الطبيعة والبيئة

نتحادث

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قبل فتح الباب: نطلب من الطفل أن يحزر من خلف الباب حسب اللون أو الصورة. نطرق الباب ونفتحه معًا، ثمّ نتأمّل الرسمة ونسأل طفلنا: من خلف الباب؟ ماذا يفعلون؟ نسمّي الشخصيّات والأغراض وما تفعله.

حول المشاعر: نتحدّث مع الطفل عن مشاعر الشخصيّات. مثلاً، يمكن أن نسأله: كيف شعر الأرنب عندما أكل الجزرة؟

حول الرغبات: نسأل طفلنا عن اللون الذي يحبّه، ونبحث معه عن أغراض له نفس اللون.

نثري لغتنا

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نستكشف معاني أفعالٍ وردت في الكتاب، مثل: يقرع، يقضم، تفرك، ثم نمثلّها معًا. من الهامّ أن نستخدم هذه الكلمات مع طفلنا في حياتنا اليومية.

نوسّع معارفنا

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الألوان: نختار مع طفلنا لونًا من ألوان الأبواب، ونبحث في الغرفة عن أشياء لها نفس اللون ونسمّيها.

نعدّ معًا: نمسك بإصبع طفلنا ونتتبّع الحيوانات في الصفحة ونعدّها. قد نسأله: كم أرنبًا ترى؟ كم قردًا؟ ثمّ كم إصبعًا في كفّة يدك؟ كم عينًا لك؟

نلعب

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نقلّد أصوات الحيوانات الظاهرة في الكتاب مثل القرود، أو الأشياء مثل الطبل. نصغي إلى الأصوات المختلفة حولنا، سواء في البيت أو خارجه، نسمّيها ونقلّدها.

حول الكتاب

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المربّية العزيزة،

اللقاء الأوّل بين الطفل والكتاب هو خطوة أساسية في تعزيز حبّ الكتاب والقراءة. قبل البدء بسرد القصة، من المهم إتاحة الفرصة للأطفال للتعرف على الكتاب: النظر إلى الغلاف، تصفح الصفحات، والتفاعل مع الصور. هذه المرحلة تساعدهم على تكوين تصورات أولية عمّا سيكتشفونه، ممّا يعزّز انتباههم واستعدادهم للاستماع.

يأخذنا هذا الكتاب في رحلة تفاعلية ممتعة مع الأطفال، حيث يعرّفهم على مفاهيم أساسيّة مثل اللون والعدد، معزِّزًا استيعابهم لها من خلال تفعيل حواسهم المختلفة، مثل: النظر، السمع، واللمس. ويعتمد على لغة بسيطة وسليمة تسهِّل الفهم. إضافةً إلى ذلك، يُثري القاموس اللغوي للأطفال عبر تعريفهم بأسماء الحيوانات، الأدوات، والأفعال الواردة في القصّة، مما يوسّع مفرداتهم ويعمّق معرفتهم بالعالم من حولهم.

نستقبل الكتاب

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نستقبل الكتاب معًا:

ضعي صندوق الكتب في وسط الغرفة، واعرضي الكتاب أمام الأطفال، افتحيه وأغلقيه لتوضيح طريقة استخدامه. بعد ذلك، وزّعي الكتب على الأطفال.

نتصفّح الكتاب –  

يحتاج الأطفال إلى وقت لاستكشاف الكتاب والتعرف عليه، عن طريق لمسه وتقليبه. دعي الأطفال يلمسون الكتاب، يتصفّحون صفحاته، وينظرون إلى كتب زملائهم. يمكنك طرح أسئلة مثل: “ما هذا؟ ماذا يوجد بالداخل؟”

نقرأ معًا –

نقرأ الكتاب في مجموعات صغيرة في مكان هادئ، ونستمع إلى أغنيته، ثم نعيد القراءة والاستماع مرات عديدة. يساعد تكرار القصة على تعزيز تفاعل الأطفال معها، وترقّبهم للكلمات والصور المألوفة، ممّا يمنحهم شعورًا بالأمان ويعمّق تعلّمهم.

