Family Activities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• We can browse the family album, and together we can recall family experiences and occasions with grandparents.
• 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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