Highlights High Five (January 2020)

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2020!














Readi Activities





4 Verse Ocean Unicorn 30 Recipe The Breakfast Dog



5 The Adventures of Spot 32 Craft Build a Birthday Cake
Sound Asleep

34 Move It! Monster Romp
6 Tex and Indi The Cleanup Dance



12 Fiction Sloth Party Guide



20 Nonfiction Spots and Dots



22 English and Spanish
Lola Chick: So Many Questions!



28 Graphic Story
A Surprise for Annabelle





Puzzles






10 My First Hidden Pictures Sidewalk Art


16 Look and Look Again Tasty Robots


18 That’s Silly! Bookstore Browsing



26 Poem Puzzle Bears on a Roll!



35 Whoops! Big Wheels


36 Back Cover Which animal has a trunk?






Join the fun!


HighlightsForChildren

HighlightsForChildren

Highlights

Verse By Diana Murray Art by Gareth Lucas








Ocean Unicorn




















A narwhal often has a tooth


that sticks out like a horn,

which makes it look a little like


an ocean unicorn.



It swims across the Arctic sea

as sheets of ice float by

and points its swirly-twirly “horn”


straight up into the sky.


























































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The Adventures of Spot





SOUND ASLEEP



Episode #157

By Marileta Robinson Art by Ron Zalme






























Splinter is asleep in her cozy bed. Crash!





























Boom! Boom! Boom! Swish, swish, swish.
































Nothing wakes her. Nothing—except the sound of dinner.




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Tex and Indi










The Cleanup Dance







By Lissa Rovetch Art by Amy Wummer



























































“I can’t find the soccer ball,” said Indi.


“I can’t find my library book,” said Tex.


“And I can’t find my homework binder,” said their


sister, Arizona.


“Maybe our cats took them,” said Tex, smiling.

“Yeah,” Indi giggled. “Maybe Charlie and Cow


play soccer, read books, and do homework when


we’re not looking.”






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“Or maybe this room is too messy to find anything,” said Dad.


“I’d say it’s time for the cleanup dance.”

“What’s that?” the kids asked together.


“We set the timer for 10 minutes,” said Dad, “then turn on


some happy music and do the cleanup dance!”







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Soon, everybody was dancing and cleaning and laughing.






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“Hooray!” said Arizona. “My homework binder was hiding


under this pillow.”


“Look, Tex,” said Indi. “Your book was in the game basket.”


“And here’s the soccer ball,” Tex said as the timer buzzed.


“Wow!” said Indi. “The cleanup dance makes cleaning fun!”

“I’m glad you think so,” said Mom, dancing into the room.


“Next can we do a cleanup dance with the breakfast dishes?”








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My First






















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Sidewalk Art






















Paper Clip Spoon Envelope Bandage Broccoli







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Art by Jeff Crowther



Find the objects hidden in the picture!









Look for

this ladybug

on the back

Peanut Basketball Paintbrush Ladybug cover!







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Fiction





































Sloth













Party












Guide













By Carrie Williford Art by Monika Filipina




If you want a sloth to come to your


party on a Wednesday, tell him to be

there by Tuesday. (As we all know, sloths


are usually late.) Sloths are the slowest


mammals on the planet, so you have to


give them plenty of time to get to a party.








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13

If you’re going to

throw a party for a


sloth, be sure to have


the snacks he likes.


Put a nice, big plate

of leaves on the table,


and you’ll have a


happy sloth.










































If it’s hot, make it a pool party! Sloths are great swimmers.












As for inviting other


party guests, the sloth


would be delighted to


see two of his closest

relatives, the anteater


and the armadillo.











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And last, to make a sloth feel welcome, the most

important thing to have at your party is a nice,


sturdy branch. A sloth will insist on the longest


branch you can find. This way, everyone can hang


out with him. What a party!


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Look and Look Again Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc. ⋆ Food art by Amy De Lay
TASTY









































































































How are these pictures the same?









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ROBOTS











































































































How are they different?







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That’s Silly! Art by Julissa Mora





Bookstore Bro













































































































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What silly things do you see?










































































































HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE 19

Nonfiction










Leopards have


a lot of spots.

































But zebras


don’t have any.









Spots and
D s















By Heidi Bee Roemer






















Ladybugs have spots and dots.


Dalmatian dogs have many.




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Freckles are a kind of dot.



