Living organisms

About the book

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Dear Parents, 

This fun and interactive book takes us on a journey with our child, where we knock on doors filled with surprises. These surprises allow the child to explore their world, and give us, the parents, the chance to see things through their eyes. 

The book helps expand our child’s knowledge, enrich their vocabulary, and expose them to various concepts such as: colors, numbers, shapes, and animal names. It also opens the door to conversations about feelings and develops different sensory skills. 

We rejoice as we see our child grow rapidly, experiment, feel, and learn. When we allow them to experience diverse situations and accompany them with patience and love, their curiosity and desire to learn and explore flourish, and they acquire new skills and information. This strengthens their abilities to understand and express themselves. 

Let’s hold our child close and knock on the doors of the book together. Let’s read and enjoy it side by side. 

Before opening the door: Ask the child to guess what’s behind the door based on the color or the picture.

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Let’s Talk 

Before opening the door: Ask the child to guess what’s behind the door based on the color or the picture. Knock on the door and open it together, then observe the illustration and ask: Who’s behind the door? What are they doing? Name the characters, the objects, and their actions. 

About feelings: Talk to the child about the characters’ emotions. For example, ask: How did the rabbit feel when it ate the carrot? 

About preferences: Ask your child what color they love, and look together for objects of the same color. 

Explore the meanings of some verbs mentioned in the book

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Let’s Enrich Our Language 

Explore the meanings of some verbs mentioned in the book such as: knock, nibble, rub—then act them out together. It’s important to use these words with your child in daily life. 

Let’s Broaden Our Knowledge 

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Let’s Broaden Our Knowledge 

Colors: Choose a door color with your child, and search the room for objects of the same color, naming them together. 

Let’s count together: Hold your child’s finger, trace the animals on the page, and count them. You might ask: How many rabbits do you see? How many monkeys? Then: How many fingers on your hand? How many eyes do you have? 

Imitate the sounds of the animals in the book.

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Let’s Play 

Imitate the sounds of the animals in the book, like monkeys, or objects like a drum. Listen to the different sounds around you, whether indoors or outdoors, name them, and imitate them. 

We can look...

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We can look together at the last page of the book, where it has all the animal pictures: we can recall with our child the name of each animal and why it is hard to bring them home.

Encourage the child...

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Encourage the child to think of an animal that was mentioned in the book and imagine together what we need to change in the house to make it livable for that animal (make a hole in the ceiling so the giraffe can stand straight…)

We can have...

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We can have a conversation about other animals, that are not mentioned in the book, and discuss whether it is hard to keep them in the house and why.

If you have a pet...

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If you have a pet at home, you can have a conversation about it, what the child loves about it and what is needed to take care for it.

We can imagine...

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We can imagine that the dog in the story dirtied the house, and the parents did not like at all. Suggest to the child, what other animals she can raise in the house.

We are hosting...

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We are hosting the animals! Maybe we want to make masks of animals faces and give each member of the family one and ask them to imitate the animal’s voice and way of moving. All we need is to draw the animals face and sticks.

Where did Simsim...

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Where did Simsim disappear to? We can talk with our child about what caused the kitten to disappear, and we may remember a similar incident in the family. What did the child feel and think?

The protagonist...

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The protagonist in the story was worried about Simsim, and the parents supported her by hugging her and looking for him. We can have a talk about different ways to look for Simsim (such as publishing through social media…)

What would our child...

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What would our child like to do with the pet or bird he has at home? It would be fun to look for funny photos of the child and the pet, and share them with family or friends at school.

What other pets...

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What other pets we can raise at home? Do we know families that raise unusual animals in their homes?

A lot of children’s...

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A lot of children’s stories revolve around animals. We might want to go over books about pets in our library or we might enjoy watching a video about pets that the child choose.

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.