Leftin's Letters

Focus: Letters…. Identifying and writing letters as well as making and recognizing the letter sounds. Transitioning from letters to sight words and creating a digital notebook with each letter of the alphabet and all the kindergarten sight words for the year.

I was using an app called Book Creator where I made a prototype of a sight word book (since we had already learned the letters and were deep into the sight words at that point in the year). I chose the three words from that week and make pages for each where the word was on the page, and the kids needed to record them reading the word, writing the word, and taking a photo of something that matched the word.

When I tried to share this with the students I realized that since I was using the free version of Book Creator, I was not able to airdrop or share this with the kids in a way that they could open it in Book creator. My next thought was to upload it to SeeSaw for them. I thought they could open it in there as a template and do all the same tasks.... WRONG! When they opened it the only options were to add a caption and a recording.

The caption was at the bottom of the page, not in the designated spot, and when they record, they could only do one recording.... which means every page has to be a separate assignment and it can't be in a book format. Moral of the story: I need the paid version of the app so I can Air Drop it to the students and they can open it in Book Creator.

I definitely learned a lot more about Book Creator and used it to do several other projects in my class this year as a result. The kids made nonfiction books about their families using what they learned about nonfiction text features.