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Book-Related Family Activities
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Let’s Talk
- About Plot: We can observe the details of the illustrations, and encourage our child to describe them, follow the events, and make connections. We notice changes in the sea scene, the girl, and the birds, describing the girl’s feelings each time.
- About Personal experiences: Have we experienced similar feelings? How and when? We can recall our journeys, adventures, moments, and various experiences.
- About Seas and nature: What does the sea remind us of? Which seas have we visited? What other natural places do we know? We can compare them: how are they similar or different?
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Let’s Enrich our Language
- Description and comparison: We can describe the girl’s features and the feelings she expresses. We can compare them in each scene.
- Birds: We can pay attention to the birds in the drawings, think about their relationship with the girl, and learn about their characteristics and advantages.
- Names: We can suggest a name for the girl, think about our own names, who gave them to us? We try to remember the stories and meanings behind our names.
- Actions: We can observe the girl’s movements and name them. We can also perform similar actions.
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Let’s Explore
- Seas: we can visit a nearby sea, look at the sunset or sunrise, observe the waves, and enjoy the beach sand. We can look for scientific information: How are waves formed? What marine life lives in the sea and what distinguishes them?
- Nature: We can choose a natural place for a shared We can visit it, appreciate its details, listen to the sounds, get to know the creatures, describe and play together. We may search the internet and encyclopaedias for information about the place before or after the visit.
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Let’s Create
- Paintings of Nature: we can collect materials from nature during our outing and create paintings to decorate our home. (Paintings from seashells, mountain stones, or garden leaves).
- Our book: we can document our moments with pictures and compile them into a book for the story of our enjoyable journey. What do we want to add to it?
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The first time...
The first time we read the book, we can stop on the last page (16) and encourage our child to guess the source of the sound.
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We can take...
We can take a tour around the house, and listen to the sounds emanating from each room, and try to define it: is it a rattle, a tick, or a buzz? We can also listen to the voices outside: How do the sounds coming from outside differ from the ones inside?
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We can look...
We can look for objects at home with which we can make different sounds such as kitchen utensils, nylon bags, newspapers, and others. We can try to make sounds with the same object: does the sound of a pot differ, for example, if we knock on it with a wooden spoon or a metal spoon, if it is full of objects or empty?