Welcome to Kindergarten Cafe!

I’m Zeba, and I’m here to help you find the *kindergarten magic* in your classroom. I create resources and share strategies to make your teaching easier, more engaging, and focused on those magical moments of growth with your students. Whether you teach kindergarten, preschool, or first grade, you’ll find ideas and activities to bring that *kindergarten magic* to life. Feel free to reach out—let’s make teaching kindergarten magical again!

recent

Engaging End-of-Year Activities for Kindergarteners ~ Ep. 133

Supporting Students who Struggle With Mistakes

Building Self-Confidence In Kindergarteners ~ Ep. 131

What Every Dramatic Play Center Really Needs ~ Ep. 130

What Principals Really Want You to Know About Hiring, Interviews, and Getting the Job ~ Ep. 129

Distance and Digital Teaching

A Digital Halloween

Halloween is a holiday that many American children look forward to every year, and this year children might be experiencing a range of emotions about the upcoming holiday. They may be worried about what they can’t do (like some towns are not allowing trick or treating)...

5 Steps to Making an Interactive Seesaw Activity

Distance and Digital Teaching

Are you using Seesaw this year or considering it for any hybrid or remote learning? It is a wonderful website and app for supporting learning at home, but it is also awesome to use in the classroom. There are many benefits to using Seesaw for communicating...

Quick and Easy Movement Breaks for Distance Learning

Distance and Digital Teaching

No matter if you are teaching in a classroom or on a computer, your students will need movement beaks and your normal movement breaks might not work in this new setting. Here are my favorite go-to activities to use with students! P.S. Some of these slides and...

Teaching Digital Routines

Distance and Digital Teaching

Many of us will be doing some kind of distance teaching this year, whether we are teaching fully remotely or a hybrid with students in front of us and students on the computer at home. While we may feel very comfortable teaching routines to our students...

Easy Morning Meeting Greetings and Activities for Digital and Socially Distant Classrooms!

Distance and Digital Teaching

Looking for easy interactive morning meeting greetings and activities that can work on a computer and/or in a socially distanced classroom? I’ve got a bunch of ideas for you that worked really well for me! Looking for other distance learning support? Check out these blog posts...

Digital Morning Meeting

Distance and Digital Teaching

Morning meeting is such a critical time of the school day. It sets the foundation for building connections and relationships with students, as well as sets the tone and expectations for the day. Children benefit from a consistent routine and starting every day with a morning...

Google Slides for Teachers

Distance and Digital Teaching

When it comes to distance learning, the tool I have used more than ever before is Google Slides for teachers! I found it extremely helpful for staff, students, families, and myself to have all the pieces of our lessons and meetings mapped out on Google Slides!...

Dear Public, From Teachers

Distance and Digital Teaching

Hey world, it’s me, a teacher. Remember us teachers? Remember when just 3 months ago you were calling us, “heroes” and saying things like, “teachers should get paid millions of dollars every day?!” Yes, believe it or not teachers today are those same people teaching right...