Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

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

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.