التمييز والتصنيف

About the book

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Dear Parents, 

In this book, ten little ducklings want to play, so they head together to different places—the pond, a hot-air balloon, a birthday party, and more. At every stop, the ducklings discover a new world, and each one enjoys the experience in their own special way. Despite their different personalities and preferences, they are united by joy, play, and shared adventures. 

This book invites children to explore new environments, embrace diversity and differences among friends, and express themselves through their unique styles of play and enjoyment. The story also engages the child directly in the fun: on each page, they are invited to search for a duckling showing a distinctive behavior and, once they find it, to cheer, “I found you, little Duckling!”—letting them experience the joy of discovery just like the ducklings in their adventures. 

The book supports early quantitative thinking skills such as counting and understanding order. It strengthens listening comprehension through following simple instructions, develops visual-analysis skills, and enhances phonological awareness through rhyme and rhythm—encouraging children to enter the world of books with delight. 

About feelings and ways of enjoying

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Let’s Talk 

About feelings and ways of enjoying 

Ask your child: “What did you think of the ducklings’ day? Did they enjoy themselves? How do you know?”

Beyond joy and playful enjoyment, you can expand the conversation to include other feelings that may accompany fun, such as tiredness or slight irritation.

For example: Rashrash seems happy but sleepy. Rabee‘ is enjoying himself but looks a little annoyed. 

About the characters 

Re-read the story and choose one duckling from the name page each time.

Follow that duckling in every scene: What is it doing? How does it feel?

Would your child like to be in its place? Why or why not? 

Describe the different ducklings based on their actions or appearance

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Let’s Enrich Our Language 

Look closely at the illustrations and describe the different ducklings based on their actions or appearance. 

Each page takes the ducklings to a new, activity-filled place. These may remind your child of adventures

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Let’s Express Ourselves 

Each page takes the ducklings to a new, activity-filled place. These may remind your child of adventures they’ve already had—or inspire you to plan new ones.

Choose a place together and plan a family outing. Encourage your child to describe the activities they would enjoy doing there. 

Explore different environments through the illustrations

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Let’s Learn 

Explore different environments through the illustrations and ask your child:

What do we wear when we go to the snow? What do we take with us to the beach? 

Ask counting and sorting questions

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Let’s Develop Thinking Skills 

Practice counting from 1 to 10 using the ducklings.

Ask counting and sorting questions, for example:

How many ducklings are in the pond? How many are wearing red helmets? 

Hide ten small ducks around the house and ask your child to find them

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Let’s Play 

• Hide ten small ducks around the house and ask your child to find them. 

Choose family pictures that capture joyful moments, adventures, and places you’ve visited together. 

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Let’s Create 

Choose family pictures that capture joyful moments, adventures, and places you’ve visited together.

Collect them into a photo album, browse it together, and talk about these experiences and the happiness they brought. 

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!

Let’s talk...

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About feelings: The cat hid in different place every time. If you were the cat, where would you hide? Who would you like to search for you? Who would you like to find you?

About passion and love of knowledge: Our encounter with living creatures in the book can be interesting and can excite us. Together with our children, we can imagine that we met the cat. What do we like to know about it? What do we like to ask it?

About our favourite games: We can share the games we enjoyed in our childhood with our children, and we can also play with them.

Let’s create...

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The book employs the collage technique by using sewing. We can make a special book for our child, using fabrics, buttons, and old clothes. Together, we can choose the animal we want to hide.

Let’s learn and have fun...

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We can browse through the book, counting the animals on each page with our children. We can also allow the child to count independently.

Let’s enrich our language...

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The book is rich in vocabulary and linguistic concepts, such as: runs; creeps; tub; enormous. We can explain them to our children while reading, and we can talk about them afterwards as well so we can use them in our everyday life.

Let’s have fun and play together...

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We can enjoy the company of children by searching for the orange cat.

The game of hide-and-seek is presented in the book. We can play it with our kids at home.

Let’s explore...

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Unfamiliar animals in our nearby environment appeared in the book, such as a deer, a dolphin and a crab. We can learn about living creatures, and with our children, we can search for information about them. We can classify them into the following: sea creatures; insects; birds; Predators; Pets.