Description
Bring literacy, math, and hands-on learning together with this comprehensive Tiny Seed Book Companion designed to pair perfectly with The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. This resource is packed with engaging activities, craft projects, sequencing practice, writing pages, literacy centers, and math printables that make planning simple and meaningful for preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade classrooms.
With over 180 pages of printable activities, your students will explore vocabulary, retell the story, practice sequencing, strengthen writing skills, and build foundational math and phonics skills, all through the engaging theme of The Tiny Seed.
What’s Inside?
✅ Fun Crafts – Create an adorable flower craft and bulletin board display that reinforces writing and comprehension.
✅ Sequencing Activities – Multiple ways to retell and sequence the story, including sequencing cards, story wheel, and sequencing printables.
✅ Printable Story Hat – Color, cut, and glue the story sequence onto a Tiny Seed hat. Learning is always more fun with a hat.
✅ Directed Drawings – Step-by-step flower drawing with writing extension.
✅ No-Prep Printables – Print and go literacy, writing, phonics, and math worksheets.
✅ Centers & Stations – Hands-on CVC word centers, addition clip cards, puzzles, number matching, and more.
Peek Inside More:
Literacy & Comprehension
- Word Wall / Word Bank vocabulary cards (color and black & white)
- Story sequencing printables
- Story wheel (color and black & white versions)
- Sequencing cards with and without text (multiple sizes and formats)
- Read and Respond Printables for Setting, Problem, Character, and so much more
- Sentence writing pages with picture prompts
- Story retell cards with and without words
- A variety of literacy and math printables to practice the alphabet, CVC words, Digraphs, CVCe words, counting, addition, subtraction, numbers to 100, and so much more!
Writing Activities
- Multiple writing pages
- Sentence writing practice
- Vocabulary-based story writing
- Bulletin board writing craft
- Directed drawing with writing extension
Craft & Hands-On Projects
- Printable sequencing hat (color, cut, glue story events)
- Bulletin board flower craft with writing option
- Directed drawing: How to Draw the Tiny Seed scene
Phonics & Word Work
- CVC words, digraphs, and CVCe
- Real vs. nonsense word sort
- Picture puzzles (match word to picture) center
- Letter formation practice
Math Activities
- Addition worksheets
- Subtraction worksheets
- Clip-card addition center
- Counting pages
- Base 10 counting
- Hundred chart (multiple versions)
- Missing hundred charts
- Hundred chart hunt
- Flower pot number matching
- Color-by-code math pages
Why Teachers Love This Tiny Seed Resource
This book companion makes it easy to:
- Integrate literacy and math into one engaging theme
- Teach sequencing in a hands-on, meaningful way
- Reinforce story structure and comprehension
- Support emerging writers with differentiated writing pages
- Build phonics skills through CVC, CVCe, and digraph practice
- Practice addition, subtraction, counting, and number sense
- Create eye-catching bulletin board displays
- Provide independent center activities
Everything is designed with young learners in mind — clear visuals, simple directions, and developmentally appropriate activities.
Why You’ll Love It
Saves You Time – No more searching for spring activities. Everything you need for your Tiny Seed unit is organized and ready to print.
Engages Your Students – Hands-on sequencing, writing, craft, and center activities keep students actively involved.
Covers Multiple Skills – Literacy, sequencing, writing, phonics, addition, subtraction, counting, and number sense all in one resource.
Differentiated Writing Options – Multiple writing page formats support preschool, kindergarten, and first grade learners.
Perfect for a Variety of Classroom – Use for whole group read-aloud extensions, small groups, literacy centers, math centers, independent work, or sub plans.
Ideas for How to Use This in Your Classroom:
Preschool
- Use vocabulary cards for oral language development
- Complete the sequencing hat as a whole-group retell
- Practice counting, number matching, and simple addition
- Use directed drawing for fine motor development
Kindergarten
- Focus on story sequencing and retelling cards
- Use sentence writing pages for guided writing
- Incorporate phonics centers and word searches
- Practice addition and subtraction within 10
- Complete the flower craft with a writing response
First Grade
- Use full story sequencing cards for detailed retelling
- Assign write-a-story pages using vocabulary words
- Practice CVCe and digraph activities
- Work on independent addition and subtraction
- Use hundreds charts and base 10 activities for number sense
Skills Covered
- Sequencing and retelling
- Story elements and comprehension
- Vocabulary development
- Sentence writing and story writing
- Phonics (CVC, CVCe, digraphs)
- Letter formation
- Addition and subtraction within 10
- Counting and number sense
- Hundreds chart skills
- Fine motor and craft skills
Perfect For
- Spring literacy units
- Plant life cycle units
- Eric Carle author studies
- Whole group read aloud follow-up
- Literacy centers
- Math centers
- Sub plans
Reasons to Add This to Your Lesson Plans:
- Over 180 printable pages in one download
- Combines literacy, writing, math, and craft
- Multiple formats of sequencing activities
- Differentiated writing pages for varied ability levels
- Low-prep print-and-go pages
- Engaging hands-on learning students love
This Tiny Seed companion saves you planning time while keeping your students actively engaged in meaningful learning.
Grab Your Copy Today
Don’t let this Tiny Seed resource blow away in the wind. Add it to your cart now to bring sequencing, writing, and hands-on learning to life in your classroom this spring.
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