Highlights® February 2010 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)
Learn how to say "I Love You" in five languages and figure out a puzzle.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Maatcha, Maatcha, Bagootar! (page 10)
Try this Nepali game for two players.
Sticky-Bun Butter (page 10)
Make a breakfast treat.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the ring, slipper, and other objects.
Crafts (page 24)
Design some Wiggly Noodle Snakes, make a Build-a-Picture Game, and create a Sign of Love.
Party Brainteaser (page 28)
Solve this puzzle.
Thinking (page 34)
Ponder what's happening in this diner.
BrainPlay (page 39)
Name two foods that are sweet, two that are salty, and two that are sour.
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find words that sound alike in this picture.
FICTION
Don't Eat the Giggleberries! (page 22)
A fruit vendor cheers up the residents of Sadville.
Allie's Sparrow (page 36)
This young girl helps free a bird that got caught in a store.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 21)
Ma creates an unexpected Valentine's Day greeting.
Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
What's Inside? (page 18)
Kids share their drawings of mysterious creatures.
Your Own Pages (page 32)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about test-taking trouble and thinking of an idea for an invention for a class project.
REBUS
A Cold Kangaroo (page 35)
A quick-thinking woman helps rescue a kangaroo found hopping in the snow.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Weaving in My Mango Tree (page 8)
See how weaver ants save mango trees.
Science Corner (page 20)
Learn why some bushes and trees don't drop their leaves in winter.
Dino Days (page 20)
"Which was the first dinosaur to go extinct?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 28)
Goofus leaves things where they fall; Gallant picks up.
VERSE
There Are Days and There Are Days (page 5)
Fred (page 15)