نتحادث

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قبل فتح الباب، نطلب من الطفل أن يحزر من خلف الباب حسب اللون أو الصورة. نطرق الباب ونفتحه معًا، ثمّ نتأمّل الرسمة ونسأل الأطفال: من خلف الباب؟ ماذا يفعلون؟ كيف يشعرون؟ نسمّي الأغراض والشخصيّات، وأفعالها ومشاعرها.

موسيقى

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موسيقى:

نستمع إلى أغنية الكتاب من خلال مسح الباركود في الغلاف الخلفي للكتاب. وفي كلّ مرّة نتوقّف عند جملة “ندقّ الباب”، وندقّ مع الأطفال على صندوق أو أي سطح قريب، أوّلًا باستخدام اليد، ثم الكوع، ثم القدم. هذا يساعدهم على التفاعل والتعرّف على أجزاء جسمهم، واستكشاف الأصوات المختلفة التي يمكنهم صنعها.

الوعي النغمي

ندقّ كل مرة بإيقاع مختلف: سريع أو بطيء، أو بعدد دقّات مختلف: ندقّ كثيرًا أو ندقّ قليلًا. يمكننا الانتقال إلى التصفيق لجعل النشاط متنوّعًا.

نثري لغتنا

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نركّز على إثراء لغة الطفل بالأفعال، عن طريق طرح الأسئلة: ماذا يفعل الأرنب؟ ماذا يفعل نونو الصغير؟ بإمكاننا بعد الإجابة على السؤال أن نُمثّل الفعل معًا.

صندوق المفاجآت

نحضّر صندوقًا نملأُه بأغراض مختلفة، يدقّ كلّ طفل على الصندوق، ثم يمدّ يده ليُخرِج غرضًا ويسمّيه: “سيارة زرقاء!” نستطيع أن نوسّع الجملة عن طريق تكرارها مع إضافة كلمات جديدة، مثلًا: “سيارة زرقاء، سيارة زرقاء سريعة”. تساعد هذه اللعبة على توسيع القاموس اللغويّ وتعزيز بناء الجمل.

نكتشف الألوان

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نضع أطباقًا تحتوي على ألوان مختلفة، يغمس كلّ طفل يده في اللون الذي يفضّله ويسمّيه. بعد ذلك، يضع كلّ طفلين كفّيهما معًا ويفركانهما بلطف ليمتزج اللونان، ثم نسأل: ما هو اللون الجديد الذي نتج؟

Let’s talk...

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About our child’s desires and dreams: We can talk about them, reflect on whether they are achievable, and explore how to turn desires into goals and what helps us achieve them.

About problem-solving: What challenges have we faced, and how have we successfully invented solutions? We can recall our child’s successful experiences.

About natural phenomena: We can observe a natural phenomenon, listen to our child’s explanation, and explore its scientific reality together, such as falling leaves, sunset, and sunrise, cloud formation, and rain.

About gifts: What gifts does our child wish to receive? What surprise gifts have delighted them?

About our shared experiences: What activities does our child want to participate in together? We can brainstorm ideas for an enjoyable and meaningful time together.

Let’s enrich our Language...

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The moon: We can learn the basic phases of the moon (crescent, full, new). We familiarize ourselves with the concept of lunar months.

Nisan: It is one of the months in the Gregorian calendar (solar). We can recall the months and observe the characteristics of each of them.

Meanings of words: We can clarify new words and explain their meanings (gap, dim, stillness). We can think with our child about words that sound or mean something similar.

Let’s explore...

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Light and shadow: We can choose a room for a nighttime game, turn off the lights, and use lamps to explore the images we can create by reflecting our shadows on the wall. We can invent shapes and movements and enjoy their shadows.

