Here's a fun activity to get your kindergarten child to listen to beginning alphabet sounds and match them with their letter symbols.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This project compares test subjects' responses to whining and other "attachment" and attention-getting sounds to determine which sounds are most distracting.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Your beginning teen baker will enjoy the tactile experience of baking this challah bread. It's deceptively simple to make!

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

Promote the well-being of your first or second grader's mind and body by teaching him some beginning yoga poses and techniques.

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Make these homemade friendship pencils for a party or the beginning of school and have a stylish writing utensil that kids will love trading.

This experiment investigates whether there are certain sounds that affect men and women differently

Your first grader will love making her favorite feline a chase toy out of old fabric scraps, and she will learn beginning sewing basics while she's at it!

This science fair project idea produces sounds by creating vibrations using different objects.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Your kindergartener will improve his fine motor skills and learn beginning baking techniques as he helps you concoct this crumbly apple dessert!

Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Demonstrate how we are able to locate sounds, echolocation. Have a blindfolded subject locate you by the sound of your clapping.

In this activity, your child will take a walk outside, listen to the silence in between sounds, and draw what the experience was like for them.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.