Guided Math Lessons: Addition and Subtraction

I just posted my guided math lessons for addition and subtraction on TPT.  The pack includes differentiated lessons for your students along with the materials you will need to teach the lessons.  These are not all the lessons I teach my 1st graders, these are the guided lessons I use to help support my mini lessons.  I teach my mini lessons whole group and my guided lessons are to support individual needs of the students.

  This is my personal favorite part of these lesson plans.  They are differentiated already for my groups and I can use this section to really teach my lesson at each students level.  I can see where the students need help and move between the Remediation, On Grade Level, and Enrich, when I have the students at my table.

Indoor Snowball Fight

This is what I made for my nephew for Christmas.  I also made one for myself because they were so cute.  I also found this idea on Pinterest.
The can is a large fruit can that I got from a school cafeteria.  I sponge painted it green, white, and blue.  Then I painted the nose orange once the white dried, and then I took a black sharpie marker and did the eyes and mouth and letters.  Then I filled it with white pom balls that I made out of yarn.

This is what the balls look like inside of the tin.  I took white yarn and wrapped it around a binder 150 times.  Then I took it off the binder and tied yarn around it to section it off. I had 4 sections.  then I cut the ends and the middle of each section to create a pom-pom.  I trimmed up to make it into a ball shape when necessary.  12 poms fit into the can.  So I had to repeat the yarn steps a few times.

"Homemade" Donuts

These are Super easy and Yummy!
I found this idea on Pinterest and I decided to see if it would work...it DOES!
These donuts are made from Pilsbury Grands biscuits.  You take a biscuit and cut the center out.  Then stick it in the deep fryer.  When it is floating, you turn it over and cook the other side.  Then I took them out and covered them with sugar and cinnamon.  They were delicious.  Mr. K doesn't like sweets...and he thought they were delicious.  I an very excited to be able to make these anytime I want!

Christmas cookies

These were the Christmas cookies that I made for the cookie exchange this year.  They turned out pretty cute, so i wanted to share them with you.  I used royal icing (my first time using it) to decorate the cookies.  I got the recipe from Pinterest, and i like it because it dries hard, so I was able to stack the cookies without them getting messy.  I also used a normal sugar cookie recipe that I found on Pinterest, but I used multi-grain flour instead of white flour (because that is all I had in the cabinet) This made the cookies turn out darker than normal but didn't change the taste too much.  The icing is not very thick so its not over powering the cookie.  I made holly leaves with berries, gingerbread man, candy canes, stockings, gloves, snowflakes, and Santa hats. SUPER CUTE!!!! I will be doing this again next year.  They also make very cute gifts.

These 2 were my favorite out of all the Christmas cookies.  I liked them all but these 2 I loved.

Fall Wreath

This weekend I was decorating for fall and I didn't have a wreath to hang up.  I went shopping and saw wreaths at the dollar tree. I bought a few and decided to make one.

I also bought the ribbon at the dollar tree and the flowers.  All together this cost me only $3!  I separated the flowers and glued them and the ribbon to the wreath.  It turned out really cute.

Wedding Stuff

I made my own vial for my wedding.  I went to Wal-mart and bought ivory tule and plastic jems from the craft section.  I already had a comb and my aunt attached small rubber bands to the comb side and then I glued the jems to the comb and randomly along the vial.

I wanted it to be simple, but sparkle in the sun since I had an outdoor wedding.

I also made these memory "books"  out of all the cards that we received for our engagement, shower, and wedding.

 This was my money bag that I used for my bridal dance.  The bridal dance is a Western Pennsylvania tradition where all the guests put money in the bag to dance with the bride. As the guests are finished dancing with the bride(1 minute) they form a circle around her and her parents are the last people to dance with her.  Once the bride's father dances with her, the groom has to try to break through the circle to get his bride.  This is done at the reception after the ceremony and is A LOT of fun...but tiring. My colors were blue and yellow for my wedding and I found this draw string back pack at target for $1 in the dollar section.  I took it home and cut the strings so that it was still a drawstring bag, but it wasn't a back pack anymore.  Then I used silver puffy paint to make the K and write KUBICEK under it (for our last name) and then I added out date below our name.  I got a lot of compliments on the bag so I wanted to share it with you since it was so simple but so cute.

Shower Curtain on a Window

In my Craft Room, I have a shower curtain hanging over my window.  It was a fun print and it is long enough to cover the window.