Elementary School Common Core Activities : Page 2

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master their multiplication tables.

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

Making metric conversions is a difficult concept to master. Get in some extra practice by playing this Tic-Tac-Toe game with your learner.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

This game is the perfect way to prepare your child for any shopping adventures you may embark upon, all while practicing important math concepts.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Your fourth grader will love practicing his math facts with this fun computation game.

Take paper football to the next level by creating a "field" with objects from around the house. A great indoor and rainy-day activity.

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.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

Learning to count can be pretty tough. Have your child play this game with you or a friend and watch her quickly become a master counter.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.