فنون

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?

Dear Parents

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,Dear Parents

The child is born into a world teeming with uninterrupted sounds, such as the voices of people, the sounds of machines we have at home, and the voices of nature and its creatures.

The sounds that a child hears differ in their type, pitch, rhythm, volume, and tempo. The child’s little ears pick up the sounds around them with more interest than ours, which filter these sounds, so we no longer notice their existence.

Distinguishing a certain sound depends on our ability to hear it. Here, our role as parents is to draw our children’s attention to the sounds that surround them, like the chirping of birds, the sounds a passing truck makes, or the sound of the waterstream in the sink at home. We should also expose them to different kinds of rhythms and music and to musical instruments. This ability to listen and recognize sounds at an early age is very important for language learning.

guess the soun

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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.

listen

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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?

look for objects

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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?

sounds

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We may search with our child for other items in our near environment that complement the song of Zena, such as: brrring, brrring/…it rings. We may add new sounds that match the objects we find, and form a choir like Zena’s!

explore the sounds

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Our bodies are a great source of music! We can explore the sounds that we can make with our bodies, such as applauding, whistling, thumping feet, and others.

musical instruments

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We may wish to prepare with our child simple musical instruments from household items. Here are some of the ideas:

We surround a small box of milk with a number of- bands of different thickness, so we get a nice stringed instrument.

We can use rice or fava beans and chickpeas to make sounds from sealed cardboard cylinders.

We may wish to listen together with our family to calm melodies, or dance and sing together to the rhythm of fun and loud music.

!Enjoy your reading