Highlights® November 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)
Celebrate Sandwich Day with a sandwich-building event and solve the Touchdown Run maze.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
You're the Chef! (page 9)
Try these tasty recipes for Thanksgiving or anytime.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the glove, comb, and other objects.
What Goes in the Middle? (page 18)
Solve these puzzles.
When a Lion Roars (page 25)
Figure out how many birds fly away when a lion approaches.
Crafts (page 28)
Make and play a Turkey Toss game, create a Watercolor Leaf Wreath, and design some Greeting-Card Bookmarks.
Thinking (page 33)
Ponder what's happening in this orchestra pit.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 37)
Find at least 12 differences in these two pictures.
BrainPlay (page 41)
If you could change one thing about computers, what would it be?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Follow the chutes with your finger to see how the marbles will make it out of this maze.
FICTION
The Mystery of the Missing Apples (page 6)
Raccoon figures out what happened to the apples.
I'm Not Running (page 30)
Amanda finally solves the problem of a boy who chases her on the playground.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 8)
Mabel finally joins the family in outdoor fun on a chilly day.
Riddles (page 40)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 20)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
What Are Your Favorite Books? (page 36)
Kids tell about books they enjoyed.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about competing in a geography bee and being one of few boys in a school made up of mostly girls.
REBUS
Tree-Cyle (page 19)
Some acorns that fall are food for animals, while others grow into new trees.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Hanging by a Thread (page 16)
Learn how caterpillars avoid danger.
Science Corner (page 32)
Find out why cacti live in desert places, and try a challenge to make clay float.
Dino Days (page 32)
"How did Apatosaurus protect itself from other dinosaurs?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 25)
Goofus is a sore loser; Gallant congratulates the winner.
VERSE
The Circle of Days (page 5)
Giving Thanks (page 15)