Dear Parents,

What does our child dream of? What are their desires? Are they achievable, and is their imagination more dominant than reality?

Imaginative play evolves in the child's second year, and as the child's cognitive and emotional skills develop, their ability to distinguish between reality and imagination increases.

The book seamlessly integrates reality and imagination in an engaging manner. We follow the father accompanying his daughter, Nisan, encouraging her to explore and discover, fostering her imagination, and facilitating the development of problem-solving skills through shared experiences. It is an invitation to listen to our child's voice, provide opportunities for expressing their desires, fantasies, and dreams, and share in their childhood adventures in exploratory and enjoyable ways.

On another note, the book highlights the child's development of empathy, moving beyond the desire for possession and selfishness to sharing with others.

Let’s Talk

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

Enjoy your reading!