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Embrace the Music
I recently played Raffi’s “Down by the Bay” for my young daughter. The pick was a
nostalgic one for me, but we both enjoyed moving to the music.
We’ve included a lot of musical features this month. In the English/Spanish story, “Let’s
Make Music” (pages 20–23), a new guitar inspires friends to make maracas so they can all
jam together. Kitchen items turn into instruments in the poem puzzle “Kitchen Rock ’n’
Roll” (pages 16–17). The craft, “Paper Cup Drums” (pages 34–35), merges music with a bit
of science—how does the sound change if the cups are big or little, full size or cut in half?
Whether you sing or play an instrument, have fun making music this month!
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Reading Puzzles Activities
4 I’m a Slug 10 Hello, Spring! 30 Maple-Sesame
A poem A My First Hidden Sweet Potatoes
Pictures™ Puzzle A fresh recipe with a twist
5 The Adventures
of Spot ™ 16 Kitchen 32 Flop, Hop,
Spot entertains himself. Rock ’n’ Roll and Stop
6 Different Kinds A poem puzzle An action rhyme
of Twins 18 The Silliest Ways 34 Paper Cup Drums
A Tex and Indi™ story to Get Around A musical craft
A That’s Silly!™ puzzle
12 Making Syrup
How syrup travels from 24 Spring Is Here!
the tree to the table A Look and Look Again™
puzzle
20 Let’s Make
Music 36 Back Cover Puzzles
An English/Spanish Breakfast Puzzle!
story with Doña Rosa Look for Us Inside
26 Our Little
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Saying good-bye to a
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Reading
I’m a Slug
By Barbara Skalak • Art by Mitch Mortimer
I’m a slug, not a bug—
I leave a trail of slime.
When it’s wet and rainy,
that’s my favorite time.
You’ll see me on the sidewalk
or in the garden bed.
To find my way around,
I use feelers on my head.
4 March 2019
Reading
By Marileta Robinson • Art by Ron Zalme
Spot wants to play. But everyone is busy.
Spot has an idea. He hits the ball.
He chases the ball. Spot can play all day!
March 2019 5
Reading
Different Kinds of Twins
By Lissa Rovetch • Art by Amy Wummer
Tex and Indi
“Welcome to karate, Little Dragons!” said
Mr. Jax. “We’ll be learning some new moves
today, so watch closely.”
Indi tried to watch Mr. Jax, but she was
distracted by the two girls in front of her.
They looked exactly the same.
6 March 2019
After class, Indi introduced herself to the girls.
“Wow, you must be twins!” she said.
“Yes, we’re identical twins,” said one of the girls.
“I’m Casey. This is Lucy.”
“Neat,” said Indi. “My brother and I are twins too!”
March 2019 7
“You can’t be twins,” said Miles. “Tex doesn’t
look like you, Indi.”
“Only identical twins look alike,” said Lucy.
“But there are lots of twins who look different.”
8 March 2019
“If you have the same mom and you were born
on the same day, then you’re twins,” said Tex.
“Tyler and I don’t have the same mom,” said Eli.
“But we pretend we’re twins because we both like
to build stuff and tell jokes. Plus, we have the exact
same shoes!”
“Wow,” said Miles. “I never knew there were so
many kinds of twins!”
March 2019 9
Puzzle
My First
Hello, Puzzle
Spring! Find these objects hidden
in the big picture.
By Dianne Moritz
Button Nail Slice of
Warm winds blow. Watermelon
No more snow.
Bunnies hop.
Flowers pop.
Birdies sing. Bell Envelope Banana
Hello, spring!
Paper Clip Heart Lollipop
10 March 2019
Art by Julissa Mora
March 2019 11
Reading
Making Syrup
By Christina Geer
At the end of winter, when the nights are
cold and the days begin to warm, it is time to
tap our maple tree. Photo by Mint Images RF/Getty Images/Tim Pannell
Mom drills a hole into the tree for the
shiny silver spile.
12 March 2019
The sap begins to drip I catch a clear drop on
like a leaky faucet. We my fingertip. It looks like
hang a bucket underneath water and tastes only a
the spile to catch the sap. tiny bit sweet.
When the nights
turn warmer, the
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drips stop. We take
the spile out and
put it away for
next year. Fresh
bark will grow
over the hole.
Sap!
March 2019 13
Gooey!
Mom pours all the sap
we collected into a big pot
over a fire. The sap boils all
day long, until it is almost
gone. The air smells sweet. Photos: (top) by E+/Getty Images/lisegagne, (bottom) by Moment/Getty Images/Anik Messier
The sap turns thick and
golden brown.
Watch maple syrup being made at HighlightsKids.com/maple-syrup.
14 March 2019
Mom ladles the
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syrup out of the
big pot and into
one small jar.
Our own maple
syrup, from our
backyard. Yum!
Tasty!
March 2019 15
Puzzle
Kitchen Rock ’n’ Roll
By Jana Locke • Art by Nila Aye
Some wooden spoons, a big blue bowl,
Let’s play some kitchen rock ’n’ roll.
You clang the pans, I’ll rattle rice.
Let’s mix our sounds and add some spice.
The cups go clink, the dishes clack.
Let’s take a break and eat a snack.
16 March 2019
Look for round shapes
in the picture.
What sounds do you hear
in your kitchen?
