M Squared Academics

Whether you'll be teaching in person, or virtually, this New Year Goal Setting Bundle is an excellent resource to implement and alleviate the back to school stress.

It Includes our 3 NY Resources for 2022!
- My Vision Board Project
- 2022 New Year's Reflection
- 2022 New Years Countdown

Additionally, all resources comes in a digital format (Google Slides & Powerpoint), as well as a printable PDF in black and white. 🖤

Available in our M Squared Academics TPT store!

Happy New Year to all of our followers and educators! ✨

We love the beginning of a new year because it is the end of one amazing chapter and provides us with endless opportunities for the next one.

We usually find ourselves reflecting and creating resolutions this time of year, which many of the time become forgotten. This year we both want to change that. With all of the obstacles we have experienced throughout the beginning of this academic year, we have had a difficult time finding balance. We created our TPT account, and teacher Instagram, for the purpose of helping others find their personal and work life balance - yet, we clearly know how difficult it it can be.

Our New Year resolution will be to focus on self-love and ensuring we have time for our both our careers and our passions. We want to travel more, laugh more and appreciate all of the little things in life that we often take for granite. Our goal is to ensure we create amazing content and resources for our fellow educators, so that everyone's resolutions are more attainable.

We are very excited for what 2022 has in store for us!

Do you create New Year resolutions for yourself? If so, what are yours? 💖

New Resource Alert ✨

Looking for an easy and engaging back to school activity? Whether you will be teaching remotely, or in the classroom, this Vision Board Project is an excellent way to start 2022. 🥳

Everybody can benefit from goal setting this time of the year; however, that can seem overwhelming. This resource is a step-by-step guide to help your students create goals in various areas of their lives, as well as allows them to represent them using a vision board.

This Resource Includes:
- Vision Board Explanation
- Organizer for Academic Goals
- Organizer for Personal Goals
- Brainstorm your Steps to Achieve the Goals
- Motivational Quotes
- Inspiring Words
- Places I Want to Visit
- People that Inspire Me
- I Want to Continue...
- I Want to Try...
- Vision Board Instructions, Success Criteria and Exemplar
- Vision Board Rubric

Additionally, this resource comes in a digital format (Google Slides & Powerpoint), as well as a printable PDF in black and white. 🖤

Looking for a great team building challenge, that highlights learning skills and work habits? Here is the Paper Chain Challenge. ⛓✨

Students worked in groups of 3, with limited materials, to try and make the longest paper chain possible.

Without much direction, the students worked with one piece of construction paper, two pairs of scissors and a glue stick and had only 15 minutes to complete the task.

When the time was up, each paper chain was displayed and we discussed their experiences.

- What went well?
- Which strategies did you use?
- What was difficult?
- If we repeated the challenge, what would you change?

I then highlighted how each of the learning skills and work habits were present in the challenge. How did they collaborate? Were they fulfilling their responsibilities? Did they organize their time well? Did they take any initiative? Did they self regulate? Students were amazed with all of the connections and we had a very meaningful conversation.

Then, we repeated the challenge again and look at the difference (left compared to right).

This is CLEAR and VISUAL evidence of learning.

Welcome Back Teachers! ✨

Firstly, we want wish you a happy transition back to the classroom and we hope you had a nice, relaxing Summer Break to recharge.

We have created a resource that will help you begin your school year organized and ready fo meet your students.

Looking for Slide Templates to start of your year? This digital resource allows you to organize all the important information that you will need to share with your students during the first week, in one resource. Additionally, there are slides that allow you to introduce yourself to your new friends, and a matching activity for you to begin to know all of your new learners right from the start. 

What is Included in the ‘Meet The Teacher & Important Information’ Slides
* Various Designs for Cover Pages, which are Personalized by Grade (K-8)
* Meet Your Teacher
* About Me
* My Favourites
* My Family (Multiples Layouts)
* My Fur Baby/ Babies (Multiples Layouts)
* My Hobbies
* Fun Facts
* Snap Shots
* Schedule 
* Routines/Expectations
* Recess/Lunch
* Homework Policy
* School Supplies
* Technology Policy
* Subjects: Reading, Writing, Math, Science, Social Studies, History, Geography, Phys. Ed/Health, Religion, The Arts, Other
* Health and Safety
* Google Classroom
* Online Platform
* Additional Info
* Create Your Own (Fonts are Embedded in the PowerPoint Version)

What is Included in ‘Meet Your Student’ Slides
* Various Designs for Cover Page
* About Me
* My Favourites
* My Family 
* Two Truths and a Lie
* More Fun Facts
* My Favourite Summer Memory
* My Feelings About this Year
* Vision Board with Goal Setting
* Letter to My Future Self

✨HELLO TEACHERS✨

We hope you are all enjoying your summer break and enjoying this much deserved time to recharge for the upcoming academic year !

We have been taking some time away from social media to relax & refocus, so we can be ready for September & collaborate with our fellow teaching community !

We are currently soaking up the sun in the Amalfi Coast and eating LOTS of pizza & pasta ! 🍝

How have you been enjoying your summer break? Comment below to let us know!

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NEW RESOURCE ALERT ✨.

ENGAGE YOUR CLASS WITH PROJECT BASED LEARNING:

Planning a Camping Trip 🏕

Engage your class with this easy-to-use Camping Trip planning project. This is a great culminating activity, enrichment assignment and/or end of year task for your students. This digital resource will reinforce concepts, as well as truly engage your students in their learning on over 50 editable slides.

This project-based learning activity provides an opportunity for students to apply mathematics, science, as well as literacy concepts to a real-world scenario.

What is Included?
- Expectations of your Trip
- Choosing a Destination
- Explaining your Choice as a Result of Physical Characteristics
- Mapping out the Route
- Packing 10 Campsite Essentials
- Creating a Campsite
- Creating a Campsite Layout
- Calculating Area and Perimeter of your Campsite
- Calculate the Surface Area of Various Tents
- Calculate the Volume of Various Tents
- Exploring Ecosystems, Biotic and Abiotic Elements on a Hike
- Classifying, and Describing, Plant Life and Wild Life
- Shopping for Camping Essentials
- Shopping for S’mores Ingredients
- Shopping for Items to Start a Camp Fire
- Making S’mores Procedural Writing
- Starting a Fire Procedural Writing
- Camping Scrapbook
- Math Answer Key
- 4 Rubrics - for Science, Math, and Procedural Writing

This is a NO PREP RESOURCE. Thorough instructions, assessment opportunities, and rubrics are included for each activity!

DIGITAL RESOURCE AVAILABLE IN GOOGLE SLIDES & POWERPOINT FORMAT

We are still new to the Instagram teacher community, but already feel so welcomed. Thank you to everyone that has been interacting with us! We are learning so much from all of you. 💖

This is a busy time of the year, especially for teachers that need to finish up their reports. Self-care is super important! We need to take care of ourselves, in order to give our all to our students.

Remember, you can't pour from an empty cup ☕️

So please take some time to relax and enjoy the beautiful weather, even if it's only for a few hours.

✨What did you do this weekend to focus on your own self-care? Let us know below!