Moon phases: We can observe the moon for several days. We may photograph or draw it and compare its different phases. We may seek information from scientific sources.

Let’s create...

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Enjoy songs and poems about the moon. We can perform expressive movements, dancing together to their tunes.

Prepare a moon-themed board: We can add shiny crescent-shaped strips to a black cardboard every day until it completes the full moon shape.

Let's talk...

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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.

Let's create...

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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.

Let's communicate...

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Let’s visit our grandparents and initiate a fun activity together, such as gardening, going for a nature walk, playing chess, and more.

Let’s talk...

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About new beginnings: we can talk to our children about the feelings they had when they encountered new experiences such as their first day at school, a new class, or a friend’s birthday. We can explore ways that helped them adapt together.

About diverse experiences: The box captured for us rituals and family experiences, such as arranging winter clothes, playing in the courtyard, enjoying ice cream, preparing thyme pies (Manaquesh), and playing with the box. We can ask our child: Which rituals resemble those in our home, and which ones are different? We can describe them together.

Let’s play...

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Let’s use our imagination and guess! We can sit in a group, and each person takes turns silently acting out an object (such as a cup, cat, lion, hammer), and others have to guess what this object is, and so on (time can be specified).

The magic of imagination: We can gather various objects (like hat, a pot, a scarf…) and explore diverse uses for the object, or imagine it as something else.

Let’s create...

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Recycling: The book sheds light on the topic of recycling. We can also create a bag from old pants for example, or plant pots from pickle jars, etc.

Let’s enrich our language...

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We can choose another object as the “hero” of the story, such as a bag or clothes, and we can creatively write a story about it from its perspective.

Let’s talk...

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Fun experiences: We can follow the drawings and accompany the girl and her dog on their journey in nature. We can list the things the girl did, asking our child about the activities they would like to do and the places they would like to visit in their nearby surroundings.

Gratitude and giving thanks: We can talk to our child about gratitude. Together, we list the blessings, starting with ourselves and our social relationships, then moving on to nature and our surroundings.

Let’s create...

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Drawing the world around us: We can gather coloured paper and pens, go outside to the garden or street, and “hunt” for colours. We can suggest to our child to draw lines in the shape they choose and select colours that resemble what they see in the world around them. After finishing the drawing, we can hang it in our child’s room.

Let’s initiate...

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We communicate and preserve nature: We can think of small actions that can make the world around us a little more beautiful. We can plant some flowers in the neighbourhood, keep nature clean during our walks, plant trees, or take care of a tree in the nearby nature throughout the year.

Let’s enrich our language...

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We enrich our vocabulary and introduce our children to the world of animals and their categories—insects, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and more.

Let’s explore and communicate...

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Camping trip in nature: We can explore our country, admire its landscapes, learn about its plants, and listen to its sounds.

Let’s talk...

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About trying and experimenting: The bear planted seeds that blossomed into similar flowers, except for one plant that didn’t bloom. Nevertheless, he didn’t give up, he took care of it, and provided all the necessary conditions. We can ask our child: Have you ever tried something and didn’t get what you wanted? How did you feel? What did you learn? Did you change something during your attempt, as the bear did?

About differences: Children enjoy planting seeds and observing their growth. This is an opportunity to talk to our child about the conditions for the growth of each type of plant (the amount of water and light it needs) and about what is common and different in the growth of each type.

About different perspectives: We can follow the drawings in the story and compare the rabbits and the bear. We can ask our child what the bear might be thinking about the plant, and what the rabbits might be thinking. Why do they have different ways of thinking?

Let’s enjoy leaning...

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Caring for plants requires the ability to wait and to be patient, a skill which our child may still lack. We can support them in developing this skill by agreeing to perform specific daily tasks that suit their abilities, such as watering the plant or measuring its height with a small ruler and marking it. Imagine how happy your child will be when they share in making a healthy dish from vegetables they planted in a pot on the balcony or in a garden bed!

