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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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Apple Spotify Amazon Music Episode Summary In this episode of Kindergarten Cafe, I discuss the significance of Earth Day. I share how...
Apple Spotify Amazon Music Episode Summary Join us in this episode of the Kindergarten Cafe podcast, where we dive into the enchanting...
Apple Spotify Amazon Music Episode Summary In this episode, I share ways to teach students about water through engaging activities. From the...
Apple Spotify Google Amazon Music Episode Summary In this episode of Kindergarten Cafe, we delve into the captivating world of...
Apple Spotify Google Amazon Music Episode Summary In this episode, we explore using fall as a teaching tool in the...
Teaching students to observe is one of the most important skills that students learn in science. Students learn to build their own knowledge of the world around them, ask questions, and observe what is really happening in front of them. Teaching students to observe...
Kindergarten science centers are great to spark interest and curiosity and to develop observation skills. Science centers can be done in any classroom. Despite what you might think, they don’t need a lot of stuff or require a lot of work! I will show...
Some of the most authentic learning that happens in my classroom comes from integrating the different subjects. Young children are not designed to learn in silos, in separate subject areas. They learn best when these subject areas can be combined when learning about different...
One of my all-time favorite science units is the chick life cycle. I love giving my students the opportunity to watch the chick develop inside the egg, hatch, and grow! The chick life cycle is always a student favorite, and one they remember for...
One of the biggest concepts I teach my students in science throughout the year is life cycles. We learn all different kinds of life cycles and each cycle I follow a similar routine! Do you do life cycles activities in your classroom? Check out...