Highlights® October 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)
Get some energy-saving tips, and have a baking party.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Lorna's Pumpkin (page 6)
Solve this puzzle.
Thinking (page 7)
Ponder what's happening in this cave.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the sailboat, ice-cream bar, and other objects.
The Room You're In (page 30)
Play this memory game.
Where Was the Wheel? (page 30)
Find the answer to this puzzle.
Crafts (page 34)
Create and wear Bigfoot Shoes, design a Necktie Change Purse, and make a Shoebox Piñata.
Your Best Self (page 38)
A boy helps his sister when their mom is busy.
Start a Book Club! (page 38)
Read books and discuss them with a group of friends.
BrainPlay (page 39)
What do you think makes someone a "best friend"?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Identify these mystery photos of common household items.
ARTS
Big Bugs (page 22)
See the work of an artist who makes giant sculptures of some of the world's smallest creatures.
FICTION
The Perfect Friend (page 8)
Becky finds that she really does have the perfect friends.
The King of Halloween (page 32)
José creates a unique costume.
HUMOR
The Timbertoes® (page 11)
Tommy makes the perfect cover for the family's autumn book.
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
You Illustrated the Poem! (page 20)
Kids share the pictures they created after reading the poem "They."
Your Own Pages (page 26)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about sleeping with a nightlight and not knowing what to give as gifts.
REBUS
The Home-Grown Gifts (page 18)
Mouse and Elephant share the bounty from their gardens.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 19)
Learn how to figure out the age of some trees, and try an experiment with water.
Dino Days (page 19)
"How big was the biggest dino scat?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
Goofus bothers a classmate during class; Gallant waits until after class to talk to his friends.
The Bear Family (page 31)
The cubs find that everyone wins and the neighborhood looks great after they pick up trash.
VERSE
The House at the Corner (page 5)
Night Light (page 15)