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Highlights High Five
A Favorite Story Volume 14
Number 3
Issue No. 159

Editor in Chief: Christine French Cully
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2020!

March













Reading Activities




4 Verse Who’s Who 30 Recipe Tasty Popcorn Cauliflower



5 The Adventures of Spot 32 Move It! I Can Be a Tree
Spot Cleans Windows

34 Craft Taped Letters
6 Tex and Indi Sidewalk Artists



12 Nonfiction Nature Pattern



20 English and Spanish
Doña Rosa: A Cool Idea



26 Fiction My Favorite Bedtime Story






Puzzles





10 My First Hidden Pictures Super Friends



15 Whoops! Color ful Crayons


16 Poem Puzzle Counting Matryoshki


18 That’s Silly! The Garden Center



24 Look and Look Again Our First Flight



36 Back Cover Help Max Find Buddy










Join the fun!


HighlightsForChildren

HighlightsForChildren

Highlights

Verse






Who’s Who












By Helen Kemp Zax Art by Pauline Reeves

I call my mother Mommy.


My daddy calls her Sue.

I call my father Daddy.


My mommy calls him Lou.





I call my mom’s dad Pop-Pop.


I call my dad’s dad Pa.


I call my mom’s mom Nana.


I call my dad’s mom Ma.





My mommy calls me Sweetie.


My daddy calls me Boo.

What do you call your family?


And what do they call you?











































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The Adventures of Spot





SPOT CLEANS WINDOWS



Episode #159

By Marileta Robinson Art by Ron Zalme





























Spring is here. It’s time for a good cleaning.






























Tommy washes the windows. That smudge won’t come off.































Spot can help. Thanks, Spot!




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Tex and Indi








Sidewalk Artists









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By Lissa Rovetch Art by Amy Wummer








































































“What’s in that bucket?” asked Indi.

“Sidewalk chalk,” said Tex.


“Ooh!” said Indi. “Let’s go draw!”


“I see rain clouds,” said Dad. “You might want


to start before the sidewalk gets wet.”






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The twins drew and drew.


“I’m making a magical flower,” said Tex.

“I’m drawing a giraffe with a super-long neck so it can


smell your flower,” said Indi.


“What bright colors!” said Mom. “But it’s time for lunch,


so let’s take a break and come back later.”





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“Mmm,” said Indi. “This soup is yummy.”


As they ate, the sky turned dark, and rain started


pouring down.


“Oh, no,” said Tex. “Our drawings are going to


wash away.”







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The twins ran outside after lunch.


“Aww,” said Tex. “My flower is gone.”


“So is my giraffe,” said Indi. “But look, there’s

a rainbow!”


“Hmm,” said Tex. “Maybe we can turn our drawings


into a rainbow!”


“That’s a great idea,” said Indi. “Two rainbows are


better than one!”






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My First Art by Tom Knight


















































































Super Friends























Pizza Pencil Lollipop Almond Broccoli







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Find the objects hidden in the picture!









Can you find

this snail
on the back


Doughnut Kite Envelope Snail cover?






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Nonfiction



Nature

















































































Nature loves to do


the same thing over

and over again. Look


at a tree. Branches


grow more branches.


Mathematicians call

this a fractal.






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B
Patter




















Look at the

repeated

pattern!
































































Look closely at a snowflake,


a fern, or a pinecone. You’ll


see the same shape repeated

in smaller and smaller sizes.






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This shell


repeats in

a swirl.
There is

a pattern


in the

snowflake.





































Delicious

fractals!



























You can eat a fractal! The


vegetable Romanesco has


tiny spirals of triangles on

top of spirals of triangles.


Broccoli and cauliflower are


fractals too!






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Whoops!
Art by Alex Willmore






Colorful Crayons





















































Blue Crayon Red Crayon














































Yellow Crayon Carrot Crayon?




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Poem Puzzle


Counting









Matryoshki














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By Amanda Hayward Art by Lesley Breen Withrow






One happy wooden doll looking at me—


open her up and what do I see?


One becomes two, and two becomes three.


Three becomes four little dolls for me.


Open up the fourth doll and what do I see?


The cutest little, smallest little doll baby.










How many matryoshki



do you see?




What do you see



that is small and what do


you see that is large?















Matryoshki (mah-tree-OH-shkee) are Russian nesting dolls
of different sizes. They are built to fit one inside the other.






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That’s Silly! Art by Julissa Mora










The Garden Center











































What silly things do you see?



























































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English and Spanish

















A Cool Idea













By Ana Galán Art by Violet Lemay Spanish pronunciation by Linda Elman, Ph.D.



































It was a hot day in Miami, so Doña


Rosa decided to go to her favorite shop.


“Quiero helado de fresa, por favor,”

she said.


“Strawberry ice cream?” said the


server. “You got it!”








Quiero helado de fresa, por favor.

key-YEHR-oh ell-LAH-doh

de FREH-sah POHR fah-VOHR

I want strawberry ice cream, please.







