Blog Posts - Kindergarten Cafe

You can't teach the child without teaching the WHOLE child! Welcome to Kindergarten Cafe, LLC - your home for teaching ideas, activities, and strategies to support you in teaching the whole child! 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-Second grade can find resources here for their students! I love to connect with other teachers so please reach out and say hello!

A Developmental Approach to Teaching Writing with Melissa from Teaching to Transform ~ Ep. 114

Literacy

Apple Spotify Amazon Music If you don't allow that independent time where they are showing you whether they want to write or not, showing you whether they...

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Managing Math Expectations and Math Materials ~ Ep. 113

Math

Apple Spotify Amazon Music Counting collections are an awesome way to give kids lots of extra accounting practice. And as they get going through the year, they...

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A Kindergarten Social Studies Year-Long Plan ~ Ep. 112

Classroom Activities and Lessons

Apple Spotify Amazon Music We zoom out to our local community, Then we zoom out even further to our global community. And we can use that as...

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A Kindergarten Social Studies Unit: Families ~ Ep. 111

PODCAST

Apple Spotify Amazon Music It's a great launching off point when you're talking about families to then talk about, well, some families have different religions, some families...

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Honest Talk on Handling Teacher Burnout and Difficult Students ~ Ep. 110

Classroom Management

Apple Spotify Amazon Music You can only do so much because your job is to help the classroom of students. You have to help the whole classroom....

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Kindergarten Case Study: Supporting Students With Big Emotions ~ Ep. 109

PODCAST

Apple Spotify Amazon Music We are more than teachers, as you know, we do so much more. But one of our biggest jobs is actually detective, because...

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How to Teach Emotional Intelligence in Kindergarten ~ Ep. 108

PODCAST

Apple Spotify Amazon Music It's super important to spend time explicitly teaching kids what the different feelings are, how to identify them, and then strategies they can...

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Creating Meaningful Parent-Teacher Partnerships ~ Ep. 107

PODCAST

Apple Spotify Amazon Music The biggest complaint that I get from parents at conferences is that their kids don't talk to them about what they're doing in...

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Kindergarten Small Groups for Teaching Letter Sounds ~ Ep. 106

Literacy

Apple Spotify Amazon Music This is your permission slip to be creative with the way your small groups are and that really small groups should be about...

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Kindergarten Case Study: Supporting Kindergarteners With No Letter Knowledge ~ Ep. 105

Literacy

Apple Spotify Amazon Music Don't panic if they don't know all their letters and sounds when they are first coming to kindergarten. It's okay because you are...

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