March 2019 17
Puzzle
hat’s Silly! TM
Art by Josh Cleland
18 March 2019
What
silly things
do you see?
March 2019 19
Read Aloud in English and Spanish
Let’s
Make
Music
By Ana Galán • Art by Violet Lemay
“Look at what I
brought,” said Mary
when she arrived at
Doña Rosa’s house.
“¡Una guitarra!”
said Doña Rosa.
Mary strummed
a few chords.
“I wish I had
an instrument
so we could play
together,” said Lucy.
Doña Rosa ¡Una guitarra! ¡Podemos hacer maracas!
DOHN-yah ROH-sah OO-nah gee-TAHR-rah poh-DEH-mohs ah-SEHR mah-RAH-kahs
Doña Rosa A guitar! We can make maracas!
20 March 2019
“¡Podemos hacer maracas!”
said Doña Rosa.
“How do we make maracas?”
asked Lucy.
Doña Rosa led Lucy and Mary
to the kitchen. “Necesitamos
cucharas de plástico,” she said.
“Here are the plastic spoons,” said
Mary. “What else do we need?”
Doña Rosa opened a
drawer. “Necesitamos
huevos de plástico.”
“Here are the plastic
eggs,” said Lucy. “What else
do we need?”
Necesitamos cucharas de plástico. . . . huevos de plástico.
neh-seh-see-TAH-mohs koo-CHAH-rahz deh PLAHSS-tee-koh ... WEH-vohz deh PLAHSS-tee-koh
We need plastic spoons. . . . plastic eggs.
Spanish pronunciation by Linda Elman, Ph.D.
March 2019 21
“Necesitamos
arroz.” Doña Rosa
set out a bag of rice.
Doña Rosa, Mary,
and Lucy spooned
rice into the plastic
eggs. Then they
placed two spoons
around each egg and
taped them together.
22 March 2019
“We did it! We made maracas,” said Lucy.
“Let’s play together,” said Mary.
“¡Sí, podemos hacer música!” said Doña Rosa.
And the friends spent the afternoon singing and
playing instruments.
Necesitamos arroz. ¡Sí, podemos hacer música!
neh-seh-see-TAH-mohs ah-ROSE SEE poh-DEH-mohs ah-SEHR MOO-see-kah
We need rice. Yes, we can make music!
March 2019 23
Puzzle
Spring Is Here!
Art by Jannie Ho
How are these pictures the same?
24 March 2019
Look and
Look Again
How are they different?
March 2019 25
Reading
Our Little Blue Car
By Christine Bernardi • Art by Shahar Kober
Grandpa is giving us his big red car. Mom says we’ll
give our little blue car to another family. I feel sad.
Our little blue car is special.
Once, I found a nickel under a mat. “What if one of
my toys is lost under the seat?” I ask Mom.
“You can check under all the seats,” she says.
I find another nickel. “Nothing else under there.”
26 March 2019
Mom has an idea. We take our little blue car to the
car wash. Inside the car wash, we find a place to sit.
Mom says, “Wait for a surprise.”
Here comes our little blue car! It is getting a shower.
We take our clean little blue car home.
March 2019 27
“Our car is ready for its new family,” Mom says.
I hide the nickel under the seat.
“Don’t you want to put the nickel in your bank?” Mom asks.
“The nickel is for the new family to find,” I tell her.
I say good-bye to our car.
28 March 2019
Mom says we will have lots more
adventures in our new red car.
Our little blue car will have lots
more adventures too.
March 2019 29
Activity
Maple-Sesame
By Hannah Bersee • Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.
Before
You
Begin
Wash your
hands.
You Need
• 2 medium-sized
sweet potatoes
• ¼ cup vanilla
almond milk
Background by iStock/Getty Images Plus/belchonock
• ¼ cup maple syrup
• ½ teaspoon tahini
(sesame seed paste)
• ¼ teaspoon salt
30 March 2019
Sweet Potatoes
1. Mash
the sweet
potatoes
until soft.
Adult: Wash, peel, and dice the sweet
potatoes. In a large pot, cook potatoes
in boiling water until soft, then drain.
Transfer potatoes to a large bowl and
let cool.
2. Add the 3. Sprinkle
almond milk, with salt.
maple syrup,
and tahini.
Stir until
combined.
Learn how maple syrup is made (pages 12–15)!
March 2019 31
Activity
Flop, Hop,
By Nancy Klein • Art by Sophie Foster
1. Twist and turn. 2. Stretch . . . 3. then flop.
32 March 2019
and Stop
4. Creep and crawl. 5. Hop . . . 6. then stop!
March 2019 33
p
Act s
You Need
• Scissors
• 2 large
paper cups
• 2 small
paper cups
• Markers
• Glue
• Cardboard
• Plastic spoons
Art by DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images/LokFung
1. Cut off the top
half of one large cup
and one small cup.
2. Decorate each cup. 4. Tap the rim of each cup with
the spoons. What do you hear?
Add more
cups to
make more
music!
3. Glue the cups
to the cardboard.
Let dry.
Read about other kitchen sounds on page 16. arch 2019 35
Breakfast Puzzle!
What is missing in
the patterns?
B
A
?
C D
Look for these pictures
inside the magazine.
A. page 24 B. page 32 C. page 17 D. page 11
?
Look for the hidden “Smiling ”
on the front cover.
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