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Let’s Talk

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• About the title: We can ask the children what is meant by “nothing” in the gift box?
• About the meaning and value of the gift: We can talk about the meaning of the gift, asking our children: Why do you think the cat wanted to give the dog a gift? Is it important for us to give each other gifts? How do we feel when we receive a gift?
• About ways of expressing love: The gift is often a way of expressing love. We can ask our children: How can we express our feelings, such as love, appreciation, and concern for friends and family in ways other than giving material gifts?
• About Drawings: The drawings in this book have a “comic” style. We can explore with our children where this style is used to convey information or tell a story (such as advertisements, children’s magazines, etc.).

Let's Create

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We can think about a special person in the child’s life whose birthday is coming up, and we can prepare a special gift for them, such as a photo album of beautiful moments spent together, a photo frame, a card expressing our love, creatively wrapped.

Let’s Enrich our Language

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“Nothing” is a commonly used term in our colloquial language, as in the story, and is often used metaphorically. We can follow different situations in the story, replacing the term “nothing” with a detailed sentence expressing the situation, and encourage our children to express themselves.

نتحاور

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نتحاوَر حول:

الهدايا: لماذا نتبادل الهدايا؟ وما المعاني والقيَم التي تعبّر عنها؟ أيّة هدايا نحبّ أن نتلقّى؟ أن نقدّم؟ لمَن؟ ما الفرق بين الهدايا المادّيّة والمعنويّة؟ قد تكون الهديّة كلمةً طيّبةً/ تشجيعيّة/ نظرةً دافئةً/ مساعدةً نقدّمها، ماذا أيضًا؟

ذكرى الميلاد: كيف نشعر في ذكرى ميلادنا؟ ما المفاجآت التي تجعل من هذا اليوم مميَّزًا. نستمع إلى خبرات الأطفال.

الصّداقة: مَن هم أصدقاؤنا؟ ماذا نحبّ أن نفعل معهم؟ نشارك بخبراتنا الذاتيّة. نستذكر هدايا معنويّة تبادلنا مع أصدقائنا (هل لعبنا معًا؟/ ساعدَ أحدنا الآخر/ كيف نشعر بمشاركة الأصدقاء ووجودهم؟).

شخصيّات القصّة: من هما وديع ونبيل؟ نتحاور حول احتياجات الكلب والقطّ والإنسان، بماذا تختلف؟

At the end of the story, the smile returns to Augustus’ face. Let us imagine that the story continues, and that his smile widens and turns into a loud laugh. What could make him laugh?...

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• At the end of the story, the smile returns to Augustus’ face. Let us imagine that the story continues, and that his smile widens and turns into a loud laugh. What could make him laugh?

of the story, the smile returns to Augustus’ face. Let us imagine that the story continues, and that his smile widens and turns into a loud laugh. What could make him laugh?

What makes us...

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What makes us happy? What makes our child happy? With our child, we can prepare small cards with a little smile on them and others with a big smile on them. We can then draw what makes us a little happy and what makes us laugh on each card. We can group the cards together, and add others with drawings of sad, angry and surprised faces to them. We might want to collect them in a beautiful book that might be titled “This is How I Feel.”

We can go...

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We can go out together to play, explore, and have fun in nature. We may climb a small hill or make a stick out of fallen branches that helps us to walk or jump on the dry leaves and listen to its rattling.

“Then Augustus understood...

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“Then Augustus understood that his smile appears on his face when he is happy.” How else do we express our joy? We can play a game called “Mirror of Joy,” where we stand facing our child and make a movement in our face or body that expresses joy that the child must imitate, and vice versa.

Augustus’ smile slowly...

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Augustus’ smile slowly returns to his mouth, and his tail also rises to express his joy. We can observe how other animals in our home and environment express their happiness.

Let’s make our...

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Let’s make our family members laugh! We can all sit in a circle, and the first participant has to say “ha ha” seriously, followed by the second participant who says “ha ha,” and so on. The participant who laughs first must devise a way for the other participants to laugh.

Books by the...

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Books by the author and illustrator, Catherine Rayner, “are full of drawings of animals that she loves so much. It is exciting to see what Augustus looks like when we draw him after he loses his smile, and then again when he finds it.”