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What items
help Herman
Grace, age 4,
Illinois (craft from
clean his teeth?
October 2019)

Sacha, age 4,
Quebec, Canada
(recipe from
August 2019)

Dylan, age 5,
New Jersey (recipe
from April 2019)

Look for the hidden

“Smiling ” on the
Taylor, age 5,
Georgia (recipe from front cover.
November 2019)

the ball!
You found

Photo credits: Pages 13–15 (clay circles) iStock/Getty Images Plus/bellanatella

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Float
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Let’s Smile!
Find this hidden
heart!
Pages 10–11
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May
Reading Activities
4 Verse I Made It Myself 12 Craft Can You Make It Float?

5 The Adventures of Spot 32 Recipe Mama Waffles

The Broken Leash
35 Move It! Tape Jump
6 Tex and Indi Run for Fun

20 Fiction A Stoplight Song Join the fun!

HighlightsForChildren
26 English and Spanish
Juan and Bebo: The Dollar Dilemma HighlightsForChildren
Highlights
30 Graphic Story Secret Pancake Mission

Puzzles
10 My First Hidden Pictures
Springtime Flowers

16 Look and Look Again Things Wyatt Like

18 That’s Silly! A Carnival Adventure

24 Poem Puzzle Riley Likes Rocks

34 Whoops! Hello, Bees

36 Back Cover Herman’s Clean Teeth

 Verse

I Made It Myself
By Linda Dryfhout ⋆ Art by Lesley Breen Withrow

Wrapping paper,
tape, and string.
Do you like my
dress for spring?

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 The Adventures of Spot

THE BROKEN LEASH Episode #161

By Marileta Robinson  Art by Ron Zalme

Spot chews socks. He chews shoes.

He chews hats. He chews everything.

“Oh, Spot! You chewed your leash!” “Don’t worry. Pa can fix it.”

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Tex and Indi

Run for Fun By Lissa Rovetch ⋆ Art by Amy Wummer

Tex and Indi and their family were walking through

Golden Gate Park.
“Whoa,” said Indi. “Look at all those people running.”
“A bunch of them are wearing costumes,” said Tex.
“What are they doing?” asked their sister, Arizona.
“They’re running the Bay to Breakers race,” said Dad.
“It happens every year in San Francisco.”

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 “I can run fast,” said Indi. “Count how many seconds it
takes me to get to that tree.”
“One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi,”
Tex counted as Indi ran. “Twenty-five seconds!”
“Did you see that squirrel running next to me?” asked
Indi. “He was racing too!”

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 Next, Tex ran while Indi counted.
“Twenty-five seconds,” said Indi. “It’s a tie!”
“A triple tie,” said Tex. “That little squirrel was
running with me too.”

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“Maybe next year we can all run the race,” said Mom.
“Awesome!” said Arizona. “But what should we dress up as?”
Just then, the squirrel ran around in circles in front of them.
“Squirrels!” said the whole family, laughing.
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 My First

Springtime Flowers
Book Toothbrush Crayon Lollipop Heart

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 Art by Rob McClurkan

Find the objects hidden in the picture!

Can you find

this ball on
the back
Rolling Pin Envelope Pizza Basketball cover?

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 Craft By Margaret A. Powers  Samples by Kimberly Stoney  Photos by Andrea Killam

CAN YOU MAKE Rowboats float.

Kayaks float. Ships float too.
Lightweight materials, such as
wood and plastic, help boats
to float. Many boats have a
base, sides, and sails.
Now it’s your turn to be
an engineer.
What kind of floating
boat will you build?

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IT FLOAT? Ready
Pick your
materials.

Bases Adhesives Add-Ons

 Containers  Tape  Paper straws
 Lids  Clay  Paper
 Craft sticks  Glue  Tape
 Craft foam  Aluminum foil
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 Set
Start
building!

