One Child, One Seed: A South African Counting Book

This is an amazing book that I enjoyed from beginning to end. One child, one seed is about a young girl, Nothando, who takes the reader on a journey through her village in a district called Nkandla. The reader learns about the many people, hands, friends, and family that is involved with the planting of one seed. The reader becomes engulfed in the life of the South African people. The author purposely incorporates the details in all the hard work that is necessary in South Africa to just plant one seed, things most of us would take for granted. It is important for the reader to understand what hard work really is, and how people in other countries are not familiar with the idea of waste, all the while learning how to count using visuals.

"Nothando, a young girl who lives in Nkandla South Africa, helps her family grow pumpkins. The story is presented in the form of a simple counting game. Includes information about life on a homestead in Nkandla and a recipe for isiningi, a South African dish made from pumpkins."

in this mulitcultural book, it explains how the life of a young Aftican child is like. It tells a little story using numbers, but it also gives real information about Nothando's African family. It shows a picture of his house, and it tells how his house was built. Throughout the story, it explains the process that Nothando and his family goes through to produce a garden. Every animal on their homested has their own duty, or job to do. Each person in the family has his/her own job. Their dinner consisted of the veggies that they get from their garden, and they only get one meal a day. Games that they played consist of things they find around their homested: sticks and stones. I learned many interesting facts about the South Afican show more culture that I never even heard of. I really enjoyed reading this story because it gave me a bigger view on what other peoples lives are like, and how they are different than what we have. In the classroom, I could use this story for a lesson over South Africa or use it for a math lesson over recognizing numbers. The book uses math numbers to describe different things they have at their home. This would be a good story to use with first graders in both lessons. show less