Highlights® September 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)
Paint scenes from your home or neighborhood, and throw a mystery party.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 13)
Find at least 12 differences in these pictures.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the ice-cream bar, baseball bat, and other objects.
Walk Through an Index Card (page 24)
Try this with an index card and a pair of scissors.
Crafts (page 26)
Make some Bead Bugs, design Artist Trading Cards, and create and play a "Launch the Yarn Ball" game.
Funny Fold-Ups (page 32)
Get ready to laugh with these paper-passing games.
Thinking (page 33)
Ponder what's happening at this printing press.
BrainPlay (page 39)
What are some ways to memorize a lot of lines for a play?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find the similarities among various musicians in the Critterville Middle-School Band.
ARTS
The Giant in the Forest (page 22)
This fun sculpture greets tourists at a garden in the United Kingdom.
FICTION
Ask Arizona (page 10)
Arizona and a former "enemy" become friends.
Just Another Game (page 16)
Hector takes control of his emotions and helps his soccer team in the championship game.
The Amazing Turnip (page 34)
Mattie's grandma shares a surprising story about how she met Mattie's grandpa.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Tongue Twisters (page 8)
Try saying these tricky sentences submitted by kids.
Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 12)
Kids share drawings and descriptions of creatures they created.
Your Own Pages (page 30)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about ruining a popular reputation and getting distracted when doing homework.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Letters (page 13)
Find out how spiders are born.
Science Corner (page 18)
Discover why opossums might stop moving, and draw a nature map.
Dino Days (page 18)
"What color were T. rex's eggs?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Nature Watch (page 24)
Learn about gopher snakes.
All Together Now, Fireflies! (page 36)
See what scientists learned about fireflies that flash in synchrony.
VALUES
Gallant Kids (page 9)
Molly Knox created a project to help animals.
WORLD CULTURES
Building a School (page 28)
Kids who didn't know each other joined together to build a school in their new village in Africa.