Highlights® February 2009 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)
Solve a word puzzle, and create some pancake-related tongue twisters.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the key, mug, and other objects.
Lexi's Central American Adventure (page 19)
Solve this puzzle by pinpointing the countries.
Crafts (page 20)
Make and use a secret cipher disk, design a gear-rific valentine, and create a shadow-box sports frame.
Thinking (page 35)
Ponder how life was different in the time of President George Washington.
BrainPlay (page 39)
If pets were in charge of households, what would be different?
ARTS
Louis and the King (page 12)
Learn about the humble start of one of the "Kings of Jazz."
FICTION
Break That Press (page 8)
Real teamwork wins the game for the Hawks.
Ask Arizona (page 22)
Ollie and Arizona learn that planning is important, but flexibility is valuable, too.
Macaroni and Fleas (page 40)
This girl solves the mystery of the missing macaroni.
HISTORY
Mr. Lincoln's Dog (page 26)
Find out what happened to Fido when President Abraham Lincoln and his family moved to the White House.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Backpack Buddies! (page 6)
Kids share their creations.
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 being a member of too many school clubs and being teased.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 18)
Find out what "horsepower" means, and try an experiment with water.
Dino Days (page 18)
"Is there any other very good meat eater than T. rex?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Science Letters (page 29)
Discover whether other planets and moons show signs of past volcanic activity.
The Stowaway Fox (page 32)
This arctic creature accidentally took a long trip in a big garbage container before arriving in Seattle, Washington.