How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

This activity will have your child learning about dependent and independent clauses, not to mention the punctuation that goes in the middle.

Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.

Confused about clauses? Get the concept to stick by helping your middle schooler make mix-and-match poetry dice filled with independent and dependent clauses.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Study the anatomy of the brain and the functions of the corpus callosum. Research split brain surgery and its impact on advances in neuroscience.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

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

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Test products which claim to reduce wrinkles, and determine which is the most effective. Test effectiveness over three weeks, using a sample of volunteers.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.