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Dear Readers
Highlights High Five
Nurturing Optimism Volume 15  Number 6  Issue No. 174

Editor in Chief, Chief Purpose Officer:

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Reading Activities
4 Verse Thank You, Daddy! 30 Craft Super Spaceship

5 The Adventures of Spot 32 Recipe Rainbow Pizza

Night Cat
34 Move It! Lava Jump
6 Tex and Indi Playing Catch

12 Nonfiction Animal Rainbow Bonus Pages

20 Fiction Fishing with Grandpa
Dinosaurs
26 English and Spanish A High Five Mini-Book
Eating an Arco Iris ,
We re Here for You
The past year has brought many changes and
challenges. You can find ideas, tips, and things to do
on our YouTube channels and on HighlightsKids.com.
Puzzles , ,
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Write to us at eds@highlights.com.

10 My First Hidden Pictures

Time for a Carnival Join the fun!
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16 Poem Puzzle Sandy Sam
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18 That’s Silly! Highli
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At the Petting Zoo

24 Look and Look Again

Robot’s Birthday Friends
Are Here!

35 Whoops! Feathered Friends

36 Back Cover Match the Pairs

 Verse By Heidi Bee Roemer

Thank You,
Daddy!
For a better egg-caregiver
I could never ever beg.
While Mom was gone, you kept me warm
when I was in my egg.

You didn’t eat. Got little sleep

for months! How did you stand it?
So, as your chick, you’d be my pick
for Best Dad on the Planet!

The emp
eror
penguin
is the on
penguin ly
species i
which th n
e father
incubate
s the egg
.

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 The Adventures of Spot

NIGHT CAT Episode #174

By Marileta Robinson  Art by Ron Zalme

Everyone’s asleep . . . . . . except Splinter.

She chases a button. She climbs a couch.

She jumps over a table. Why is Splinter tired this morning?

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Tex and Indi

Playing
Catch
By Lissa Rovetch  Art by Deborah Melmon

Tex was so excited to play catch in

his best friend’s backyard.
“Hi,” said Niko. “How come your
baseball mitt is so big?”
“I couldn’t find mine,” said Tex. “I’m
borrowing my dad’s.”
“It’s kind of gigantic,” said Niko. “Are
you sure you can catch with it?”
“Sure, I’m sure!” said Tex.

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 But when Tex tried to catch the ball, the mitt slipped
right off his hand, and the ball bounced right into
Rosie’s mouth.
“Here, Rosie!” called out Niko. “Give us back our ball!”

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 But Rosie didn’t feel like giving back the ball. Rosie felt
like playing chase! She ran in speedy loops all over the
yard, and the boys ran in speedy loops trying to catch her.

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 At last, when they finally caught up to Rosie, the boys
laughed and laughed and laughed.
“We started out playing catch the ball,” giggled Tex, “and
we ended up playing catch the dog!”

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 My First

arnival
TIME FOR A

Ruler Heart Muffin Banana Golf Club

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 Art by Jannie Ho

Find the objects hidden in the picture!

Can you find

this comb
on the back
cover?
Cane Button Pizza Comb
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 Nonfiction

Animal
Red is a crab scuttling by.

Orange is a fluttering
monarch butterfly.
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Yellow is a fish swimming in the sea.

Rainbo

Green is a snake coiled around a tree.

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 Blue is a peacock with feathers opened wide.

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 Purple is a sea star
waiting for the tide.

White is a bunny
tail fluffy as snow.

Animals all together make an animal rainbow!

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 Poem Puzzle

Sandy
Sam
By Rikki B. Romerez  Art by Dean MacAdam

There’s sand on Sam’s nose

and between all his toes.
There’s sand on his collar and leash.

Wherever he stands,
there’s a pile of sand—
I think Sam brought home half the beach!

Look for the letter S

in the picture.
What else do you
see?

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 That’s Silly! Art by Violet Lemay

At the Pett

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 What silly

ing Zoo things do

you see?

