Book Creator Creation(1st grader authored own book)

Mr. Chicken The World Traveler

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

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Book Creator (1st grader creation with template)

About Me

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

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a Presidents' project from February

Scroll down to see the video-this pic isn't the project ;)

I am enjoying Philadelphia, even if it is raining… My hubby, Dannie, and I  went to see the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall while we waited on the rest of the gang to get here-(our flight was an earlier flight).  I thought I would include our picture(even though we were drenched) along with a presidents project my kids and I did in February since we are in one of our founding fathers' historical cities.  Here's what we did..

1.  The kids picked one or two presidents.
2.  They searched for images with guidance.
3.  They acquired personal dates for each president.
4.  They created a scrapbook page with the picture(s) and info they found.
5.  They saved their pages to my Dropbox (president folder).
6.  I pulled all of the pages together in Book Creator.

*special treat at the end of this video

Showbie and Book Creator, GREAT together

1.  Create a Showbie Book Creator class.  

2.  Create a template in Book Creator that 

goes along with what you are studying.

3.  Kids will then open the template in their

Book Creator.

4. The kids can edit by filling in blanks and 

adding pictures.

5.  Kids export either ePub, pdf, video.

*My kids placed theirs in a Dropbox folder that I could share with parents.

CLASS EBOOK-CREATED WITH BOOK CREATOR

HERE IS A CLASS BOOK CREATED WITH BOOK CREATOR BEFORE MY KIDDOS ALL HAD THE BOOK CREATOR APP ON THEIR IPADS. 2013-2014

The kids use ABSOLUTE BOARD to create their pictures then added to my DROPBOX.  I pulled them altogether on BOOK CREATOR to create this class book.

Book Creator template-ALL ABOUT ME

Here is another example of what you can create with Book Creator. 

 

Below is the template Ainsley used to create her book.

BOOK CREATOR CREATION by a 1st grader

Here is an example of what your kiddos can do with BOOK CREATOR!  The idea for this story began sitting at the corner during group time-I was reading A Dog Called Kitty by Bill Wallace to my 1st graders.  As we were talking about how important our pets are and contemplating what animals think and feel… I told the kids about my mother-in-law's pet chicken she had as a child, her chicken was named Jenni.  After our discussion and story, a couple of the kids wanted to write a paragraph about a chicken-this story came from Reese Richardson.  She obviously had some terrific ideas and, WOW, what a knowledge of people and places.  PS.  Her mama is a high school English teacher, so…. ;)

Book Creator template: MY ABC book

TO DOWNLOAD:  Follow the directions in the Noun Book post previous to this one.  This is a GREAT activity for Kinders and 1st grade(beginning of the year-while reviewing letters and sounds) Common Core L.1.1.a and RF.K.1.d.

*THIS IS A VERY SIMPLE TEMPLATE-YOU LET THE KIDS ADD OR CREATE THEIR OWN PICTURES TO EACH LETTERS PAGE.

Book Creator template-MY NOUN BOOK

Downloading Instructions(assuming you have DROPBOX and BOOK CREATOR) *may be able download without dropbox-unsure

You may also want to save to DROPBOX or SHOWBIE if you you want your kids to add to their iPad. THIS WORKED FOR ME-

THIS IS A SIMPLE TEMPLATE.  KIDS ADD OR CREATE THEIR OWN PICTURES TO EACH PAGE.  THIS ACTIVITY GOES ALONG WITH COMMON CORE L.1.1.b and L.K.1.b.

iPads in Our 1st Grade Classroom

In this video you will see that the kids did most of the interviewing with their own iPads.  I simply pulled all of the material together to create our iMovie.  This video is one of the  featured videos in our school's iBook that that we entered to be named an Apple Distinguished school.

Here are some of the things you observe in the video:

~iPads used in center time with manipulatives such as word tiles for the app Word Wizard.
~RAZ Kids, a Learning A-Z app-kids read on their own level and at their own pace.
~Spelling City- Kids practice their weekly spelling words
~Book Creator-kids and teacher create class books on their own and together
~Showbie-students complete worksheet type work on their iPad…beginners take a little time to
   learn how to manipulate the screen and using a stylus…I LOVE it when the kids figure it out, it
   saves time and a TON of paper.
~Kidblog-we dabbled very little with this, hopefully I can give it another go next year.
~Scrappad-kids create digital scrapbook pages-they love this!
~QR Code Reader like iNigma-there are many others