Mrs. Garcia’s Dream Catcher Bulletin Board

Mrs. Garcia’s second grade class discussed dreams and how they would try to accomplish them. However, what children wish for doesn’t magically occur. The students researched possible ways to make those dreams come true.

When the students came to the lab, they drew their dreams on the iPad using the Drawing Box app. (I like the paid version because there are more tools,) When finished, the children learned how to save the drawing to the camera roll so that it could be used for the second part of the project.

The next step was to create a new book in the Book Creator app. This is one of my very favorite apps! It is simple to use for all ages. Students can email books to me and these can be very quickly combined into a class book. Love it!!

The students easily inserted their photo into Book Creator, recorded their narration, and then emailed the book to me. I compiled the individual books into one class book which was uploaded to Dropbox so that it could be shared with parents. (See below for instructions.)

Apps used to create and publish the class book.

Chasing Our Dreams Class Book

Directions to download books to your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, etc):

• You will need the iBooks app (free) installed on your iOS device.
• Click on the book link above (while on your iOS device).
• Tap on the download button.
• Choose Open in . . . and then choose Open in iBooks
• The book is now in iBooks on your iOS device.

Directions to read the ePub book on a computer:

• You must use Google Chrome as your browser so that you can download the Readium app. The app will not work on any other browser.
• Instructions on Reading ePub Books with the Google Chrome Readium App