Highlights® December 2007 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)
Identify a mystery photo and solve a basketball puzzle.
Curve like the Animals (page 11)
Try these exercises to keep your back flexible and strong.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the leaf, bell, and other objects.
Crafts (page 20)
Make a picture keepsake for your family, design a tambourine, and create and play a "Scrambled Legs" game.
Thinking (page 24)
Ponder what's happening in this Kwanzaa celebration scene.
A Hanukkah Game (page 38)
Play this game with dreidels.
BrainPlay (page 39)
What keeps a train on the tracks?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find the 10 items that each have been replaced by a rhyming item.
ARTS
Unfolding Fairy Tales (page 40)
Hans Christian Andersen cut and snipped folded paper to create elves, fairies, and animals of all kinds.
FICTION
I Could See It! (page 6)
Alex learns to "see the shot" and make the basket.
Ask Arizona (page 16)
Arizona sees how her procrastination affects other people.
Christmas Shelter (page 26)
Lisha learns to look at shelters differently after participating in a posada party.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
You Helped the Cartoonists! (page 19)
Readers create cartoon captions.
Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 28)
Kids share pictures of and stories about 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 feeling shy and missing school because of a family trip.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 25)
Think about why there are so many different kinds of saws and find out how polar bears can swim in cold water.
Dino Days (page 25)
"What were the first kinds of dinosaurs?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Catching Andromeda's Light (page 32)
By observing Andromeda, scientists have learned a lot about our Galaxy, the Milky Way.
Science Letters (page 34)
Discover why diamonds sparkle.
VALUES
Gallant Kids (page 9)
Eight-year-old Adora Svitak talks to other kids about reading and writing.