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!

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Getting Students to Add More Details in Their Writing ~ Ep. 128

Tips for a Successful Kindergarten Field Trip ~ Ep. 127

Making the Shift to Systematic Phonics Instruction with Melanie ~ Ep. 126

Kindergarten Addition Tips and Extensions ~ Ep. 125

Small Group Ideas for Kindergarten Reading Comprehension ~ Ep. 124

Technology

Parent Communication Made Easy with ClassTag

Teaching Tips and Tricks

Teachers have a million things to worry about during the year, but don’t let parent communication be one of them! ClassTag has everything I have ever looked for in a parent communication tool. I’ll get into all the parent communication features, but my favorite feature? ClassTag...

Benefits to Reading Strategy Powerpoints

Literacy

I love using reading powerpoints to enhance my reading instruction. Reading powerpoints showcase different reading strategies, use powerful shared reading technique, and encourages transfer of the reading skills. Reading strategies There are so many reading strategies you can teach with reading powerpoints. They are great for teaching one-to-one...

New Year, New Zoom Activities

Distance and Digital Teaching

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 favorite zoom...

Making Google Classroom Easy For You and Your Students!

Distance and Digital Teaching

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 students that...

7 Zoom Tools for Engagement and Understanding

Distance and Digital Teaching

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 written about...

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...