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Dear Readers
Highlights High Five
Joy in Food Volume 16  Number 3  Issue No. 183

Editor in Chief, Chief Purpose Officer:

Every so often, my daughter decides she doesn’t like a certain
food. She may have been eating it for weeks beforehand. She
may even have said it was her favorite food. And then, out of
the blue, it’s out of style, and I have no idea why.
Nearly every parent I know has faced some challenge
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 2022!

March
Reading Activities
4 Verse Ready 30 Craft Buzzing Bright Bees
5 The Adventures of Spot 32 Move It! Hero Moves
Spot the Copycat
34 Recipe Animal Toasts
6 Tex and Indi Tex’s Bad Dream

12 Nonfiction Animal Homes

Join the fun!
20 Fiction HighlightsForChildren
Snowman Hand-Me-Downs
HighlightsForChildren
26 English and Spanish Highlights
Sorting Socks

Puzzles
10 My First Hidden Pictures
A Busy Morning

16 Look and Look Again

So Many Things to Do

18 That’s Silly! Let’s Fly a Kite

24 Poem Puzzle Big and Little

36 Back Cover PB&J Maze

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 Verse By Eileen Spinelli ⋆ Art by Cory Reid

Ready
I’ve built a birdhouse, little bird.
Set out the birdbath too.
The feeder’s full and waiting
For spring to come
And you!

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 The Adventures of Spot

SPOT THE COPYCAT Episode #183

By Cheryl Solimini ⋆ Art by Ron Zalme

Splinter stretches. Spot stretches.

Splinter plays. Spot plays.

Splinter jumps. How does Splinter do that?

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Tex and Indi

Tex’s Bad
Dream
By Lissa Rovetch ⋆ Art by Deborah Melmon

After a great day at Aunt Jen’s farm,

it was time for Tex, Indi, and their family
to go home.
“I love all of you goats so much,” said
Tex. “I wish we could take you home
with us!”
“Hmm,” said Aunt Jen. “I’m not so
sure how much these guys would like
living near a lot of traffic.”
“Tex,” said Mom. “It’s time to go!”
“Okay,” said Tex. “See you next time,
silly goats!”

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7
 That night, Tex
dreamed that he
was so busy feeding
the goats that he
didn’t hear his
family leave in their
car. He was left by
himself at the farm!

“Mommy, mommy!”
he called. “I had a
scary dream that I
was left behind at the
farm, and now I can’t
sleep!”

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 “That does sound like a scary dream,” Mom said.
“But we would never ever forget you!”
“Do you promise?” asked Tex.
“I promise,” said Mom. Then she sang a cozy
lullaby, and Tex drifted happily off to sleep.

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 My First

A Busy Morning
Lollipop Croissant Rain Boot Mug Cucumber
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 Art by Violet Lemay

Find the objects hidden in the picture!

Look for
this potato
on the back
cover!
Fish Butterfly Doughnut Potato
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 Nonfiction

Animal
By Andrea Silen

HOMES
People often build houses or tall buildings
to live in. Wild animals build homes too!

Prairie dogs dig homes deep in

Ruff!
the ground. These homes, called They
burrows, have many small spaces bark!
for eating and sleeping. The spaces
are connected by tunnels.

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 rs
Busy buzze

Some honeybees live in tree hollows. Their

bodies create wax. The bees chew on the wax until
it’s soft. They use the wax to build a nest.

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 I love my lodge!

The entra
n
underwate ce to a lodge is
A beaver’s home is called a lodge. swim to ge r. A beaver must
t inside!
Beavers build lodges on streams
and creeks. To make a lodge, beavers
stack logs, sticks, and rocks. Beavers
add mud to hold everything in place.

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 Weaver ants live in trees. They make nests
out of tree leaves. First, weaver ants work as
a team to gather leaves. Then they bind the
leaves with a sticky silk.

Masterpiece!

If you were a wild animal, what

kind of home would you build?

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 Look and Look Again Art by Beatrice Tinarelli

SO MANY

How are these pictures the same?

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THINGS TO DO

How are they different?

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 That’s Silly! Art by Katie McDee

Let’s Fly a

18
Kite What silly things do you see?

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 Fiction

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 By Lynne Marie ⋆ Art by Kate Kronreif

Snowman
Hand-Me-Downs
It was finally spring! Madison pulled on
her boots and went outside. Before she got
too far, she spotted something.
“Oh no,” said Madison. “My snowman
melted!”
“Time for a spring cleanup!” said Mom.
Madison looked down at the twigs, carrot,
and scarf. “What can I do with these?”

