مفاهيم ومهارات

Let's Talk

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• About Pet care at home: Why is it important for the child? Who takes care of it, and how?
• About The feelings of the child in different situations before and after Zaatar’s disappearance. What do her drawings tell us about her feelings?
• About Asking for help: When and whom do we turn to for help? Let’s remember situations where we supported our child.
• About Friendship: Zaatar is Dan’s friend. Who are our friends and what do we like to do with them?

Let’s Enrich our language

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• We can suggest suitable names for a pet we want to raise. Why did we choose these names?
• We can imitate the sounds of animals we know and learn their names like the meow of the cat and the bark of the dog, among others.

Let's play and have fun

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• We can enjoy playing group games with our child, such as Blind Man’s Bluff, and the “Hot and Cold” game.
• Treasure hunt: We can hide an object in one of the places in the house and give our child clues about the location, for example: there are plates and spoons there. We develop the child’s ability to describe by suggesting the use of different words, such as: above, inside, and describing objects and places. We then switch roles.
• Let’s have fun together with role-playing games, such as: I’m the customer and you’re the seller, or the father and the child, and others.

Let's Create

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• We can prepare a comfortable and warm place for the household pet or neighborhood cats with our child.
• We can allocate a place with our child to feed the neighbourhood cats. What food do we provide? Who do we share with from the neighbourhood?

Let's explore

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We can search for information about animals we want to learn about, and we can also spend an enjoyable day visiting the zoo.

Let’s Talk

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• 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?

Let’s Enrich our Language

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• 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.

Let’s Play

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The book stands out as the illustrations tell the story without words. Let’s play “Pictionary.” We can agree on signals that indicate things and guess them through movements.

Let’s Explore

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• 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.

Let’s Create

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• 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?

Let’s Talk

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• During the first reading, we participate with our child as we follow instructions together. This helps our little one to understand actions through our embodiment and imitation.
• About emotions: we can ask our child how they felt when we read the book and played together, and which books they love and prefer.
• About playing together: we can ask our children which activities and games they like to play together.

Let’s Create

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Children learn the art of pointillism and create paintings using this technique. We can use felt-tip pens, cotton swabs, and paint.

Let’s Enrich our Language

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• The book is rich in vocabulary and linguistic concepts, touching, pressing, softening, illuminating, and more. We can explain these to our children during reading and use them in daily life.
• We can recall encouraging words from the text and try to use them in our daily lives.

Let’s Play and Have Fun Together

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We can play “The King Says:” participants must follow the instructions preceded by the phrase “The King Says.” For example, if we say, “The King says jump to the right,” we jump together. If we say “Jump to the right” only, we don’t jump. We can take turns as a

Let’s Explore

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The book presents the art of color blending and mixing. We can mix colors together and learn about new colors.

The first time...

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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.

We can take...

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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?

We can look...

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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?