SEEDS Activity Pages
ReadingPals S.E.E.D.S. Packets (Links to books on YouTube and Activity Sheets)
Book 1: From Head to Toe
By Eric Carle
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Vocabulary cards. No purchased materials.
Students will learn about body parts. They will need to identify body parts and demonstrate how to move those parts.
Book 2: What is Round?
By Rebecca Kai Dotlich
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Vocabulary cards. 1 packet of large buttons and 1 lunch bag.
Students will need to identify round and non-round objects, as well as, identify colors. Children will be asked to identify objects of the same color or shape. Example: fire trucks and apples are both red OR the lollipops and marbles are both round.
Book 3: Ten Black Dots
By Donald Crews
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Vocabulary and Number cards. 1 set of magnetic numbers.
Students will be assisted in counting dots from 1-10 and identifying numbers.
Book 4: Mouse Paint
By Ellen Walsh
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Vocabulary Word cards. Colored bean bags are the purchased materials.
Students will need to identify the colors, red, blue, yellow, orange, green and purple. They will also learn
What color is created when mixing two different colors? They will need to make up a full sentence describing a color.
Book 5: Dr. Seuss’s ABC
By Dr. Seuss
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Vocabulary Word cards. Alphabet Page, 1 lunch bag and Upper and Lower Case Letters.
Students will need to recognize the difference between upper and lower case letters. They will need to identify what “alphabet” means, as well as, identify individual letters.
Book 6: The Surprise Garden
By Zoe Hall
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Vocabulary Word Cards, Stages of Growth, No purchased materials.
Students will need to identify and describe vegetables. Lead a group discussion about the 4 stages of growth.
Book 7: My Five Senses
By Aliki
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Vocabulary Word Cards. No purchased materials.
Identify the 5 senses and what body parts of used for those senses. Students will need to identify a touch and sound experience. The students will need to use a vocabulary word in a sentence.
Book 8: How Do You Know It’s Fall?
By Allan Fowler
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Vocabulary Word Cards and Shape Color Leaf. No purchased materials.
Students will identify the colors and the shapes located on the leaf cut-outs. Lead a group discussion on the weather and harvest during the fall. Talk about Thanksgiving dinner.
Book 9: Eric Carle’s Opposites
By Eric Carle
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Vocabulary Word Cards. No purchased materials.
Point to and say opposite words. Be prepared to locate small objects in the room for Session 1, Activity
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Book 10: The Cat In The Hat
By Dr. Seuss
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Vocabulary Word Cards and a Box of Jumbo Crayons.
Students will learn rhyming words. Students will choose the colored crayons in a rhyming game.
Book 11: Friends at School
By Rochelle Bunnett
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Vocabulary Word Cards. No purchased materials.
Students will need to identify and name their school friends. Teach the children to sign “I love you.” Engage the children in a group discussion of what it means to be a friend.
Book 12: Mouse Shapes
By Ellen Stoll Walsh
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Vocabulary Word Cards, Foam Shapes and 6 Legal Sized Envelopes.
Students will identify shapes. Identify colors. Make objects with the foam shapes.
Book 13: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
By Eric Carle
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Vocabulary Word Cards, Lap Size Chalkboards, Chalk and Erasers.
Students will identify animals and where they live, land, air or water. Students will need to make up sentences that identifies an animal, its color and where it lives. They will also draw animals and write where they live on the chalkboards.
Book 14: Mouse Mess
By Linnea Riley
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Vocabulary Word Cards, Rhyming Word Cards. No purchased materials.
Students will identify and make sounds of letters. Rhyming activities will be completed. They will also make up a story.
Book 15: Buzz Said The Bee
By Wendy Cheyette Lewison
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Vocabulary Word Cards, Rhyming Word Cards and Lower Case Letters.
Students will rhyme, identify animals and animal noises. Letter recognition.
Book 16: The Jacket I Wear In The Snow
By Shirley Neitzel
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Vocabulary Word Cards, Building a Snowman, Snowman Clothes, Lap Sized Chalk Boards, Chalk and Erasers.
Students will build a snowman, draw a snowman and write words and letters on the chalk boards. Identify cold weather clothing and what body part it covers.
Book 17: Here Are My Hands
By Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
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Vocabulary Word Cards. No purchased materials.
Students will identify body parts and list what you do with those parts.
Book 18 –The Earth Book
By Todd Parr
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Vocabulary Word Cards. 3 Lap-Sized Chalkboards, Chalk and Chalk Eraser.
Students will learn the meaning of reusing and recycling.
Book 19: White Rabbit’s Color Book
By Alan Baker
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Vocabulary Word Cards, Rabbit Picture and 1 Lunch Bag.
Students identify colors, participate in rhyming activities and identify the first letter of vocabulary words.
Book 20: My Friend Bear
By Jez Alborough
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Vocabulary Word Cards, 1 Bear Note Pad and 3 Pencils (pencil bag and sharpener included).
Students will write their names on the note pads. Rhyming activities and identifying sounds with the letter “b.”
Book 21: Deep Blue Sea
By Audrey Wood
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Vocabulary Word Cards and Fishing Game.
Students will identify colors, shapes and sea creatures. Identify words on the vocabulary cards and take turns describing them, as well as, identify same letter sounds.
Book 22: The Alphabet With Wild Animals
By Mélanie Watt
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Vocabulary Word Cards. No purchased materials.
Students will identify animals and letter sounds. Counting syllables.
Book 23: From The Garden
By Michael Dahl
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Vocabulary Word Cards. No purchased materials.
Students identify vegetables, numbers and participate in counting activities.
Book 24: The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, And The Big Hungry Bear
By Don and Audrey Wood
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Vocabulary Word Cards and magnetic game.
Students follow oral directions, identify animals and participate in a clapping out syllable activities.
Book 25: The Enormous Potato
Retold by Audrey Davis
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Vocabulary Word Cards and Rhyming Word Cards. No purchased materials.
Students will identify letters from the book and participate in rhyming activities. Students will come up with an alternate ending to the book.
Book 26: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle
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Vocabulary Word Cards, 1 Lunch Bag and Lower Case Letters.
Students will rhyme and assist with spelling “butterfly.” Identify food and its color.
Book 27: Transportation
By Clare Beaton
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Vocabulary Word Cards. No purchased materials.
Students learn English and Spanish words. Identify which vehicles are used for land, air or water. Spell words verbally.
Book 28: A Color Of His Own
By Leo Lionni
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Vocabulary Word Cards, Chameleon Pictures, Construction Paper and Crayons.
Students identify colors, identify like colored objects, identify words and tell the name of the first letter of that word. Drawing activities.
Book 29: Farm Alphabet Book
By Jane Miller
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Vocabulary Word Cards, Farm Animals Pictures and Lower Case Letters.
Students identify letters, farm animals and produce. Syllable clapping activities are included.