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Reading Activities
4 Verse My Dragon 30 Craft Pompom Ice Pops
5 The Adventures of Spot 32 Recipe Dad’s Homemade Ketchup
Splinter Meets a Bee
34 Move It! Ball Toss
6 Tex and Indi Kitty Helpers

12 Nonfiction Our Lemon Tree Join the fun!

20 Fiction Char m, the Fancy Horse HighlightsForChildren
HighlightsForChildren
26 English and Spanish Highlights
Doña Rosa Has a Cold

35 Nonfiction: What’s This?

Bearded Dragon

Puzzles
10 My First Hidden Pictures
Miniature Golf

16 Look and Look Again

Ice-Cream Animal Friends

18 That’s Silly! Time to Splash

24 Poem Puzzle
Making Raspberry Pie

36 Back Cover Match the Objects

Play a board
game with Charrm!
 Verse

My Dragon
By Elizabeth Steinglass ⋆ Art by Richard Watson

She doesn’t have wings.

She doesn’t eat kings.
She doesn’t belong to a wizard.

She doesn’t breathe fire

or roost on a spire.
My dragon’s a sweet bearded lizard.

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 The Adventures of Spot

SPLINTER MEETS A BEE Episode #162

By Marileta Robinson  Art by Ron Zalme

Splinter sees a bee. Where is it going?

Splinter is curious. The bee flies to a tree.

Splinter wants a closer look. Well—maybe not.

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Tex and Indi

Kitty Helpers By Lissa Rovetch  Art by Amy Wummer

“I have a favor to ask,” said Arizona to Tex and Indi. “Would

you do my kitty chores while I’m at camp this week?”
“Sure,” said Tex. “I’ll feed Charlie and Cow and give them
lots of snuggles.”
“I’ll make sure they have water,” said Indi. “And I can play
with them a bunch.”
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 Tex and Indi and the kitties had an extra-busy week.
“Silly Cow!” laughed Tex. “You’re supposed to eat this
yummy food, not dig in the plants.”
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 “Good one,” Indi cheered, as Charlie proudly
pounced on his catnip ball. “Can you catch the
feather on the end of this string?”

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 “Thanks for being fantastic helpers!” said Arizona when
she got home. “I made these friendship bracelets for you.”
As she was tying one on Tex’s wrist, Cow knocked Indi’s
bracelet off the table. Then Charlie batted it across the floor.
“Silly kitties,” said Indi. “That’s not your toy.”
“Well, Arizona,” giggled Tex, “maybe next summer you
should make four bracelets instead of two!”

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 Waffle Toothbrush Slice of Pizza Pencil Crown

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Find the objects hidden in the picture!

Can you
find this bat
on the back
Banana Ruler Sailboat Bat cover?

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 Nonfiction

Our
Lemon
Tree By Laura Straut  Art by Tjarda Borsboom

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 A lemon tree is growing in our yard. Its trunk
is strong and brown. Its leaves are shiny green.
We are careful around the lemon tree because
there are sharp thorns along its branches.

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 In spring, the tree starts
to bloom. The flowers
are bright white. They
smell so sweet that many
insects and animals
come to the tree. Bees
and butterflies go from
flower to flower. They
spread pollen and help
the blooms become fruit.

Months go by. The

flowers are gone. Instead,
round green fruit dangles
from the branches.
The hardest part is being
patient and waiting for the
fruit to change from green
to bright sunny yellow.

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 Once the fruit is yellow, we pick it. Lemons are
tart, but we like to eat them. Our lips pucker, and we
laugh as we enjoy the sour treat. Our favorite thing
to do is to juice the lemons and make lemonade.
Thank you, tree!
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 Look and Look Again Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

Ice-Cream

How are these pictures the same?

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Animal Friends

How are they different?

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 That’s Silly! Art by Paula J. Becker

Time to

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Splash What silly things
do you see?

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Fiction By Marie Agerton  Art by Luke Flowers

C H A R M
th e Fan cy H orse
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One day, I was looking for a horse to ride into town.
I certainly couldn’t walk; it was a long way down.

