Is the meal prepared by the lion appetizing? It’s time for a feast. You may want to prepare your family’s favorite food, draw animal characters on paper napkins, make a crown for each person sitting at the table, and eat together.
The zebra’s friends feature in the book’s illustrations: You could leaf through them together, find the various friends, name the animals together, and introduce them. Next, you could say the name of an animal you know, and then look for it in among the illustrations contained in this book.
Who saved whom? You may want to read the end of the story again. Who, in your opinion, saves whom? Have you ever helped a friend in need? Has anyone ever “saved” you? Maybe you would like to imagine the little girl meeting her parents at the end of the school day, and the conversation they might have. You, the little girl’s parents, might ask: “How was your day in kindergarten?”. Later you may enjoy thinking up a similar conversation between the boy and his parents.
“He who works his land shall have plenty of bread” (Proverbs 28:19): In the field the brothers plough, sow, reap… in Hebrew there are many words that describe farming! You may like to look at the illustrations, and identify together which action is being performed in each one and compare the tools, then and now.
You may like to look at the illustrations together, where many details appear that are not mentioned in the story. What do the siblings like to do while their father works in the field? What are the animals in the story doing? Perhaps you’d like to find the illustration where the father tells them he does not remember where the treasure is buried. What do the children imagine finding there? You may want to ask your own child what they regard as a “treasure” and what they might have hoped to find in the field, had they been promised a treasure.
There’s A Rabbit on The Train
Ayelet’s Day Out
Crafts
Reading
Embodiment
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