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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!

What’s in my Math Toolbox?

Math Zeba McGibbon
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The same tools can be used to meet a variety of skills for math small groups or interventions. I keep my math...
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4 Tips for Teaching Sentences to Beginning Writers

Literacy Zeba McGibbon
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When teaching beginning writers, it is important to teach them how to write a sentence. I have 4 tips for you when...
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Teaching Living and Non-Living Things in Kindergarten

Science Zeba McGibbon
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Teaching about living and non-living things is a crucial foundation to all life sciences, life cycles, biology and ecology. Thinking about living...
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Turning Misbehaviors In The Classroom into Teachable Moments

Social Emotional Learning and Supports Zeba McGibbon
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The secret to good teaching? Finding those teachable moments and running with them. Good social-emotional instruction involves...
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7 Tips for Difficult Parent-Teacher Conferences

Teaching Tips and Tricks Zeba McGibbon
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I’m not sure about you, but I have Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences this week. With the upcoming conferences, I’m thinking ahead to some...
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3D Shapes for Kindergarten

Math Zeba McGibbon
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Teaching about 3-Dimensional (3D) Shapes for Kindergarten involves hands-on exploring, explicit teaching, and linking 3D shapes to our real world. With these...
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Teaching High-Frequency Words in Kindergarten

Literacy Zeba McGibbon
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When learning to read and write, learning high frequency words quickly and purposefully can make all the difference. In this blog post,...
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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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