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Let’s Talk

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• About the feeling of boredom: We can ask our children when they feel bored and how. We can talk together about ways they can occupy their time.
• About Family relationships: The child helped their sibling after waking up from a nap. We can talk to our child and ask if they have ever helped their brother/sister and when and how it happened. How do they spend time together?
• About Preferred games: The knight, Sama, preferred a fantasy game. We can ask our child about their favorite games.

Let’s Create

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“Entertaining Ideas Box:” We can write suggestions for activities to do at home and in the garden on cards, collect them in a box, and when we feel bored, we can draw a card and engage in the activity.

Let’s Enrich our Language

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We can explain new vocabulary to our children, such as knight, hole, and similes like “as fast as the wind.” We can add other words from the story to our child’s linguistic dictionary.

Let’s Learn and Play

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We can recall childhood games with our children, building houses from pillows and blankets. We can role-play and exchange roles.

Let’s Communicate and Create

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We can go out with our children to explore our neighborhood, drawing a map inspired by the map in the book.

Let’s Talk

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• About Experiences: We can follow the journey of the dinosaur and his friend Jojo, engaging with children about the places he visited, his behavior, his feelings, and the risks he This is an opportunity for us to accompany them on their journey and learn from their experiences.
• About Desires: We can talk about the places the dinosaur might want to visit and the activities he might want to do. We should encourage our child to suggest other places from their own experiences and ask them about the places they want to visit and the things they want to do.
• Empowering the child and fostering a sense of capability and independence: We can discuss tasks our child can do on their own and those where they may need our assistance, along with their accompanying feelings. We can identify tasks or skills our child wants to learn, such as putting on shoes or making the bed, and support them in achieving those goals.

Let’s Have Fun and Play

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“Where did the items hide?”: Let’s play the game “Hot or Cold.” We can hide the items and let the child search for them. We can guide them with the word “hot” when they are close and “cold” when they move away.

Let’s Enrich our language

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We can enrich our child’s language and encourage them to describe what the dinosaur did during his visits to different places. We can use precise verbs and nouns, adding new qualities. For example, we might say, “a huge dinosaur, tall buildings…”

Let’s Create

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A growth chart: we can choose a wall in the house and mark the child’s height on it. We can select pictures of our child at different ages and stick them in a long album, creating a growth chart from sturdy cardboard and decorating it. We can discuss our child’s abilities at each stage from birth to today and talk about things they would like to develop.

Let’s Talk

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– About desires: The little owl understands what he likes, such as sledding, eating ice cream, and adding numbers. We can talk to our child about the things they like and want to do.

– About expressing feelings: The little owl tried various ways to get rid of the scarf. We can ask our child why he did that and suggest alternative ways to express dissatisfaction or displeasure to parents.

– About participating in decision-making and choices: The owl mother decided to involve her child in choosing the scarf he wants. We can talk to our children about situations where they participate in decision-making, such as choosing clothes, toys, household chores, and situations where they don’t participate in making choices. Ask them: How do you feel? How would you like us to act?

Let’s Communicate

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• – We can spend some quality time with our child on a nature walk or a trip to a nature reserve, like Al Hula Reserve, where we can learn about different bird species, especially during their migration season.- The owl mother knitted the scarf for her child. We can enjoy preparing a product with our child, like making an owl doll from old clothes.

Let’s Enrich our Language

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– The little owl accurately expressed his dislike for the scarf using appropriate adjectives. We can play a guessing game with our children, saying, for example, “I see something tall, green in color…” and let the child guess. We ensure the use of precise qualities for the item or thing that our child will understand.

Let’s Act Out and Create

Let’s talk to our child about situations where they feel frustration or anger. The scenario helps us think together about ways to alleviate their feelings and use appropriate social expressions.

Let’s Talk

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• About the sense of capability as children mimic the movements of various animals. We can talk to our child about tasks they can now accomplish that they couldn’t before. We can also boost their sense of capability by saying, “Yes, you can!”
• About Play: The book is interactive and encourages movement and play. We can talk with our child about the games they enjoy and introduce them to games we used to enjoy in our childhood.

Let’s Enrich our Language

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The book is rich with action verbs and body part names like arms, legs, feet, neck, etc. We can facilitate their use in our daily lives to describe body parts and movements, encouraging the child to describe their actions.

Let’s Explore

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We can explore different sources for information about the animals mentioned in the book: their types, food, and living habits. Also, we can enjoy watching a documentary with our child.

Let’s Create

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The book employs the well-known collage technique of the illustrator Eric Carle, creating a beautiful composition of cutouts, fabrics, newspapers, and household materials.

Let’s Play

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We can play the “Animal Yoga” game together, mimicking the movements of the various animals mentioned in the book, and adding other animals!