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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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Social Emotional Learning and Supports

Strategies for ADHD Students

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon
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Every classroom has students who struggle with staying focused in school, whether or not students have a diagnosis of ADHD. The focusing strategies for students with ADHD will help all students who struggle with staying on task and working, regardless of a diagnosis. The...
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Helping Children Regulate Their Emotions

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon
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When children have extreme reactions or temper-tantrums, it can be extremely overwhelming for teachers to handle day after day. Teachers need to know how to react in the moment, as well as the best ways for helping children regulate their emotions to help with...
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How to get students to stop talking too much

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon
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Have you ever wondered how to get students to stop talking too much and after trying all your normal tricks, nothing seems to work? It can certainly get frustrating as a teacher when your students won't stop talking. I have been there! But we...
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Teaching kids how to be kind

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon
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Teaching kids how to be kind is one of the most important things we can do as teachers, and it doesn’t have to be complicated! When we explicitly teach our students what kindness is and give them concrete, specific examples of kindness, we can...
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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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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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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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Helping Kids Make Good Choices

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon
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Children don’t naturally know what the expectations are and how they should follow them. They need to be explicitly taught this. Teachers should be helping kids make good choices by teaching them the difference between expected and unexpected behaviors. When Helping...
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