They’re covering my nose.








































































































Call them freckles, dots, or spots—




I’ve lots and lots of those!



HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE 21

English and Spanish







So Many










Questions!

















By Ana Galán ⋆ Art by Francesca Assirelli ⋆ Spanish pronunciation by Linda Elman, Ph.D.










Lola Chick looked out the window and sighed.


The rain kept coming down.


“Lola Chick, would you like to go somewhere


special?” asked Grandma Hen.

“¿Dónde?” asked Lola Chick.


“The bowling alley!” said Grandma Hen.


“¿Cuándo?” asked Lola Chick.


“We can go now,” said Grandma Hen.













¿Dónde? ¿Cuándo?

DOHN-deh KWAHN-doh

Where? When?
















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“You may invite two friends,”

said Grandma Hen.


Lola Chick phoned her friends


Rabbit and Duck. ¿Cómo vamos?


After they arrived, Lola Chick KOH-moh VAH-mohss

looked at her grandma. “¿Cómo How do we go there?


vamos?” she asked.


“We can take the bus,” said


Grandma Hen.

















































































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At the bowling alley, Grandma Hen got


them all shoes and bowling balls.


Lola Chick held a ball. “¿Cómo?” ¿Cómo?
KOH-moh
“You bowl like this!” Grandma Hen rolled How?

her ball down the lane. All the pins fell over.


“And that’s a strike!”






HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE 25

Poem Puzzle







Bears on








a Roll!











By Heidi Bee Roemer Art by Josh Cleland





Beepity-beep!


Three bears in a jeep.


And where do you think they’re going?




In bags they haul


big, heavy balls—


Of course! They’re going bowling!













How many B’s can



you find?






What do you see


that begins with



the B sound?


















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HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE 27

Graphic Story











A SURPRISE FOR ANNABELLE






By Gretchen M. Everin ⋆ Art by Jannie Ho































































































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Recipe By Bonnie Baker Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.








The
The








B r eakf a s


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DOG
DOG























You Need






+ + + + +





yogurt nut butter hot-dog bun banana berries granola












Show us your breakfast dogs!









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1 2 3

Spread.
Cut.
Sprinkle.



Spread the yogurt Cut the banana in half Sprinkle berries

and nut butter on the lengthwise and place and granola over

hot-dog bun. into the bun. the banana.





HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE 31

Craft


Build a

Build a


Birthday
Birthday








Cake

Cake





































































You Need Scissors



Tape Paper straws
Cardboard
Glue
boxes Ribbons

Paint Pompoms

Paintbrush Confetti

By Lisa Glover Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.



































1 2 Paint. 3

Cut.
Tape.





Tape the boxes On a covered To make candles:

together. surface, decorate Cut the straws in half.

with paint. Let dry. Glue a pompom on

top of each half.


4 Glue.








Glue

ribbons,

pompoms,

confetti,

and the

candles to
the cake.


























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Move It! By Barbara L. Scanlan Art by Mitch Mortimer Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.











































Some monsters stomp
u .

Some monsters walk on two feet.






M nster MP
















































Some monsters swoosh their tails.

This monster likes to ROAR!





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Whoops!
Art by Natascha Rosenberg






Big W heels













Unicycle Bicycle













































Octo-cycle?
Tricycle WHOOPS!












































HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE 35

Your High Five!
Which


animal has


Andi, age 3,
California (craft from a trunk?
September 2019)


















Everett, age 3,
Colorado (recipe
from August 2019)















Lilah, age 4,
New York (craft
from August 2019)














Look for the hidden
Isaiah, age 4,
Minnesota (recipe “Smiling ” on the
from July 2019)
front cover.



You found me!






Photo Credits: Page 20: (leopard) iStock/Getty Images Plus/GlobalP, (zebra) E+/Getty Images/Freder, (dog) iStock/Getty Images Plus/MirasWonderland, (ladybugs) E+/Getty Images/Antagain; 21: Photographer’s Choice/
Getty Images/Marcus Lyon; 30: (yogurt) iStock/Getty Images Plus/serezniy, (nut butter) iStock/Getty Images Plus/Magone, (hot-dog bun) iStock/Getty Images Plus/karandaev, (banana) iStock/Getty Images Plus/
ChubarovY, (berries) iStock/Getty Images Plus/Zakharova_Natalia, (granola) E+/Getty Images/Alina555