Highlights® December 2009 Parent/Teacher Guide (Beginning 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)
Find your way through a snowy maze, and get ideas of things you could do before the end of 2009.

Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.

Sticks: A Game (page 6)
Play this game with a friend.

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the canoe, candy cane, and other objects.

Don't Wake the Sleeping Dragon (page 21)
Sneak up on the dragon's lair to nab some treasure.

Thinking (page 28)
Ponder what's happening on this basketball court.

Crafts (page 32)
Design holiday gift bags, make a jingle-bell mobile, and create a beaded necklace.

Your Best Self (page 36)
This girl finishes her thank-you notes before watching a movie with a friend.

Soft-Drink Spritzer (page 36)
Stir up this tasty treat.

BrainPlay (page 37)
Name five things that you laugh at.

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find the 11 objects that look exactly the same in these two pictures.

FICTION
The Private I's and the Case of the Mixed-Up Message (page 30)
Three sisters decode a message that helps the family know when to pick up their Grandma at the airport.

Now That's Interesting (page 38)
Jimmy's selection of something to share with the class turns out to be the most interesting of all.

HUMOR
The Timbertoes® (page 11)
Ma helps Woolly stay warm.

Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.

Riddles (page 36)
Kids share their favorite riddles.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Ice-Cream Scoops! (page 20)
Kids share creative ice-cream flavor ideas.

Your Own Pages (page 24)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about not having a talent and a fear of dogs.

REBUS
Happy Hanukkah (page 19)
Naomi's family lights the Hanukkah candles.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 18)
Find out why welders make steel so hot, and learn how airplanes follow "highways in the sky."

Dino Days (page 18)
"Why did T. rex have tiny arms?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.

VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
Goofus laughs when kids make fun of his friend; Gallant tells the others that it's not cool to say unkind things.

VERSE
Winter Morning (page 5)

Wolf Spider (page 7)

December Song (page 15)