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One Watermelon Seed

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If you teach kindergarten and you plant seeds with your class, then this is a book for you! Two children, one boy and one girl, plant a garden. They begin by planting one watermelon seed. They continue planting, two seeds, then three, all the way to ten. For each number, a different kind of seed is planted. When they examine the fruits of their labor, they find their yeild is ten times what they originally planted! This is a great book to reinforce counting by tens. Some of the vegetables are actually grouped into noticeable groups of ten. Color words and other adjectives are used to describe every fruit or vegetable in their harvest. This book is filled with concepts that are introduced in kindergarten and a great addition to my classroom library!

First published in 1986, One Watermelon Seed is a children's counting book that teaches young people about the numbers one through ten - followed by the numbers ten through one hundred! Two children Max and Josephine count the many seeds, plants, and harvested crops in their garden; their efforts are brought to brilliant life with vibrant color illustrations and easy-to-follow text. Each two-page spread perfectly illustrates the number being taught in this wonderful staple children's book, especially recommended for public library collections.

This book combines a story with counting first 1,2,3 and then 10,20, 30...100. It shows how one watermelon seed can become many. My son was eating watermelons and was very careful to save the seed so he could get more watermelons next summer like in the book. He also marveled about how many seeds it took to make a bowl of popcorn. This book is so simple and yet really has a big concept of quantity and counting and so much more. A great summer bedtime read after a barbecue or before starting your family garden.