In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

While kids learn when they can see or hear, they learn better when they can touch, too! Get your preschooler's fingers walking the alphabet today!

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to explore which brands of "anti-fade" shampoos work the best to keep hair color looking fresh.

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

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

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Discover whether cheap saline solution bottle cleans and disinfects just as well as more expensive kinds formulated with different ingredients.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Creating a family newspaper is a great way to teach your child the characteristics of a newspaper article, give him or her some excellent writing practice.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!