Highlights® December 2008 Parent/Teacher Guide (Independent Readers)
Looking for opportunities to help your students learn with Highlights? This monthly guide to the magazine will help you find stories and activities that suit your students' reading level.
ACTIVITIES
Fun This Month (page 2)
Play End-of-Year Charades, and use some easy gift ideas.
Thinking (page 9)
Ponder what's happening in this bakery scene.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the paintbrush, bell, and other objects.
Crafts (page 32)
Make and play a tree-topper game, design a cookie tray, and create some family-fun candles.
BrainPlay (page 41)
If you had just one magical wish, what would you wish for?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find your way through this maze, discover two matching snowflakes, and solve a puzzle.
FICTION
A Crocodile Tale (page 6)
A boy finds a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist. And then finds that he has a real problem.
Ask Arizona (page 22)
Arizona helps her super-sensitive friend.
Rotterdam Christmas (page 30)
Johanna races to help her father while German soldiers occupy Holland during World War II.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Catching the "Nice Bug" (page 18)
Kids share stories about acts of kindness.
Your Own Pages (page 34)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about earning money and daydreaming in class.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Watching Wild Baboons (page 16)
Meet a scientist who dodged elephants and a cheetah to study baboons.
Science Corner (page 20)
Try an experiment, and find out how a soft squid can chew its food.
Dino Days (page 20)
"What was more dangerous, a male or female T. rex?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Science Letters (page 28)
Find out what volcano lava is.
One Chicken's
Discovery (page 40)
This bird dug up an argillite spearpoint in a place far from where it was made long ago.
WORLD CULTURES
Three Kings' Day (page 10)
Learn about this annual celebration in Spain.