So, I went to my neighbor who had horses on his farm.

And with a smile, he offered his fancy horse, Charm.

Charm was not like the other horses, quiet and plain.
She had big fluffy curls and glitter in her mane.

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 I tried to climb on her while
she drank from the trough,
but she neighed and swayed
and bucked me right off.

Then do you know what that

fancy horse did?

Play a
board game
with Charm!
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She stomped her hoof and hopped into the cart.
She nodded at me like it was time to start.

What was I to do? What was I to say?

Charm clicked her tongue, and we were slowly on our way.
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 Poem Puzzle
The pictures are mixed up.

Making
Raspberry
Pie
By Jennifer Mugrage  Art by Erica Sirotich

These are the berries that we pick.

Be careful of the thor ns.

This is the way we measure out

The shortening and the flour.

This is the way we roll the dough

To make the crust for pie.

This is the sugar that we mix

With berries for the pie.

This is the way we let it bake:

For an hour in the oven.

This is the way we let it cool—

And then it’s time to eat.

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Use the poem to decide what order the pictures should be in.

n t :TTh
h , nee
t . r r
raccoon family with parent and a child
doing all the action. Child’s gender should
be opposite of the child in the recipe.

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 English and Spanish

Doña Rosa
Has a
Cold
By Ana Galán ⋆ Art by Violet Lemay ⋆ Pronunciation by Linda Elman, Ph.D.

Doña Rosa wasn’t feeling well, so she

went to see the doctor.
“What hurts?” asked the doctor.
“Mi cabeza,” said Doña Rosa.
The doctor examined Doña Rosa’s head.

Mi cabeza.
mee kah-BEH-sah
My head.

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 “What else hurts?”
asked the doctor.
“Mi garganta,” said
Doña Rosa.
The doctor examined
Doña Rosa’s throat.

Mi garganta.
mee gahr-GAHN-tah
My throat.

Then the doctor used

her stethoscope to listen
to Doña Rosa’s heart
and lungs.
“You have a cold,” said
the doctor. “Drink lots of
water. Get some rest. In
a few days, you will feel
much better.”
“Gracias, doctora,”
said Doña Rosa.

Gracias, doctora.
GRAH-see-ahs
dohk-TOH-rah
Thank you, doctor.

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 A few days later, Mary and Lucy
Mucho mejor.
stopped by Doña Rosa’s house.
MOO-choh meh-HOHR
“How are you feeling today?” Much better.
asked Mary.
“Mucho mejor,” said Doña Rosa.
“Great,” said Lucy. “There’s a new ¡Vamos!
pond you need to explore with us.” VAH-mohss
“¡Vamos!” said Doña Rosa. Let’s go!

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 Craft By Lisa Glover  Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

Pompom
ICE POPS
YOU NEED: Craft paper, craft sticks, pompoms, double-sided tape

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 1 Cut. 2 Tape. 3 Press.
Cut an ice-pop shape Tape the cardstock to a Press pompoms onto
out of cardstock. craft stick. Add tape. the tape.

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 Recipe By Katie Borne  Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

H om e m ad e
Dad’s

Ketchup
You Need
 ½ cup tomato
paste
 3 tablespoons
white vinegar
 2 tablespoons
maple syrup
 ¼ teaspoon salt
 ¼ teaspoon
allspice

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 WASH
YOUR
S.
H A ND

1 Whisk.

Whisk together tomato

paste, vinegar, and syrup.

2 Add.

Add salt and allspice. Stir.

Put your ketchup in
a jar for Dad!
 Move It! Photos by Jim Filipski, Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

Ball Toss
Throw a ball in the air.
Try to catch it.

How high can you throw it?

Can you give the
ball a little throw?

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 By Taylor Clifton What’s This?

Bearded Dragon
Bearded dragons
bob their heads to
communicate.
These lizards live in
warm, dry areas.

Bearded
dragons can also
Bearded dragons eat beetles, communicate
flowers, fruit, and sometimes through their
small rodents. beards. They puff
out their beards or
change their color.

How do you use your

body to communicate?

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