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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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Distance and Digital Teaching

Remote Teaching: What I Will and Won’t Miss

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon
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I’ve been teaching remotely for almost a full year… I have just a few weeks left. Many said it couldn’t be done and I am here to prove that it could. My students learned just as much as they would have in the classroom....
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New Year, New Zoom Activities

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon
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If you have been remote teaching like me, you might be bored of the same zoom activities over and over again. Or, maybe you are transitioning from hybrid to remote and need some activity ideas. Well, I’ve got you covered! Here are my new...
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Reflecting on Teaching in 2020

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon
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This summer, I wrote about the crisis of education and how educators everywhere were feeling. I still can’t believe the number of teachers who reached out to me or shared my post and said that they were feeling the exact same way as me....
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Are children falling behind?

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon
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It’s all over the news and all over Facebook. It’s all I hear at parent-teacher conferences. “Our children are falling behind.” “We need testing to see how far behind our children are.” “How far behind is my child?” Let me be very clear. Many...
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Offering choices in remote learning

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon
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I think as teachers we are pretty comfortable with providing choices for students in our traditional classrooms, and we understand the importance of choices. Children need choices to feel a sense of ownership over their schoolwork and decisions. Children are stretching their independence and...
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Making Google Classroom Easy For You and Your Students!

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon
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I am new to Google Classroom this year and have been trying out different strategies to make it easy to use for me and my students. This year, I have been asked to teach 3rd grade, so my experience with Google Classroom is with...
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Easy Self-Regulation Strategies

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon
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It is so important to teach our students self-regulation strategies, but it is even more important this year. Students need to be taught these strategies and have the chance to practice them before they are needed. When a child is in an emotional crisis,...
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Helping Students Focus At Home

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon
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Learning at home is very different than learning at school and we need to support our students to do their best in this new environment. We can use strategies we already use in the classroom and share them with students and families to help...
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Literacy intervention for distance learning

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon
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With this new way of teaching, whether you are in-person or on a computer, you may be wondering how to make sure we are supporting students where they are with their literacy development. I am here to help! Zoom Tricks
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7 Zoom Tools for Engagement and Understanding

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon
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I have learned a lot this year about this new way of teaching on a computer. There are so many technologies available to us, but in order to really use them effectively, we need to learn how to use them with purpose.  I have...
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