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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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Stress-Free End-of-the-Year Tips ~ Ep. 32

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Holidays

Earth Day Magic in Kindergarten ~ Ep. 30

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Loving Teaching While Using New Curriculum ~ Ep. 29

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The Chick Life Cycle Unit is Pure Kindergarten Magic

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Early Childhood Education

Child-Led Play and Learning with Melysa from PRE-K Spot Talks ~ Ep. 27

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Blends and Digraphs

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

Blends and digraphs are a very challenging concept for young readers and writers. It is not expected that students fully be able to read and write these sounds until second grade, however kindergarteners and first grade students should be exposed to these sounds, in...

One More One Less

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

Number relations is a huge understanding for kindergarteners – they need to know how the numbers fit together. They need to know what number will come next or what number came first, without having to count all the way to that number to figure it out. They...

Reading Strategies PowerPoints

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

Explicitly teaching reading strategies is important when students are learning to read. I love using a PowerPoint to model for the whole class how I use a strategy to help me read and then give my students a chance to practice it as a...

Addition and Subtraction

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

Teaching addition and subtraction is a huge part of kindergarten math and there are a lot of fun ways to teach it! I love to use books, games, and real word problems to teach and practice addition and subtraction. Check out my Addition and...

Fun Valentine’s Day!

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

Valentine’s Day is a busy and exciting day in any classroom, but especially an early childhood classroom! There are so many fun Valentine's Day activities you can do with your students! I am going to show you what I love to do in my...

Kindergarten Book Clubs

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

I love using a book club with some of my students, but it could also be used as a whole class. Book clubs are a great way to practice different comprehension skills, as well as give students a chance to take leadership over their...

Kindergarten Water Unit

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

The kindergarten water unit is a huge topic to cover in science and is touched on in many grades throughout a child’s life. In kindergarten I try and introduce my students to the key understandings of water through fun, hands-on experiments and activities. All...

100th Day of School Activities

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon

The 100th day marks a big milestone in the younger grades! I don’t know about you, but my students count each day of school until we get to 100 (and then until the end of the school year). I love this special day with...

Teaching Martin Luther King For Kids is Not Enough!

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I have felt really nervous to write this blog post about teaching Martin Luther King for kids, because I know that I definitely do not have all the answers here, so I try and include lots of resources and articles from educators I trust...

New Year’s Around the World

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As I was preparing for my Winter Holidays Around the World unit, I came across many unique and interesting traditions for New Year’s! I decided that after my students come back to school, we would continue our “travels” to learn about a few traditions...