Let’s enrich our language...

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In the book, there are two stories happening at the same time. We can enhance our child’s narrative ability by thinking up stories. We can look at the drawings and creatively add alternative endings of our own.

Let’s Talk

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• About the title: we can ask our child what is meant by “Book of Questions.”
• About Nature: The children explore nature in their immediate surroundings, engaging in a conversation about their favorite places in nature and the similarities and differences between the nature they see and the one presented in the book. We can ask them: How do you feel when we go on a hike in nature?

Let’s Create

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• “My Little Treasures” – each time our family goes on a hike in nature, we can gather things that pique our children’s curiosity and amazement, and we can talk about them together.
• The book’s illustrations capture scenes up close and from a distance, using collage techniques. With our child, we can color and cut colored paper in various shapes, forming a collage of the surrounding nature by pasting the paper cutouts onto a cardboard sheet.

Let’s Play and Have Fun

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We can listen to the sounds of nature, discovering them, and engaging in a relaxation and meditation activity afterward.

Let’s Explore

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We can ask questions about natural phenomena, searching for answers with our child: Why doesn’t the moon fall? How are stars formed? Why do tree leaves fall?

Let’s Enrich our Language

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• The book is rich in thought-provoking questions, full of imagination, similes, and metaphors. For example: “Is the soil the skin of the world?” We can talk with our child about the similarities and differences between soil and skin, and why the children used this metaphor. We can ask our children to count the similarities and differences in each question.
• We can also create questions in the style of the children’s questions: Are leaves the hair of trees…? Are stones…?

Let’s talk...

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About the plot: The book is mainly based on drawings. We can encourage our children to “read” the drawings and help them describe them using accurate verbs and vocabulary and make connections between sentences. We can ask them: Why do you think Nabil noticed the wounded bird by himself in the midst of a crowd of people, while no one else noticed it? what did he do?

About feelings: We can talk with our children about the bird’s feelings. We can ask them: How did the bird feel when it hit the glass? How did it feel when no one noticed it?

About sympathy and help: Nabil alone noticed the wounded bird in a crowd of people, while no one else noticed it, and he helped it. We can ask our children: How does Nabil feel about the bird? Why did he help it? How did the bird feel as well? Have they ever seen someone who needs help? How did they feel, and what did they do?

About taking care of the bird: Nabil took care of the bird with the help of his parents until it recovered. We can talk with our children and describe what Nabil has done.

Let’s mimic...

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With our children, we can look closely at the moment Nabil released the bird. Together, we can imagine the bird talking and telling the other birds about what Nabil did. We can take on the characters and act them out with our children.

Let’s communicate...

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To adopt an animal, we can contact the Animal Welfare Organization. We can explore our favourite animals and find information about them with our kids.

Let’s enrich our language...

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With our children, we can track the book with its sequential drawings, and we can enrich and develop the narrative ability of our child by describing the events in a sequence, such as: The father prepared a house for the bird from the cardboard box, and the mother bandaged the broken wing, and then…

Let’s take initiative...

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With our children, we can pick a bowl to fill with water and place it on the balcony or on the edge of the window and designate it to water the birds. We should make sure to fill it with water every day. We can also put a bowl of water and leftover food for stray animals on the edge of the road.

Let’s have a conversation...

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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.

Let’s create and imagine...

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Various shapes are formed from clouds: we can look at the clouds with our children and imagine what they could be.

Let’s enrich our language...

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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.

Let’s explore...

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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.

A question...

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Where does rain come from? A question that leads us to search the Internet with our children.

Each picture in...

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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…”

We can chat...

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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?

The girl’s picnic...

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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?

Our child may...

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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.

Perhaps they want...

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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.

What do the lines...

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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!

It is nice...

