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

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.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Multiplication facts are a necessary skill, and this board game provides a fun way for your third grader to practice them!

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

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

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

This experiment explores how listening in to a one-sided conversation affects concentration.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

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

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

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.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

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

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

After the party and presents, there's just one more thing for your child to do: thank you notes!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.