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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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Teaching Tips and Tricks

What are feelings and how do we handle them?

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon
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What are feelings and how do we handle them? Children don’t come to us understanding what their emotions are or how they should handle them, especially the more difficult emotions. So how do we teach our students to identify and regulate their emotions?
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Homework in kindergarten? What’s best for students?

Teaching Tips and TricksZeba McGibbon
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Homework in kindergarten? Sending home some worksheets ends up being more work for you, the teacher, causes stress and struggles for the families, and isn’t effective for the students. So what can we do instead? Homework in kindergarten? Research shows it’s...
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Teaching Listening Skills at the Start of the Year

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon
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Teaching listening skills at the start of the year is so important it is actually the first social emotional skill that I teach during the year. There are two different important parts to teaching listening: how to show we are listening, and why we...
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5 Easy things to prepare for next school year

Teaching Tips and TricksZeba McGibbon
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I know that the end of the year is fast approaching, for some faster than others (like myself… who still has 1 month left of school!). When the end of the year is upon us, we get very excited about summer vacation, but what...
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3 Simple Ways to Prevent the Summer Slide

Teaching Tips and TricksZeba McGibbon
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Teachers and parents alike are always looking for ways to prevent the summer slide. We work so hard all year to help our students make progress and then summer happens and… they forget it all! Summer slide is a real thing, but teachers and...
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How to Teach Classroom Procedures and Routines

Teaching Tips and TricksZeba McGibbon
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As you start to get ready for back to school, establishing classroom procedures and routines should be in the front of your mind. Decorating your classroom and rearranging the furniture, yes it’s a lot of fun to think about and to do, but it...
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What does Empathy Mean to a Kindergartener?

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon
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Empathy is the hardest social emotional skill for young children to learn because developmentally young children have difficulty taking perspectives. Knowing the developmental stage that young children are in, what does empathy mean to a kindergartener?
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Why Respect is Important in the Classroom

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon
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Teaching students social emotional skills is so important in every classroom and at every age. Today I’m going to teach you why respect is important in the classroom and how we can teach respect to our young students. What is respect...
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Why Cooperation is Important in the Classroom

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon
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Are your students struggling to work or play together? They probably need to learn cooperation. In this blog post I am going to teach you why cooperation is important in the classroom and how you can help your students learn and practice cooperation.
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Tracking student progress easily

Classroom Activities and LessonsZeba McGibbon
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Effective teaching involves routinely tracking student progress. How can teachers be tracking student progress in a way that enhances their instruction, rather than takes away from it? I hope to go through some of my routines and structures that I have set up on...
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