The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

 

Title: The Tiny Seed
Author: Eric Carle
Scholastic
Genre: Non-Fiction/Informational

The story of the Tiny Seed begins with mentioning the season, Autumn. It goes on to explaining that the win is blowing flower seeds everywhere: up and down and side to side. One seed goes so high up that it burns from the sun, another goes so high up that it lands on a frozen ice mountain where it cannot be planted through the ice, another crosses the ocean and does not fly high enough to make it across, one of the seeds drifts off to the desert and cannot grow because of the dry heat, another seed gets eaten by a bird! Meanwhile, there are still seeds left flying around in the wind when the season changes to Winter. Another flower seed gets eaten by a mouse underneath the snow, the tiniest seed is still surviving because it is so small! Later it turns to spring and the weather starts to heat up and the snow begins to melt which results in the seeds being able to plant and begin to grow! There are ups and downs throughout the Spring, but the tiny seed begins to grow into a plant finally!! The seed was so tiny that the plant is tiny and growing much slower than the rest, which means that the tiny seed gets to stay alive longer. Finally, Summer comes along and the tiny seed that turned into a tiny plant is all by itself, it gets rained on and the sun shines on it every day which causes it to grow and grow! With time the tiny plant grows taller than houses and it is so spectacular that the flower brings in visitors to come see its true beauty! Autumn comes back around and with time, and the changes of weather all over again, the huge flower that started as the tiny seed begins to lose its petals and eventually the flower's seed pod opens up and releases new tiny seeds that begin to soar in the air as that flower did before it planted itself and bloomed! And the cycle starts all over again! 

This story is SO cute. I love this story especially for an elementary classroom because children love learning about the outdoors. I could create such fun activities based upon this book because of the season of the year. There are different weather patterns during each season of the year and it is always fun to teach kids about the fun things such as flowers being planted and blooming during the Summer. This is just an awesome book to do as a read aloud to teach the students the seasons, and then creating hands-on activities after the lesson. This book makes me so excited to begin my teaching journey!