المبادرة

Let’s Talk

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• About problem-solving: We can ask our children about the problems the animals faced, how they behaved, how the problem escalated, and how they found a solution.
• About feelings and thoughts: We can trace the drawings, describing the characters’ emotions and actions in different situations. We can give “qualities” to each character.
• About Cooperation and confidence: With our children, we can recall some family and school challenges that everyone successfully overcame as a group, emphasizing the importance of each person’s role. We discuss with our children their roles in overcoming these challenges.

Let’s Explore and Initiate

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We contemplate; we can search for and present problems in our neighbourhoods and towns, such as garbage issues, and brainstorm ways to address them.

Let’s Act

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We can act out situations where our child may face individual or group problems and discuss ways to cope with them, such as a disagreement with a friend, losing a game, a student getting injured on a school trip, or facing bullying from an individual or a group.

Let’s Create

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With our child, we can prepare an “I Can Jar:” Together, we can write phrases on paper scraps describing things we can do together that benefit us and others. We can identify a positive change we want to make, for example: “I can say no to bullying,” “I can help a friend in need,”

Let’s Talk

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• About Feelings: we can read the story with our children and talk about “Tala” and “Fadi’s” feelings from the beginning to the end. We can ask our children: How did they feel and how did these feelings change?
• About New Beginnings: we can share our feelings about new beginnings with our children, such as the first day of school or joining a new club. We can ask our children about their feelings in new beginnings: what makes them feel secure, and what helps them overcome feelings of fear or dread. We can remind them of situations where they adapted successfully.
• About Friendship: “Tala” was able to form a friendship with “” We can follow the text and illustrations with our children and ask them how that friendship formed, what they did together, and how friendships are made. We can also ask our children who their friends are and what they like to do with them.

Let’s Play and Work Together

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We can initiate a fun and shared activity, such as recalling things we love to do together, like going on a family picnic, reading a book, or preparing a favorite dessert and more. We can try to allocate time during the week to enjoy an activity or more with our child.

Let’s Explore

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We can explore and learn about pets and how we can take care of them at home, and about the relationships that form between the animal and its owner.

Let’s Communicate

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We can invite one of our child’s friends to visit our home or participate in a shared activity, like a park trip, to strengthen social relationships and support them in building friendships.

Let’s talk...

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About feelings: We can follow the children in the book and talk about the different feelings they expressed. We can talk about feelings of pride, empathy, a sense of achievement and empowerment. We can enrich our child’s vocabulary so that they can be aware of their feelings and express them better, while connecting how they behaved with how they felt.

Let’s talk...

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About the child’s abilities and roles: With our child, we can recall an experience they went through in the family or at school, in which they expressed an opinion or position, by using words or by actions. How did they feel, and what did they learn from this experience?

Let’s talk...

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About ways of expression: The book highlights several ways of expressing oneself through speech, actions, and creativity. We can track these methods, describe them, and discuss the ways our children express themselves, while giving examples from their daily life. We can also discuss the importance of making our voice heard and expressing ourselves by speaking up.

Let’s search and be initiative...

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With our child, we can search on the Internet for children who made their voice and opinion heard on an issue that concerns them, such as the Swedish girl Greta Thunberg, who led a protest around the world in defence of the environment.

We can look...

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We can look for organizations and institutions that provide different services, then we can contact them, get to know their work, and volunteer for them.

We can search...We can read together the phrases on pages 2 and 3 and invite our child to write phrases in the empty bubbles at the end of the text to express methods that they think are important to make the world a better place.

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We can search and talk about things that need improvement in the country or neighbourhood in which we live. We can choose one cause, and we can volunteer with our children or family to improve it.

We can read...

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We can read together the phrases on pages 2 and 3 and invite our child to write phrases in the empty bubbles at the end of the text to express methods that they think are important to make the world a better place.