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He put one scoop of ice cream into a bowl. “Is this enough?”


he asked.


“Un poco más, por favor,” said Doña Rosa.

The server added another scoop. “Like this?” he asked.


“Un poco más, por favor,” said Doña Rosa.


The server added a third scoop to the bowl.


“Is this good?” he asked.


“¡Sí, gracias!” said Doña Rosa, and she went off to the lake.





Un poco más, por favor. ¡Sí, gracias!


OON POH-koh MAHSS POHR fah-VOHR SEE GRAH-see-ahss

A little more, please. Yes, thank you!







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When Lucy and Mary saw


Doña Rosa carrying the


big bowl of ice cream, they ¡Helado para todas!

flocked to her. ell-LAH-doh pah-rah TOH-dahss


“Ice cream!” screamed Lucy. Ice cream for all!


“Ice cream!” screamed Mary.


“¡Helado para todas!” said


Doña Rosa.




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Look and Look Again Art by Rachael McLean




Our First





































































































How are these pictures the same?







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Fl ig h t









































































































How are they different?





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Fiction



My Favorite












Bedtime












Story














By Eileen Spinelli Art by Joel and Ashley Selby









At bedtime, I get all cozy


under the covers, and Mama


dims the light. In a sleepy-


soft voice, she begins my

favorite story.


“Once upon a time, on a


March night, cold and deep


with snow,” she says, “you


were born. I told your Papa:

‘It’s time!’ Papa ran out in his


socks and house slippers to


warm up the car.”

When she says that, Mama


and I always giggle.







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Mama continues. “I grabbed the red suitcase I had packed


weeks before. Papa sang to me as we drove. I rested my head on

his shoulder and took deep breaths. Streetlamps shimmered like


tiny moons in the snowy dark. It was a beautiful night.”






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Because I know the story by heart, I pipe up, “At the


hospital, a nurse helped you into a blue gown. The doctor


smiled at Papa and told him everything would be fine.”


Mama strokes my hair. “Yes—and Papa held my hand. And

the wind whirled puffs of snow at the window. The nurse


turned my pillow, and it was cool like a cloud of snow.”





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“And then you came, my sweet girl. Papa held you


and called you his little snow angel.”






























My eyes get

droopy. I yawn. I


snuggle deeper


under my blanket.


I whisper, “And we


all lived happily

ever after.”





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T asty
Recipe By Pat Tanumihardja Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.
T asty









Popcorn






































Yummy!



Try this: Dip in ketchup


or BBQ sauce.









Before You

Begin


Adult: Preheat
oven to 425°F.
Spray a baking

sheet with
cooking spray.


1 Break. 2
Whisk.




Break cauliflower In a separate bowl,

into bite-sized whisk panko and

florets (pieces). coconut. Add two

shakes each of salt
and pepper.



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Cauliflower You Need




Cooking spray

1 small head of

cauliflower

1 cup panko

bread crumbs

½ cup

unsweetened
shredded

coconut

Kosher salt and

ground black

pepper

½ cup flour

2 large eggs,

beaten








































3 Coat. 4 Pour. 5
Spray.




Coat the cauliflower Pour in the panko Place the florets on

with flour. Add the mixture. Mix until the sheet and spray

eggs. Mix until the the florets are with cooking spray.

florets are coated. evenly coated. Adult: Bake for 16 minutes
until golden brown.



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Move It! By Elizabeth Steinglass Art by Fiona Powers Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.











































































































These are my roots, This is my trunk,
gripping the ground. growing tall and round.





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These are my branches, These are my leaves.
touching the sky. nd say, “Hi.”





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Craft By Lisa Glover Samples by Elizabeth McAllister Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.






































Masking Tape


Wrapped











































Masking


AthleticTape Duct Tape Tape Washi Tape

Wrapped and and and and

Overlapped Masking Washi Tape Electrical

Tape Mixed

Woven Textures Tape
Overlapped









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Washi Tape
Washi Tape Diagonal


Mixed Patterns Athletic Tape Patterns
Ruffled









What’s your favorite letter?






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YourHigh Five!
Can you help




Max find Buddy?
George, age 4,
New Jersey (craft
from September 2019)


















Zoe, age 5,
New York (craft
from December 2018)













Jake, age 5,
Delaware (recipe
from September 2019)

















Adela, age 4, Look for the hidden
California (recipe
from May 2019) “Smiling ” on the

front cover.



I was hiding, but
you found me!




Photo credit: Page 13: (girl) Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc. Stock photo credits: Page 12: (tree) iStock/Getty Images Plus/29mokara; 13 (right) iStock/Getty Images Plus/Dole08; 14: (from top) E+/Getty Images/
FlamingPumpkin, iStock/Getty Images Plus/ChaoticMind75, iStock/Getty Images Plus/Andrey Elkin, iStock/Getty Images Plus/scisettialfio; 30: (bottom left) iStock/Getty Images Plus/Andrey Elkin