The Amazing Tree 
To whom the cloud smiles? 
Grandma is Coming for a Visit 
Tiny perfect things 
My Grandma Doesn’t Hear Me 
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Let's talk...
About the child’s feelings: We can read the story with our children several times. We then follow the illustrations and discuss them as an expressive panel and talk about the feelings of both the child and the grandfather during their joint activities.
About the relationship with the grandfather: We can talk to our child about the things he loves about his grandfather and grandmother, and the things that sometimes bother him.
About family relationships: The book presents the child’s experience of spending enjoyable time with her grandfather. We can talk to our children about the shared activities that our children love to do with their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and extended family.
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Let's create...
Let’s prepare an album of the most beautiful moments with family members and relatives.
Let’s plan and create a house for our favourite pet with the help of grandparents.
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Let's communicate...
Let’s visit our grandparents and initiate a fun activity together, such as gardening, going for a nature walk, playing chess, and more.
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Let’s have a conversation...
About the title “For whom does the cloud smile?”: We can discuss the title with our child and ask them: For whom, according to you, does the cloud smile? And why?
About our child’s hobbies and interests: Amir likes to watch the weather. We can talk with our child and ask them: What are the things that they like to do?
About the behavior of the characters: Amir watched the two cats, the doll merchant, and the students hide from the rain. We can ask our child: What do they like to do when it rains? How do they behave?
About our relationship with our grandparents: Amir told his grandmother that he knew for whom the cloud smiled. What did he mean by that? How was his relationship with his grandmother? We can talk with our child about the things they would like to do with their grandparents.
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Let’s create and imagine...
Various shapes are formed from clouds: we can look at the clouds with our children and imagine what they could be.
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Let’s enrich our language...
We can enrich our child’s language and explain to them new words: flags, forehead, curled up – and make it easier for them to use in our everyday language so that they become part of their linguistic dictionary.
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Let’s explore...
Amir asked: “For whom does the cloud smile?” We can think about the environmental phenomena in our environment and encourage our children to formulate questions about them. We can also look for information with them.
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A question...
Where does rain come from? A question that leads us to search the Internet with our children.
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About the girl’s feelings...
About the girl’s feelings: We read the story with our children several times. We then follow the drawings and treat the drawings as an expressive painting, and we can talk about the feelings of the girl and the grandmother during their dialogue.
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My relationship...
My relationship with my grandparents: We can talk with our child about the things they love about their grandfather and grandmother, and the things that annoy them sometimes.
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Relationships with the family...
Relationships with the family: The book shows us the beautiful and warm shared time that the child spent with her grandmother. We can talk with our children about the common activities that they like to do with grandparents, uncles and extended family.
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We enrich...
We enrich our linguistic dictionary: Many animals with their different descriptions are mentioned in the book. We can keep track of the grandmother’s description of animals and add new traits and information about them.
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Grandma described...
Grandma described the animals to us in a humorous way. We can imagine new fantastical animals, and add funny events to the story; For example, we can imagine a two-legged snake, or a rabbit with a trunk. We can invite our children to let their imaginations run wild, as the grandmother did. We can try to draw those funny animals
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We can play...
We can play charades with our children. It is a game that allows them to develop their language and thinking by imagining, describing and expressing the characteristics of objects and animals.
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We can browse...
We can browse the family album, and together we can recall family experiences and occasions with grandparents.
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We invite our child...
We invite our child to think of his grandfather/grandmother. Does he/she resemble the grandmother mentioned in the book? What else distinguishes him/her?
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Each picture in...
Each picture in the book includes many small things that can catch our children’s attention while we read the book together. Encourage them to describe these drawings using sentences that begin with the phrase “I see…”
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We can chat...
We can chat with our child about an older person who they feel comfortable with and whose company they enjoy. S/he may be a member of the family or an outsider. What do they like to do with him/her?
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The girl’s picnic...
The girl’s picnic with her grandfather extends from morning to evening. Together, we can trace the elements in the pictures of the book that indicate the change of time in the story. What evening rituals do we do in our family to end the day?
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Our child may...
Our child may want to design a small bag, on which they will stick the phrase “my tiny perfect things.” Every time our family goes out for a walk in nature, our child can collect little things that intrigue their curiosity, and we can then chat about them with our child.
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Perhaps they want...
Perhaps they want to draw or photograph these things instead of collecting them, and prepare a small book in which they describe what they found.
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What do the lines...
What do the lines on tree leaves look like? We can collect leaves together and place a white paper on top of each one, then we can follow the lines with a colored pencil over the paper as we press hard, and the details of the leaves will then appear before our eyes!
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Grandmothers and grandfathers...
Grandmothers and grandfathers have a special place in most children’s lives. And the grandparents’ house has its unique smells, tastes, and distinct sights that inhabit the memory of children when they grow up. We can talk with our child about the things they love in their grandparents’ home or in the house of any other person who is close to the family and to our child. Is there a corner in the house that they favor? What do they like to do in their grandparents’ house?
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The grandmother in...
The grandmother in the story expresses her concern for her grandson in different ways. We can talk with our child about their interactions with their grandmother or grandfather and how they express their love to each other. For example, preparing a favorite dish, buying small gifts, or telling the grandchildren interesting stories. We can also talk about what we can do to express our concern for our grandmothers and grandfathers.
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Do you remember...
Do you remember the hilarious “broken phone” game? The family members sit in a circle, and one of them quickly whispers a word in their neighbor’s ear. The second has to whisper what they heard in the other neighbor’s ear…and so on, until the whispered word reaches the last person in the circle, just to discover that what they heard has nothing to do with the original word!
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We can test...
We can test various methods to enhance the delivery of sound to a far location, such as encircling the mouth with both hands, and ways to improve the hearing of sounds, such as tilting the outer ear forward. Are there other methods?
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Together, we can...
Together, we can design an amplifier from household items, such as: a cardboard tube, metal foil, or paper cups. We can test a number of amplifiers from different materials and compare them: which sounds best?
