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

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What to Do When a Child Won’t Stop Crying ~ Ep. 26

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7 Zoom Tools for Engagement and Understanding

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon

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...

A Digital Halloween

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon

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...

Strategies for Anxiety

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon

Many students this year will need support with anxious feelings. In this previous blog post, we learned about what anxiety is, where it comes from, how it might appear in students, and books for children about anxiety. Today, I am going to teach you...

Books to Support Anxiety

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon

Last week, I introduced anxiety and the differences between typical anxieties and anxiety disorders. You may be looking for more resources to support students with anxiety and I am here to help! I have gathered up my favorite books for teaching about worries, modeling...

Anxiety in Children

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon

As we go back to school, we should expect that many students will have some anxieties. We all are! Students will be worried about getting sick or someone in their family getting sick. These worries may appear in different ways for different students. It...

5 Steps to Making an Interactive Seesaw Activity

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon

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...

Quick and Easy Movement Breaks for Distance Learning

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon

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!

Teaching Digital Routines

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon

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...

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

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon

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...

Digital Morning Meeting

Distance and Digital TeachingZeba McGibbon

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...