1 Choose. 2 Create.
Choose a base for your boat. Create and add details to
your base.

3 Attach. 4 Test.
Use adhesives to attach sides, Test your boat on the water!
a sail, or other add-ons. Does it float?

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 Invent
What
did you Veve
Ahoy th
here! make? (age 6)

Zoey
(age 4)
Foam m
rafftss
withh
tapee

Sail made
with paper
and tape

Lucas Bodhi
(age 5) (age 5)

Lid from peanut

butter jar

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 Look and Look Again Art by Daniel Wiseman

pictures the same?

How are these
16 HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE  MAY 2020
How are they different
?
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 That’s Silly! Art by Tim Wesson

A Carnival

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 What silly
things do

Adventure you see?

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 Fiction

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 A
Stoplight
Song
By Melissa Koosmann  Art by Matt Robertson

Red light. Work site!

Builders climb to dizzy heights.
One looks down and waves hello.
Green light. Gotta go!

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 Red light. On the right,
a truck is stuck, its wheels caught tight.
Help arrives to give a tow.
Green light. Gotta go!

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Red lights. Endless sights.
Zooming cars and soaring kites!
Can’t stay long to watch the show.
Green light. Gotta go!

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 Poem Puzzle

Riley Likes
Rocks
By Barbara L. Scanlan ⋆ Art by Lila Kalogeri

Riley is a rock hound. She really likes rocks.

She digs up her treasures to put into a box.

Her favorite ones are smooth and shiny.

Some are big. Others are tiny.

The colorful rocks, red, green, and blue,

she puts on display with a dab of glue.

Of the many things on her “grown-up” list,

one of them is a geologist!

How many R’s do you see?

What colors are the rocks?
What else do you see?

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 English and Spanish

The Dollar By Ana Galán ⋆ Art by Roberta Angaramo ⋆ Spanish pronunciation by Linda Elman, Ph.D.

Juan was so excited. His mom had given him one dollar.
He showed the bill to Bebo.
“One dollar!” said Bebo. “What are you going to do with it?”
“No sé,” said Juan.
No sé.
NO seh
I don’t know.

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Dilemma
They started walking down the street and saw an ice-cream truck.
“You could buy an ice cream,” said Bebo.
“¿Cuánto cuestan dos helados?” Juan asked the vendor.
“Four dollars,” said the vendor.
Juan didn’t have four dollars, so he and Bebo kept walking.

¿Cuánto cuestan dos helados?

KWAN-toh KWEHSS-tahn DOHSS eh-LAH-dohss
How much are two ice creams?
 They went into a toy store.
“You could buy a ball and we could play,”
suggested Bebo.
“¿Cuánto cuesta esta pelota?” asked Juan.
“Two dollars,” said the storekeeper.
Juan sighed.

¿Cuánto cuesta esta pelota?

KWAN-toh KWEHSS-tah EHS-tah peh-LOH-tah
How much is this ball?

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 The friends went back to Juan’s apartment.
“What are you going to do now?” asked Bebo.
“¡Puedo ahorrar!” said Juan. And he put his dollar
into his piggy bank.
“Good idea,” said Bebo. “Now let’s go play.”

¡Puedo ahorrar!
PWEH-do ah-oh-RRAHR
I can save!

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 Graphic Story

SECRET PANCAKE MISSION By Cara Krenn  Art by Jannie Ho

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

Mama
Peanut butter,
banana, and
blueberries

Nutella, strawberry,
and whipped cream

Send us a photo
of your waffles!
highlights.com/HighFive

Apple and
cheddar cheese
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Waffles What waffles
will you make for
Grapes, Mother’s Day?
chicken
nugget,
and syrup

Mint,
cantaloupe,
and ham

Pear, bacon,
and honey

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 Whoops! Art by Anna Süßbauer

Hello, Bees Drone Bee Worker Bee

Queen Bee Bear Bee?

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Move It! Photo by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

pe Jump
Ta
Place two
strips of tape
on the floor.
Jump across.

How far
can you
jump?

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