Place Value Kindergarten Activities

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Place value is such a critical understanding for young mathematicians – it is a basic building block for future math problems. Place value can be very challenging for young children because it is so abstract. As teachers we need to find ways to help...
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