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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!

Read Across America Week

Classroom Activities and Lessons Zeba McGibbon
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In case you haven’t heard, teachers and the National Educators Association are moving away from celebrating Dr. Seuss during Read Across America...
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Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Math Zeba McGibbon
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I love the time of year when we can start working on addition and subtraction strategies in math. There are three key...
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Phoneme Segmentation

Literacy Zeba McGibbon
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The best way to increase your students’ reading and writing development is to work on phoneme segmentation. There is a clear order...
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Letter-Sound Correspondence

Literacy Zeba McGibbon
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One of the most important concepts for kindergarteners to learn for their early literacy development is letter-sound correspondence. Children need to know...
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Benefits to Reading Strategy Powerpoints

Literacy Zeba McGibbon
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I love using reading powerpoints to enhance my reading instruction. Reading powerpoints showcase different reading strategies, use powerful shared reading technique, and...
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4 Simple Ways to Include Dramatic Play At Home

Dramatic Play Zeba McGibbon
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Dramatic play is a staple of the early childhood classroom and purposeful play. Dramatic play can easily be done at home, as...
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5 Favorite Winter Activities

Classroom Activities and Lessons Zeba McGibbon
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Not sure about you, but winter is my favorite time of year. I get so excited with the change of seasons and...
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New Year, New Zoom Activities

Distance and Digital Teaching Zeba McGibbon
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If you have been remote teaching like me, you might be bored of the same zoom activities over and over again. Or,...
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Reflecting on Teaching in 2020

Distance and Digital Teaching Zeba McGibbon
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This summer, I wrote about the crisis of education and how educators everywhere were feeling. I still can’t believe the number of...
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Are children falling behind?

Distance and Digital Teaching Zeba McGibbon
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It’s all over the news and all over Facebook. It’s all I hear at parent-teacher conferences. “Our children are falling behind.” “We...
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