Highlights® January 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)
Navigate a maze, and get some tips to "spark a story."

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

Time Capsule in Your Closet (page 8)
Write, draw, and collect items in a box to be opened in 2020. It will remind you of what life was like in 2010.

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the hat, fork, and other objects.

Check . . . and Double Check (page 20)
Find 12 differences in these pictures.

Eight Pizzas (page 25)
Solve these puzzles.

Crafts (page 26)
Make a Little Sheep Bank, create and play a Coil Maze Game, and design some Walnut Critters.

Thinking (page 30)
Ponder what's happening at this pet shelter.

BrainPlay (page 41)
List three things you might do when you feel sad. List three things you might do when you feel happy.

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Look for 27 "Fishy Finds."

FICTION
Grabby Big Tom Bumble (page 6)
This bear learns to mind his manners.

If I Could Write a Letter . . . (page 18)
An author pens letters to storybook characters.

First Step (page 28)
Aaron starts to skate, one step at a time.

HUMOR
The Timbertoes® (page 9)
The family members learn new skills.

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

Riddles (page 40)
Kids share their favorite riddles.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 36)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about wanting a pet and getting organized.

REBUS
Little and Big (page 35)
Alex gives Susan a gift that is much bigger than its box.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
What to Wear in Outer Space (page 22)
See what astronauts wear during part of their space missions.

Science Corner (page 24)
Make some bubble solution, and learn how a compass works.

Dino Days (page 24)
"Have you ever found a Triceratops horn?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.

VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 12)
Goofus ignores his parents' guests; Gallant greets guests.

The Bear Family (page 21)
Mom discovers that staying home on a rainy day isn't so bad after all.

VERSE
Oliphaunt (page 5)

Where After Comes Before (page 15)

Crescent Moon (page 40)