Highlights® March 2010 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)
Make a pinwheel and figure out a maze.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the open book, spatula, and other objects.
Crafts (page 26)
Design a Personalized Mobile, create a CD Rainbow Sun Catcher, and make a Lezim, an Indian musical instrument.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 34)
Find 12 differences in these pictures.
Thinking (page 35)
Ponder what's happening in this race.
BrainPlay (page 39)
Describe how a pen works.
FICTION
The Tenth Puppy (page 8)
Saralynn helps her uncle discover the missing "puppy."
Ask Arizona (page 24)
Arizona and Ollie figure out a great way to remember "Grandfather Oak."
Play Ball, Jaguar Paw! (page 40)
Jaguar Paw finally finds some kids who just want to play the game.
HUMOR
A Chicken Chuckle (page 28)
NONFICTION
What a Pro Knows: Bubble Science (page 16)
Fan Yang may be the world's only bubble artist and scientist.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Stories (page 20)
Kids share stories they wrote.
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 getting angry and including others in activities.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 18)
Find out how hot water can help open a jar.
Dino Days (page 18)
"Do you have an idea of how big a dinosaur's brain was?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Nature Watch (page 28)
Spring peepers live in marshes and other wetlands in eastern and central North America.
Learning to Speak Bear (page 30)
Scientist Lynn Rogers studies what black bears are saying.
Science Letters (page 34)
Learn how thermometers find the temperature.
VALUES
Gallant Kids (page 7)
Adam and Daniel Parker share their love of Marx Brothers movies with senior citizens.