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 Just then, two birds flew past Madison and landed
in a tree.
“I know!” said Madison. She broke the twigs into
small pieces and put them next to the tree. “These
are for your nest, birdies,” said Madison.

Then she noticed

the bushes move, and
a rabbit hopped out.
“Here, you can
have this carrot,”
said Madison. “Now
all that’s left is this
scarf.”
 Madison went inside. Her cat brushed against her leg. “I
know! I can put this scarf in your box for when your kittens
come.” She spread the scarf in her kitty’s bed.
“How is your spring cleanup?” asked Mom.
“Great!” said Madison. “My snowman had lots of hand-
me-downs.”

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 Poem Puzzle

BIG
AND LITTLE
By Sheri Delgado-Preston ⋆ Art by Courtney Dawson

My kitten thinks
My bed is his.
He is on it
All the time.
So I curled up
On his cushion,
And pretended
It was mine!

Look for big things

and little things.
What else do
you see?

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HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE ⋆ MARCH 2022 25
 English and Spanish

Sorting
Socks
By Ana Galán ⋆ Art by Francesca Assirelli ⋆ Pronunciation by Linda Elman, Ph.D.

Lola Chick was helping Grandma

Hen with the laundry. Lola Chick loved
sorting socks by color.
“Dos calcetines amarillos,” she said,
putting two yellow socks together.
“Dos calcetines verdes,” she said,
pairing two green socks.

Dos calcetines amarillos.

DOHSS kahl-seh-TEE-nehss
ah-mah-REE-yohss
Two yellow socks.

Dos calcetines verdes.

DOHSS kahl-seh-TEE-nehss
BEHR-dehss
Two green socks.

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HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE  MARCH 2022 27
 Lola Chick pulled two red socks
from the basket.
“Dos calcetines rojos,” she said.
But then she noticed that the red
socks had two big holes!
“¡Mira!” she said, showing the
socks to Grandma Hen.
“Oh my,” said Grandma Hen.
“Those socks are beyond repair.”

Dos calcetines rojos.

DOHSS kahl-seh-TEE-nehss
ROH-hohss
Two red socks.

¡Mira!
MEE-rah
Look!

“Tengo una idea,” said

Lola Chick.
Lola Chick went to her
room. She grabbed a black
marker and drew two big
eyes on each sock. Then
she put one sock on each
hand and went back to
Grandma Hen.

Tengo una idea.

TENG-oh oo-nah
ee-DAY-ah
I have an idea.
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 “¡Mira!” she said.
“You made sock puppets!” said Grandma
Hen. “What a great idea!”
After Lola Chick and Grandma Hen finished
sorting the laundry, Lola Chick put on the best
puppet show ever.

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 Craft By Amanda Kingloff  Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

uzzing
B
B right
B EES You Need:
⋆
⋆
⋆
Egg carton
Scissors
Glue
⋆ Paint
⋆ Paintbrush
⋆ Pencil
⋆ Twist tie
⋆ Bubble wrapping

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Before you begin Adult: Cut the egg carton into sections. Glue two cups together.

1 Paint. 2 Paint.
Paint the bee’s body Paint stripes on the body.
yellow. Let dry. Paint eyes and a mouth.
Let dry.

3 Poke.
Use a pencil to poke a hole
above the bee’s face. Bend a
twist tie into a V. Stick the pointed
end of the V into the hole.
4 Cut.
Cut four teardrop shapes
from bubble wrapping. Glue
two on each side of the bee.
Where will your bee fly?

Send us a photo of your bumblebee at Highlights.com/HighFive.

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 Move It! By Madison Gepper  Art by Marina Verola

H
He
er
ro
o

s like to s tand tall . Superheroes are brave and strong.

S u p e r h e ro e

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 M
Mo
ov
ve
es
s
)
umpt y Dumpt y”
(To the tune of “H

f ly f a r away.
And when they ’re al their p o we r s t o
e
l Th ey u s
finished saving the
da y,

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

FISH
arrots
C

ve
Oli

pper
d pe
Re
Sprea
d
ched able
da
chee r
se

Use a base of toast and spreadable cheese.

ANIMAL
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 OWL Black be
ans

iled
r d -bo
Ha s
egg

Green bean
(beak)

be rs
Cucum

Spreada
b
cheese le
Carr
ots

Add veggies to create your favorite animal.

TOASTS What animal will you make? Highlights.com/HighFive

Your High Five! Jelly is in a jam!
Help her get
to her friend
Peanut Butter.

Jack, age 5, Florida (craft Anna, age 5, California

from October 2021) (craft from October 2021)

Look for the hidden

“Smiling ” on the
Ella, Ava, Dillon, age 6, Texas (recipe from October 2021)
front cover.
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the potato
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