The January Activity Journal From Book Creator Is Here, Friends! Remix and Share With Your Students To Kick Off The New Year.

It's almost January and time for the January Journal Activity Book from Book Creator. 

Our students are in for a treat this month as the January Journal is packed full of fun and meaningful activities within the pages of this book. 

From the very first pages, 

and through the table of contents, students will be engaged and excited about all of these special days in January. 

Take a look at a few of these pages! 

And don't forget that you can get all of the Monthly Activity Journals in the back of the January Activity Journal too.

You will find the January Journal Activity Book here. 

Remix the December Activity Journal and make it your own. You can change up any of the pages and then share it with your students. 

The Book Creator Activity Journals are perfect to share in our classrooms and libraries. I love sharing these with my teachers every month so they can complete them with their students in class, or give them to students as a special place for journaling and time for free choice. 

                     

Get Book Creator today, friends.

Three New Books Join My ISTE Digital Explorers Series On January 1st!

 

I have exciting news to share, friends. 

On January 1, 2026, three new books join my ISTE Digital Explorers series.  They are Brianna's Butterfly Discovery, Carly's Tough Task, and Nabil Goes Global. 

Each story in this early chapter book series I created with Capstone and ISTE, focuses on one ISTE Student Standard. Young readers will be inspired to engage with technology in thoughtful, responsible, and innovative ways to learn, grow, and connect in our digital world. 

In fact, they Sonia, her friends, and family, from my picture book, Sonia's Digital World. 

The first one in this new series, Sonia Speaks Up, can be found here on NetGalley. 

The standards are shown in the I Am A Digital Explorer poster.

You will find all of the books here on the Capstone site.  

And be on the look out for a special giveaway next week that I will be hosting on Instagram and Twitter. 

Snowmen Stories Come to Life: A 2nd Grade Winter Project with Book Creator!

 

I have a special winter Book Creator project our 2nd graders created to share with you!  

My colleague and friend, Emily Webster, one of our 2nd grade teachers, reached out to me before the holiday and asked if I would do a fun project using Book Creator with her class.  

Emily read Snowmen at Night to her students, and had them write stories....

...about what they would do if they were a snowman at night.  

When we told them they would be creating their snowman stories using Book Creator, the 2nd graders were so excited. 

 

I went over how they would type their story in Book Creator.  

They could add their voice reading the story too. 

For their illustrations, we introduced the Adobe AI Image Generator included in the Apps section of Book Creator.  

Read more about the AI Image Generator addition to Book Creator here.

We learned about writing a descriptive prompt to...

...generate an image for their snowman story. 

They loved creating images for their stories...

..and did an amazing job being descriptive and creative. 

It was so fun to see what they created using Book Creator. 

They loved using other Book Creator features including the camera to add their picture, fonts and highlights, 

icons, backgrounds, and this little friend even took a picture with her Chromebook of her story and uploaded it to Book Creator. 

When they were finished, I created a book called What Do Our Snowmen Do At Night, added a cover, and copied all of their stories into this one. 

To share it with their families, I published the book.  When you publish a book in Book Creator, it generated a QR code and gives you a link.  I took the QR code and put it on the front cover and created a bit.ly with the link.  

We copied the front book cover so each student has a copy to share with their families and show how their snowmen stories came to life using Book Creator. 

  

Get Book Creator today, friends. This is the perfect project to kick off the winter season when we go back after the holidays.