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It is nice to involve our child in the reading process. For example, s/he can read some words out loud (blue, water, land…). The rhyming in the text helps us with various language games, such as sentence completion: How sweet is the scent of flowers in May/the garden smells great all —-. We can choose simple words from the text, such as large, drawings, etc. and think of words that have the same sounds (rhyme).

We can supply...

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We can supply ourselves with papers and colored pencils, and go out together to the garden of the house or the street in the neighborhood for a “Color Hunt.” We ask our child to draw lines in different shapes with colors that match the colors he sees in the world around him. Surely, s/he will have a nice painting to hang in his/her room.

Together, we can...

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Together, we can make a “family drawing.” The child can draw a line on which family members add other lines, forming one large drawing that everyone signs with pride!

Kids can enjoy...

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Kids can enjoy creating a “magical drawing.” We fill a sheet of cardboard with adjoining lines of all colors. We cover the drawing using a black wax or oil-based color. Then, we use a thin wooden stick or the edge of a coin to draw on the black cardboard, so the colors underneath can stand out.

We can do...

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We can do good deeds. We think of small actions that can make the world around us a little more beautiful. We might plant some roses in the neighborhood, help an elderly neighbor carry his things, surprise a family member with something he loves, or just smile at those we pass by on the road.

The painter painted...

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The painter painted the waves in green and lilac, the stars in pink, and created strange creatures. It is fun to shape our special strange creature with dough or with colorful playdough, and imagine what it can do!

We stop at...

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We stop at the first page and explain to our child that the gifts Rafif received are different from the gifts that s/he knows. How is it different? We count the gifts together after reading the story.

What things...

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What things make us happy at home, in kindergarten, in the neighborhood, and in nature? Our child may want to draw one of them.

We look at...

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We look at the painting on pages 10 and 11 together: What does Rafif’s breakfast consist of? What is our breakfast like?

Rafif was happy...

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Rafif was happy with her gifts. How does her joy appear in every drawing? What do we do when we are happy?

We can think...

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We can think of a free gift that we would like to give to someone we love. It could be a drawing we created, or a flower we picked from our garden.

The book’s drawings...

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The book’s drawings are styled as a collection/collage. We can cut different colored paper with our child, and, by using our imagination, we can make a drawing from scraps of paper pasted onto a cardboard.

What are you...

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“What are you wearing today? Open your closet and choose…” Sisi Clips invites us on the first page of the book. This activity may be fun to do with the child before reading the story and repeating it after finishing it. Will we choose our outfit our way or according to Sisi’s way?

What Sisi takes...

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What Sisi takes to the cinema that came out of the cornfield and the orange grove? Imagine other places Sisi goes, like the beach or the North Pole. Which fabulous clothes does she bring with her?

Sisi Clips wears...

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Sisi Clips wears large wondrous spectacles that enable her to see the origin of things. We can design together spectacles from colored cardboard and observe our personal belongings and other objects around the house. How do we see our feather pillow now? And the paper pad? This is an opportunity to talk with the child about the origin of materials, their natural environments, and their manufacturing methods.

Sometimes disagreements arise....

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Sometimes disagreements arise between our children and us about clothes. The child insists on choosing his/her own clothes, while we try to convince him/her otherwise because we think the clothes are not suitable. This is an opportunity to listen to the child’s point of view and to discuss the considerations that we take when we choose our clothes (such as the weather, the event, personal taste, etc.)

Sisi Clips? Which...

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Sisi Clips? Which clips? Can we identify them in every drawing?

The drawings of...

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The drawings of the book are surprising, creative, and full of references to the text. Observe the drawings and notice how they indicate the weather or the places that Sisi’s animals/clothes visit.

Nature is a...

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Nature is a rich source of many of the simple products that we can test with our children at home. For example, we can make watercolors from vegetables and plants. Boil on low heat different plants for different colors with water twice its quantity until the water is reduced (shredded beetroot for dark red, or onion peels for yellow/orange, or parsley veins for green). This way you will get beautiful watercolors.