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 Fiction

Fıshı
By Catherine Edmunds ⋆ Art by Ana Zurita

with Grandpa

20
 When I go fishing with Grandpa, we put my life jacket
on tight before we leave the dock.
We slowly motor out of the boat slip to the wide-open bay.
We pass seagulls perched on floating buoys, and I wave
as we go by.
When we hit the open water, Grandpa cranks up the
speed. Then we really start to fly!

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 We motor to the best
fishing spots that only
Grandpa knows.
Grandpa baits our hooks
with worms and rigs a
sinker on the line.

We drop our lines into the water until they hit the
bottom. We wait for the fish to bite.
When we see the bobber bounce, Grandpa shouts,
“You got a bite!”

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 I reel the fish in as fast as I can, and Grandpa scoops
it up with a net.
Grandpa unhooks the fish, and I blow it a kiss. We
return it to the water. When it swims away, we say, “We
will catch you again next time!”

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 Look and Look Again Art by Katya Reyda

Robot’s Birthday

e these pictures the same?

How ar
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Friends Are Here!

How are they different?

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 English and Spanish

Eating an By Jessica Kautz  Art by Jaclyn Sinquett  Pronunciation by Linda Elman, Ph.D.

Miguel loved foods that were amarillo. Bananas.

Quesadillas. Yum! But other colors? No, thank you.
One day, Mama said, “Amarillo is nice, but this week, we’re
going to try to eat an arco iris!”
Miguel didn’t like new foods, but he did like rainbows. He
decided to give it a try.

arco iris amarillo

AHR-koh EE-reess ah-mah-REE-yoh
rainbow yellow

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rojo Monday was rojo. Miguel ate
ROH-hoh
strawberries at breakfast, nibbled
red
on a tomato slice at lunch, and ate
watermelon with dinner.
naranja
Tuesday was naranja. Miguel
nah-RAHN-hah
orange sampled orange juice, sliced carrots,
and sweet-potato tots.
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 verde Wednesday was amarillo—but
BEHR-deh there were new yellow foods:
green corn on the cob, pineapple, and
yellow apples.
Thursday was verde: green bell
azul
ah-SOOL pepper, kale chips, and buttery
blue peas.
Friday was azul and morado.
morado
Blueberries and grapes and fried
moh-RAH-doh eggplant were on the menu.
purple

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 On Saturday, Miguel proposed a feast.
“Let’s eat the whole rainbow today!”
And the family did.
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 Craft By Amanda Kingloff � Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

up er
S ceship
Spa

1 Decorate. 2 Cut.
Decorate a cardboard Cut two right triangles for
tube. We used paper and the wings. Cut a partial
a marker. You might use circle.
stickers or paint.
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 You Need:
⋆ Cardboard tube
⋆ Colored paper
⋆ Marker
⋆ Tape
⋆ Scissors
⋆ Tissue paper

Show us your spaceship at Highlights.com/HighFive.

3 Tape. 4 Snip.
Fold one side of the triangle. Layer tissue paper. Pinch
Tape it to the bottom of the it near the top and tape it.
tube. Wrap the partial circle into Snip the ends, then crumple.
a cone and tape to the top. Tape inside the tube.

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

Rainbow
Pizza

You Need
Vegetables � Pizza crust � Pizza sauce � Mozzarella cheese
 Before You Begin Adult: Preheat oven to 450°F. Chop vegetables.

1 Prep. 2 Spread.
Set out your favorite Spread the sauce on the
colorful veggies. pizza crust.

3 Sprinkle. 4 Add.
Sprinkle cheese evenly Add the vegetables to make
over the sauce. your own rainbow.
Adult: Bake for 8–10 minutes.

What vegetables did you add to your pizza? Show us at Highlights.com/HighFive.

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 Move It! Art by Victor Medina

Lava Jump

vo lca no is
The p th ree
J um
rumbling! a row!
times in

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 Art by Caroline Dittmann Whoops!

Feathered Friends

Parrot Toucan

Painted Bunting Parakeet-cat?

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