Seed to Sunflower is a great, bright, science text that shows a squence of how a sunflower forms. The pages are very bright and fun while teaching the reader about growing a sunflower. Although there are words teaching the student about the flower, the pictures could help figure out the cycle of a sunflower. I love that there are vocab words, like pollen, bolded throughout the book and have the definition at the back of the book.

I think this could be in any classroom library from Pre-K to 8th grade. The little students will love the pictures and the teachers can make mini lessons about sunflowers. For 2nd to 5th grade, the students can use the book to build a project of the life cycle during a science class. 6th through 8th grade can use this book with multiple other books to cite during a science essay about life cycles. I would keep this in my classroom for a fall mini science lesson with different "fall" plants, like pumpkins, to teach about life cycles about plants. ( )

As it is stated in the title, this book is about the life cycle of sunflowers. It describes the start from a farmer planting a seed and goes through the process as it germinates and sprouts. This is a good text to teach children that plants are not automatically part of the land. It also has a life cycle and goes through many steps. Occasionally, the book will include brief information on another type of plant which can be used to have children compare/contrast. As a guided reading book, it has many details, sequenced events/characteristic attributes, vocabulary, cause/effect, etc which is challenging to comprehend and read independently as a child, but can be used to work on with guidance. ( )

Seed to Sunflower, by Camilla de la Bedoyere, is a scientific text about the lifecycle of a sunflower, what seeds are used for, and what animals eat/ use sunflowers for energy. There is a page about different kinds of seeds, such as a redwood tree seed, whiich is a pine cone. I am planning on using this book with my ELL at Graceland; I think he will thoroughly enjoy reading about how seeds turn into sunflowers, and learn about what animals eat sunflowere seeds. I am planning on making a paper labeled "Step 1, Step 2, Step 3" and see if he can write a sentence and draw a picture, using the book for guidance, of the sunfower story. I am also planning on asking him questions like "What do sunflowers need to grow?" "What do the male and female parts of a sunflower look like?" "What animals drink nectar from the middle of a sunflower?" and "How are seeds spread?" I think this book will be helpful for my student to see the life cycle of a pant and how seeds give us new flowers to plant.