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

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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!

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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
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 th
e
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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 Art by Alex Willmore Whoops!

Colorful Crayons

Blue Crayon Red Crayon

Yellow Crayon Carrot Crayon?

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 Poem Puzzle

Counting
Matryoshki
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!
ell-LAH-doh pah-rah TOH-dahss
flocked to her.
Ice cream for all!
“Ice cream!” screamed Lucy.
“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 i g 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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 Recipe By Pat Tanumihardja  Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

Tasty
Popcorn

Yummy!
this: Dip in ketchup
Try .
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
Athletic Tape Duct Tape Tape
and Washi Tape
Wrapped and and
and
Overlapped Masking Washi Tape
Tape Mixed Electrical
Woven Textures Tape
Overlapped

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 Washi Tape
Washi Tape Diagonal
Mixed Patterns Athletic Tape
Ruffled Patterns

y o u r fa vo r it e let t er ?
What’s
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 Your High Five !
Can you help
George, age 4,
New Jersey (craft
Max find Buddy?
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.
g, but
I was hidin
me!
you found
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