Highlights® November 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)
Celebrate Sandwich Day with a sandwich-building event and solve the Touchdown Run maze.
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.
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.
Play the Chain Game (page 40)
Shape a chain into the outline of an object and have other players guess what it is.
BrainPlay (page 41)
Think of four words that have nearly the same meaning.
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Follow the chutes with your finger to see how the marbles will make it out of this maze.
ADVENTURE
Hide-and-Seek School (page 26)
These dogs train to rescue people from avalanches.
FICTION
Ask Arizona (page 12)
Arizona and her family find a way to thank their grocery store's customers at Thanksgiving.
Sandstorm! (page 22)
Jason remembers emergency procedures and saves his friend's father's life.
Lizard Problems (page 38)
Amy overcomes her fear of lizards.
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.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
The Dolphin Who Loved Games (page 10)
This friendly dolphin played games with people and birds.
Nature Watch (page 18)
Learn about the antlers of elk.
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.
Science Letters (page 37)
See different kinds of nuthatches.
VALUES
Gallant Kids (page 24)
Cody Clark provides bears and comfort kits for people in a hospital.
WORLD CULTURES
Crimson Harvest (page 34)
This family has been cranberry farming for more than 100 years.