The girls in Africa enjoy a jumping game called “Ampe.” The boys enjoy playing soccer. All of the children enjoy skipping rope, playing hopscotch, and going down the slide. The children have fun playing with toy cars and with marbles. They love to play hide-and-seek and checkers, but most of all they love see-saws. They like to play in the rain and find insects and bugs in the grass. The children love hearing stories and using their imaginations. Some of the girls enjoy stringing beads to create necklaces and earrings for themselves and their dolls. The kids like to play instruments, draw, cook, and ride bikes. They like playing in the ocean and joining in on festival days. They fly kites, fish, and create things out of clay. They also enjoy blowing bubbles and being in parades.
I would use this book to help the students relate their own personal lives to the lives of the children living in Africa. I would read the book aloud to the class and ask the students to write down the things they hear about that they also enjoy doing. For example, when I would read the pages about drawing, they would write down drawing if they also like to draw. At the end of the read aloud, I would ask the students to share the activities that they have written down to show them how similar their lives are to the children who live on a completely different continent. I would then ask them to point out some of the differences between the ways they play games compared to the ways the children in Africa play games. For example, in Africa, the children use cups and marbles to play checkers and call it “Oware.” Through exploring the similarities and differences between playtime in America and Playtime in Africa, the students can relate to the text and find similarities between their own lives and the lives of children in Africa.
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